The group buy mods that were sent to me for modding are turning out great. Very nice tight beam, all kinds of throw. It’s not that impressive until you get out where you can really see a good long distance. The smaller hotspot gets a chance to open up and Boom lot’s of light for a good long ways.
I have one stock light to compare them with in this size and it’s the Lightmalls XM-L2 C12 that I am very happy with and left stock, it’s supposed to have a high amp driver.
The throw on the modded C10’s is well over 3 times as far, almost 4 times.
I should have them all ready to ship out by Monday.
Glad the C10 custom builds are working out. My son and I were bummed that the group buy didn’t work out for us, but he still got to build his first light (a Convoy C8).
I think it was $24 and that included shipping on my end as well. Yep Nanjg 8 chip three modes, de-domed XP-G2 on a sinkpad.
A couple of very nice people kicked in some cash so I didn’t lose much if anything after all is said and done I should be at even and that was what I was hoping for. I am just happy they are turning out so well and that the hot spot is as nice as it is. It’s not tiny like on the jacobs. it’s bigger than that but very well defined and at it’s best distance lights up a nice size area very well. It will out throw a stock ZY-T08 by a lot.
Size wise it’s about the same as a C8 the reflector seems a little deeper is about it.
Not to keep griping but this was the worst packaging I have ever seen when I got it. Each of the boxes they came in were smashed. They were all jammed into one large envelope, not a box, one big envelope and not a good one with extra padding or anything. On top of that the drivers and emitters were just floating around inside that. They were in their own little individual bags but other than that they were just loose. It was only short one emitter so that wasn’t too bad. I ordered extras of course, just because with de-doming and drivers being what they are I am bound to lose a few while I do this.
I just finished up four of them and I’m done modding for the night.
The hardest part is getting the emitters centered perfectly and the drivers to fit in correctly. They are loose but there is a brass ring that you press down to kinda pinch it in place. Well that brass ring doesn’t fit correctly and there really isn’t enough room left after the driver is in place. I got them all to work but it takes a hammer and some cussing.
They are not quite that high because it’s only 2.8amps. I’m not modding the drivers. This way it’s a nice reliable light and with the sinkpad the lumens won’t drop off from lack of heatsinking. They actually get warm fast as it is.
2.8A on a copper star…probably very close to 900 if not higher
Pushing a XM-L2 at almost 3A is reaaaaly making it burn bright, note on burn
(without that copper star to soak that heat and push it to the aluminum pill…they get reaaaly hot really fast
It’s right at 600 lumens OTF just a tad short. I have gotten 900 lumens out of a XP-G2 but that is with about 5amps. My J-19 triple XP-G2 gets 2,700 lumens and 350kcd.
Keep in mind the J-19 has massive heatsinking and can handle 5amps without smoking the emitters. You could run a C-10 at 5amps if you can get it from a single battery, but not for long that’s for sure. High would be for turbo only.
the c10 is similiar to a c8 right? i remember there were some that was able to mod the convoy c8 with dedomed xml2 that reached about 110kcd and prolly 1000 lumens.
c10 dedomed xpg2 gets 125kcd and 600 lumens…so wouldnt xml2 be the better route?
unless when you get them 5amp drivers delivered and are able to squeeze them in the c10, then now thats a whole notha level there….200kcd and 900 lumens….yeaaah!
Yes it’s about the size of a C8. What I wanted to do was build a reliable light that a person could use on high for as long as they wanted to without it losing it’s output to thermal sag. A XP-G2 on copper at 2.8 is going to stay up there for a good long time and it will also have good run times.
I built a 501b a while back with an XP-G2 direct drive. It was cool but only good for a minute or two before it lost it’s throw due to thermal sag. Although I could do better now that I’m getting better with thermal management. Still there is only so much you can do with a smaller light.
Hmm, this seems fast. I didn’t think the items would arrive by now.
Maybe my perception is off though, since the last few items I ordered took anywhere from 2 months to 5 months to show up… and I’m still waiting on one from January.
I received mine today, and I’m pretty pleased with it. I won’t have time for a full review today, but I can at least say it’s really unfortunate that more people didn’t get to participate due to FastTech’s issues.
The light looks a lot like a C8 with a slightly different skin. The C10 host has a few rough edges, but nothing unexpected for such an inexpensive host.
The really interesting part is that it has a de-domed XP-G2 inside instead of a XM-L2, and some other improvements like a copper-braided tail spring. It’s made to throw, and throw it does. It looks a lot more intense than my XinTD C8, with a tighter hot spot.
And by some strange luck, the lux meter I ordered showed up today too. I haven’t had time to really calibrate anything yet, but I took some readings anyway.
At 1m, I saw lux readings of:
~32k cd, XinTD C8
~66k cd, BLF C10
Measured at 2m, the readings were:
35.0k cd, XinTD C8
76.4k cd, BLF C10
I might still be too close to the sensor, and I haven’t even glanced at the meter’s instructions or attempted any calibration. In any case, I’ll be having fun with this tonight.
