I have said NO to the Convoy L4 for several days now! NO NO NO. Yea, I want one BUT …. I have several C8s already. It’s a great light, at a great price, and they have sold like 50 of them to us. I’m still saying NO! I even filled out the website order page and put in the coupon code, but closed the page before ordering it , that’s the secret!
I want the Niwalker Nova MM15 for $220, over 5000 lumens! Hoo-yah!
Got the STL-V6 a couple of months back from Lightscastle for the same price. So this isn’t a special deal it seems.
Still it’s a great price for the light. The STL-V6 is a decent quality light which can be modded to throw like crazy. I do have most of the parts in, but don’t have the time yet to mod it.
The others are very nice except for the worst centering ring I've ever seen, opaque black, 3.5mm high. I replaced it with one of the clear ones from FastTech and output apparently doubled.
I got the Smiling Shark ones from BG awhile ago, which I think are the same. On mine, the pill just screws out from the battery end of the head. There are two holes in the driver that I can use with tweezers to unscrew it.
Thanks, I tried that yesterday, couldn't budge it. No sign of glue as far as I can see. From the front, the shelf the LED sits on unscrews a bit until it feels like the LED leads are twisting up preventing removal. I'm guessing the driver or contact board it press fit, the shelf portion is screwed in, then the LED is dropped in and soldered.
i got mine some days ago.
i liked the looks, size and style of the 502B
the 3-mode AA flashlight felt nice as well, and the 16340 was so-so. the centering ring was awful, created a dark halo around the hotspot. so i cut it down and the results got better.
i have 3 similar 16340 flashlights bought from banggood earlier. The first one that i got had a nice NW tint, so i bought a couple more. unfortunately one had a greenish tint, and the other a violet tint. i changed one of them to a xp-e just for fun, and the other one should also be modded into something better when i have inspiration/parts/time.