The best C8 is a Convoy L4 
To be honest - I hate the L4.
It’s a nice light - but 2 switches?!
I want one seitch to turn it on and off and to change the modes - not 2.
The C8 in grey is just another league for me.
Ouch, grey C8 is no longer listed in Simon's store. I better buy one soon before it becomes limited.
ThorFire has a driver option for the C8 that has a moonlight mode and no disco inferno modes. High/Mid/Low/Moonlight with memory
Thorfire also has a removable pill, I believe Convoy has gone away from that. It is harder to adjust for modding without a removable pill….
Richard says otherwise:
In general I prefer the driver in the Thorfire, but they seem to be less powerful than the 3A Qlites in the Convoys. I have only been able to get ~ 2.2A out of it. Perhaps they can be resistor modded, but I’m not sure.
Its much better if you use the extension tube, then it make sense.
I choose Convoy because you can select the LED tint.
Is that the buck driver, 3 + 5 Mode driver or the 4 mode driver?
I’d go with thorfire for moonlight
sadly I’ve already owned a convoy before thorfire came out to my view
That’s definitely thing I like most about the driver Thorfire is using…it’s a true firefly mode.
Maybe you can do resistor mod on the Thorfire’s buck driver, but the maximum current that you can achieve with a single 18650 is still quite limited due to the limited input voltage that a single 18650 can provide to overcome the high resistance of the inductor. If you want to achieve high current for a single 18650 and a single LED setup the best way is to use a linear driver IMO, which could be the common Nanjg-105C or even better with some FET based linear drivers.
Thank you for this! I didn’t know that.
Well nuts, I should have ordered more a few months ago…
Maybe the ones Amazon has in stock to fulfill are still old stock with screw in pills?
I got the Thorfire C8 with the 5/3 mode a while back off Amazon and it has a regular pill.
It is my understanding that when they went to the 4 mode with no strobes that the integrated shelf came into play.
That is not to say there are not 4 modes models with a screw out pill, anything is possible.
Real nice light for the money.
Have enough other lights with firefly, so no big deal.
It’s nice for the folks that can’t solder, flash their own drivers or where ordering a driver from RMM would be cost prohibitive because of shipping to be able to have moonlight mode in their flashlights.
The Thorfire's modes are just about perfect, but man that driver is noisy in the middle two modes (I have the 4 mode version). Am I the only one who can hear it? I can hear some of the fast PWM 7135 and FET drivers in the middle modes (you're hearing the springs and capacitors resonate), but this is louder than those.
I have a XinTD C8 V4 with the Qlite driver from IOS which I can hear the noise in Medium mode in my right ear, but I can’t hear it in my left ear, funny isn’t it?
Thorfires typically don’t have removable drivers, whereas most Convoys use the venerable and programmable 105C driver.
I own several Thorfires (not the C8), and the Convoys i own are superior