New Convoy C8 – Clearly better

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LOL

Man I hope we can, or like one of these. It appears we need it. (aimed in the same direction)

I wish I had some of these for people at work :slight_smile:

Should the diagram say Enter the last used mode or something like that, instead of “Enter into next mode” after the flashlight is turned on?

Awesome! Does anyone know if the Olight WM10 mount offset is sufficient to clear the rail with the relatively large C8 head?







Btw, I would love to see a Chinese manufacturer make a minimalistic mount like this Gear Sector ($72.95):



Perhaps a more important question is why you would want a thrower mounted on a bike instead of a flooder. Maybe it’s mounted in addition to a flooder?

The Olight WM10 is an AR-15 rifle mount, not a bike mount :slight_smile:

Love the new C8! will order it soon, sending big thanks to the users who made this a reality! cool product!

As I saw the components are the same as the old driver.
Is there any changes in schematics on PCB or it is absolutely same as old one.
Sorry about my novice question.

It will be nice, but do not belive it is possible. Even 90k is difficult with this reflector size.
Actually I have two moded flashlight with XP-G2 diode. Convoy C8 has 160k and Eagle Eye X6 has 110k candela.

Driver is absolutely same as old one except red color :slight_smile:

New firmware works perfect on old drivers.

Driver 105D, 6 * 7135 (2.1 A) in Convoy S2+, XM L2 U2 1B with fresh battery:

Level——-Current
0.1% - - - 4 mA (0.24%)
1% - - - 33 mA (1.59%)
10% - - - 266 mA (12,85%)
35% - - - 911 mA (44.00%)
50% - - - 1005 mA (48.55%)
100% - - - 2070 mA (100%)

Level 35% is too high IMO.

Perhaps the 35 and 50 work out too close together on paper, but this is a good reason there isn’t a grouping that has 35 and 50 in it at the same time. 50% was a half power option for those wishing to have decent output with low heat and prolonged cell life. Tit for tat, as it were. 35% fills the bill in spacing where more modes are being used.

In the C8 where I added 5 chips to the driver, 35% yields 662 lumens where 50% yeilds 693 lumens. So the output is quite close, but the 35% is used as a half step between other modes in the groups it’s used in. The target was to be more pleasing to the eye in the size of the step. It is, after all, the end result that really matters regardless of the particular numbers used in getting there. :wink:

I explored all available corners, no light there, got bored.
May I return to conversation now?
I want to ask something related to this constatation:

just one question, thats all.!!!

I say go for it Hunter…… :+1: ……… :slight_smile:

> SOS mode. Silly survivalists. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

No kidding. Back in the 1970s, I talked with a real lotsa-guns-and-crap guy, I asked him what his plan was for the coming pocalips.

He said he knew every house in the county owned by people who had stored up a year’s worth of supplies, and he could live off them for decades.

He also said “SOS” means “Steal Our Stuff” — as in “c’mon, I”m incapacitated.”

Kind of a flaky guy. Fortunately, once I showed him I could outshoot him with his own Colt .45, he decided we should be friends.

OK, here I go….

So basically respected and honored author of this firmware did it as a fun project free of charge (that’s how I understood his post, I may be wrong thou, english is not my native language)!

and Wildcat confirmed that hardware is identical (color is not important at this time)

(this sounds to me more like a confirmation than estimation!).
Finally, question: Is this fw available for download in hex format (really important is that it does not lock mcu for future flashing) or as a code (AVR Studio will chew that up and spit hex file) so I could try out this new fw and decide if I like it or not I am indifferent?

Hey Hunter,

Yes, ToyKeeper did this at my request for Convoy for which Simon and I are both extremely thankful.

ToyKeeper’s work is open source meaning free for all to use and yes the hex code is downloadable as well.

The hardware is certainly very similar if not identical aside from the color which was changed mostly to distinguish which drivers have the new firmware already loaded. None of us have the new driver quite yet so I can’t say with 100% certainty that it will be completely identical but if there are changes they will be very small I’d imagine. This firmware should work on many Attiny13a/7135 based drivers including almost all of Simon’s older drivers.

You can download it at anytime through Toykeepers firmware repository.

ToyKeeper has now officially named the firmware biscotti and the link is here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~toykeeper/flashlight-firmware/trunk/files/head:/ToyKeeper/bistro/biscotti/

I’ll also add the link to post #2 of this thread which is all about the firmware.

Am I the only one that wants something in between 3A and 7A for a tint? 4 would be good, maybe 5.

And so you know, ToyKeeper is a very smart and beautiful woman. :wink:

She has changed our flashlight world, without a doubt. I, for one, would have already quit this if it weren’t for the A6, Bistro and now Bistro-mini firmware she so freely shares with us. I also have a few others of her design that I enjoy immensely too.

Thank You TK! :smiley: