With our help, he may soon be branching out to Automobiles and lunar landings. 
hahahahaha
Seriously though, give someone with ambition a leg up and there’s no telling what they’re capable of. So getting some direction and the right, ahem, perspectives, Convoy can very well be the running brand to beat in 2016. :bigsmile:
Dale said: “Convoy can very well be the running brand to beat in 2016.”
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YES!
Simon! - Keep your Quality like it is now, and your Innovation like you are now doing , and at least for me, Convoy will be #1 for 2016!
Thanks!
-Chuck
I’ll never use glass again, well not in my prized lights! Drop a maxed out TK61 666kcd and have the glass take out your reflector just once! Chris at flashlightlens, made some UCLp for the TK61 and JAX X6 upon request!!! Fenix sent me a NEW reflector after running my serial number and hearing my heartbreaking story!! :bigsmile:
:bigsmile: I like your perspective there buddy :bigsmile:
I’ve just received my first of (2) L2s ordered from banggood. Love the look and feel of this thing. What a tiny hot spot. I haven’t taken this thing outside yet, but I bet it goes forever.
Unfortunately, I have two fairly major issues with my example. My lens is covered in cloudy spots, and the reflector has several prominent imperfections/bubbles in the surface. I’m planning on giving this light away to a non flashaholic who probably won’t notice these things too much, however if I were keeping this light for myself I would be very disappointed.
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I took this lens out and genty wiped it down with isopropyl alcohol, and when that didn’t work, once again with Windex. (using microfiber cloth both times). These tiny little cloudy marks persisted. I’m not sure if there is something stronger I can try, any suggestions?
This is a bit harder to photograph. The reflector has two small imperfections right next to eachother, seen in the center of this picture. Not a deal breaker, but certainly sloppy QA.
Are these issues worth contacting Simon about? Would he provide support for a light purchased through a third party (banggood)? I don’t really feel like dealing with banggood about this.
Fingers crossed that my next L2 comes flawless.
To clean lenses I usually take the lens to the sink (warm water), wash hands thoroughly, rinse lens, lather hands with soap, gently wash lens with soapy hands, rinse, dry with a lens cloth. A good plain glass lens is pretty tough to scratch thankfully.
I would guess that Simon would send replacement reflector/lens if you requested it. I believe he did a month or so ago for a similar issue.
You guys are making me nervous. My L2 host just shipped from Banggod’s US warehouse… I really hope the host isn’t plagued with these issues as well.
I’ll tune in to see what happens with yours, Sciencetists. Hopefully it can be remedied quickly.
The simple solution to the spotted lens and slight imperfections in the reflector is to turn the light on in Turbo, look into it, Voila! No more tiny spots on the lens! No more noticeable imperfections on the reflector! (the big purple and green spot in front of everything should clear in 10-20 minutes, by which time you won’t give a carp about those tiny spots on the glass.) 
[maybe you should follow unknown00101’s schematic on glass cleaning, probably safer, just don’t try the same thing on the reflector. Well, ok, you can, but blow dry it with the hair dryer after a filtered water rinse, don’t wipe it with microfiber or anything else or you’ll have to look into turbo again.]
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No kidding - You really know what you are doing!
I have an optical background, and to the the every-day man, “washing” a lens in your bare hands with your fingers has got to seem preposterous!
Not So!
Your Clean fingers give tactile feedback ‘at once’, alerting you to danger, where you could be dragging a piece of grit all around without knowledge, if your only contact is a tissue of some sort, this will Not be the case.
Please have a look at this excerpt from the maker of one of the most high end telescopes in the USA: - (Astro-Physics):
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“Lens Cleaning Formula
To make 16 oz. of solution:
3 parts distilled H2O
1 part Isopropyl alcohol (90%+)
1 drop biodegradable dish soap (backpacking)
We recommend the following procedure, if you must clean:
Please take note of step #3.
This man makes telescopes that are very expensive, and certainly nothing that I can afford - Damn it!
He’s getting up in years, so he is offering less now. - I see that he is now offering only one Refractor… A 5” scope, and it is $6,700.
http://www.astro-physics.com/tech_support/refractors/Care%20of%20Scope%20Instructions-9-4-2014.pdf
But back in his heyday he offered ‘better’, well if not better, at least Bigger - He would never compromise quality for any reason at all.
These scopes are the Finest that money can buy, and his instructions for ‘lens’ cleaning should suffice for us too!
Thanks for reading,
-Chuck
I tried your turbo method, thank you! It fixed the splotches on the light, and made it much easier to look at the girlfriend as well!
I’ve also tried soaking in vinagar, washing with dish soap, cleaning with bbq starter fluid, and rubbing it down with toothpaste. Nothing had much of an effect.
Now this made me smile. I’ve been doing this for years with certain lenses just because I tried it once in my younger years and it just seemed right. I could feel if there was something stuck on the lens and I knew I had to carefully remove that gunk. For the record I am not responsible for any damage that may occur if you don’t do it exactly the way I did which I will not describe for liability reasons but can I have my honorary degree in astrophysics now?
“but can I have my honorary degree in astrophysics now?”
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. You May!
-Chuck
Clean the glass with a lens pen, works like a charm and is safe for coated glass. I’ve also used an ultrasonic cleaner to remove heavy dirt on a glass lens but this should not be done with AR coated glass as it will strip the coating.
Just for the record, Chris at flashlightlens.com has made this size for Tom E in his UCLp acrylic lens, it’s one of the best AR coatings I’ve ever seen, literally, you can lay it on a sheet of white typing paper and it virtually disappears! Even on the big lights, like the SR-90 Intimidator, it looks like there’s not a lens present at all.
I need to get a couple for the L2 size as well as a few other lights I’ve acquired recently. I pretty much always put these on favored lights, it’s the next step to a full mod and I’ve seen a $7 lens make a 27Kcd output increase. Yes, I’m serious! Throw the spots in the parts bin and go with an Ultra Clear Lens (plastic) [UCLp] from flashlightlens.com, you won’t regret it.
(the lens comes protected from flashlightlens.com, it’ll have a blue plastic layer on each side, carefully pull these off without touching the lens leaving one side attached slightly to allow you to place it in the light. You’ll have a totally crystal clear lens that will defy you to see it! 
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Edit: I usually place the 2 blue discs onto the glass lens being replaced, write on this blue protection layer what light it came out of, the size if you desire, and the date, then toss it in the bin. Might come in handy some day if a lens ever gets busted. I’ve got a box full of glass lenses I’ve replaced, probably, gulp, 30 or more. (now I’m gonna have to count em, might not really want to know)
Simon will be making extra AR coated lenses for the L2 that will be available in the Convoy store for those who want to upgrade the lens in their original L2. I’ll post here when they are available.
This is good news.
Thank you in advance! :party:
AR lens we can manage m8, the one thing that is important here are side /tail buttons, it would be realy great for us to have a Convoy quality 2 button host
The L6 will be available as a complete light and in host form for those who want to take it further but the preliminary stock specs are impressive. Convoy L6... XHP70 Beast! There ya go m8!
Do we know what the L6 head diameter will be? Same as L2, or bigger?
Same! Interchangeable reflectors, difference being big emitter hole/ little emitter hole
