Last time I ordered from Convoy a 14500 cell, I got it with around it a cheap flashlight, that promptly my son made smoke inverting the polarity.
Well, I opened it, and one day while browsing the convoy-light website I took some measures of the host. Well, everything in a T2/3/5 would fit, my only doubt at this point is the heat management. This host is really small, with thin walls, but exactly for this reason very very pocketable.
What do you think?
It was to make an EDC light, nothing super bright, just a flashlight with a nice CCT and good CRI.
Any insight please?
Oh, another thing: how do I lock the switch and the driver? Do I have to lock them at all?
If you’re referring to one of the Convoy lights with the mechanical tail switch they do not lock, your only option is to loosen the tail-cap slightly. Note that this only works on lights with anodised threads.
Travelling at the moment, I brought the empty host (just a tube) with me and it’s somewhere in a luggage. Will take a few photos once at destination.
The description, I can do that now: it has a lip on the head to retain the glass, and one on the tail to retain the switch. Everything was very tight, I struggled to take everything out.
I guess that I will have to try…
My only real concern was heat, but in the end I will just use an SFT-40 in 3000k, probably with a NiMh cell, if it’s not too dim.
I was thinking about this, is the anodization somehow isolating, then? There is a closed circuit only when at full lock, where the face of the tube can have contact with its stop point on the tail cap, supposedly both in bare aluminium?
I don’t have my broken C8 here to check it out
Thanks for the pics. I think it’s going to be a longshot for anyone to give you specific help without them having the pieces in-hand. Generally, you will need to make electrical contact where it should be, avoid it where it shouldn’t be, and ensure everything is secure.
Like I said, it can be very challening to fit components into hosts that aren’t made for them (I’m struggling with that on a few of my build ideas right now). Good luck!
Ehh…you’d probably benefit from making a copper slug or engine to press fit up in there. I don’t think these potato chip lights were meant to be EDC’d…the dimensions aren’t exactly that slim, and it’s not exactly short…**It might be light, but even with a metal pill or slug trying to heatsink it would defeat the intent…
