fasttech sent me a s4 without a pill, anyone know where i can pick one up, preferably in the states. ive waited 4 weeks for this, i would rather pay a few bucks for a pill then send it back to them and wait another month for a replacement.
Let me see what I have—I know I have lots of S2+ pills —the S4 pill looks very short —wondering if the short S2 pill will work—might have an extra one of those
i vaguely remember reading that someone else had this issue with the s4 from fasttech, but i cant seem to find the thread now. don’t know if they ever figured out where to get one from either. this seems like something convoy would sell seperately but i don’t see it on their aliexpress site.
You can buy an entire host from here. Maybe he has an extra pill that he’ll sell you.
The only thing I can tell you—ask Richard at MtnE if the short S2 pill is the same as the S4—hopefully the host female threads aren’t like the S6—they are oddball the S6 pill threads in a S2 but not vica versa
i swear, when i find one, im making a 3d model and drawing of it and posting it here. maybe that will help someone in the future. maybe ill do the same for the s2+ i have on its way to me. with how popular these lights are, im surprised that there aren’t pills available to swap in kind of like a drop in.
From what I can see from pictures—the S2+ pill will be too long—The S2+ has a short reflector—The S2 has the long reflector like the S4—I have spares of both of these pills — just not sure if the threads are the same—I bet I have 10 spare S2+ pills- I build triples with a custom copper pill
from a production standpoint, you would think they would make all the pills the same across the S line, and adjust the body length to make up for the different reflector lengths. or at least as a designer that’s what i would do…. either way i will make drawings and post them for anyone interested.
Actually I think it's cheaper to use the same production host and make the reflector shallower to make room for fitting a heavier pill (like they did in the S2+). I'd love to see some drawings of the internals for comparison if nothing else
if they would have went with a heavy pill and just tweaked the head or body length(body tube would be an easy one to do) they could have mass ordered the pills and save a large amount of money. that said i haven’t seen the full range of the convoy s series lights but im under the assumption they are all close in length with the adjustments inside the head(pill reflector glass combination.