Okay cool i will search now thanks for your help.
I have a least a half dozen Convoys in assorted models, and none have ever looked like that.
I’m betting somebody bought one, did some crude and amateurish ‘mods’ and then decided to return it - and it got inadvertently resold to the OP.
Every one of mine has been of a quality that exceeded the price by a wide margin. I’ve bought from FastTech and Intl-Outdoors as well as from Simon. All have been excellent.
There was a period that Simon admitted that their QC wasn’t great (due to an intern I think?) So there’s the small possibility that they are “genuine” but maybe they’re Gearbest’s leftovers from a bad batch that Simon stopped selling?
A search for “Gearbest fake S2+” will certainly give you what to look for.
As noted in the What Legos With What thread
Yeah, there was a little while there that QC slipped — but, definitely, there were badly put together lights coming from 3rd party sources — solder over retaining rings, solder instead of retaining rings for example, on lights sold as bargains by resellers.
My impression is that problem is in the past, though some lights will be coming from resellers. I hope so.
It’s a very precarious position to be in, a small business that becomes popular and tries to grow bigger.
I recently puchased 3 S2+’s
1 from Gearbest
1 from Simon
1 from Mountain Electronics
They all look identical, and high quality
I also bought a S2+ Nichia UV from Gearbest. It looks like a different driver with a tapered spring. Still very decent quality.
Think I have 6 Convoy’s now. All were bought as Hosts. No complaints on build quality.
Wish you had posted pics as it was received, not after you made changes.
I had two old pill style C8-s, three new C8 hosts, an old S2+ black, a red and a green S2+ , a grey S2+, L2 host, and an L6.
All af them was perfect except for the grey S2+ when I unscrewed the pill the thermal glue released the led star and the L6’s tailswitch is half soldered. Grey S2+ from gearbest. I bought it about 2 months ago when it was 10$ and the L6 is from banggood.
L6 switch:
At all I’m happy with Convoy products overall quality. I have seen worse a lot for same prices.
Some thermal paste’s will allow the star to lift with stiff wires, it’s not a defect as it was working before you disassembled it.
“Half soldered” is a deceptive statement. The solder is making the contact, the switch works, it isn’t going anywhere, therefore there is no problem there either.
No big deal. I soldered the switch in a second but when an L6 have spring bypass and 5A current I think it need to do better than it have a little contact. And as I said I like Convoy because I have many and I ordered a lot for my friends and none of them reported any issues. :+1:
I like to do a through-board bypass when a light has 5A or more, by routing a 22ga or 20ga Turnigy lead from the switch to the top of the spring it makes sure there’s plenty of current capability and relieves the spring of the heat that could collapse it. Normally not really a problem at 5A, but if the light is used for prolonged periods it could still heat up the spring. I pulled the forward clicky in favor of a reverse clicky in my L6’s and L2. Personal preference I know, but it just seemed a little safer to have to make a full click to power it up, and since I have no clue how to signal anything the momentary feature of the forward clicky was lost on me anyway…