Yep! Why I have one on my gun. The driver squeals a bit, but it puts out a LOT of light for it’s size and in my tests it holds turbo mode as long as the battery has the juice to keep it there. The throw WILL surprise you too.
However… IF one is wanting to build a C8 light for a gun (my need), they might look at the C8F host kit from Sofirn (for a very good price/performance project). Here is a post with great info! (- Dale is da’man!)
I have two C8F Sofirn hosts on order and SIX XP-L2 LEDs ready to be flowed and de-domed to make a matching pair of these lights. I’m also using Lexel’s Narsil drivers (AND his FET tail switch board too… of course!). So these will replace my C8.2 on my hunting gun as soon as I get the parts in and a few days to build them all up.
I could have gone the XPL HI route easier (no de-doming), but I’m going to see how it runs doing it this way (the hard way… like always :disappointed: ). AND YES (Long Throw)… I know there are longer throwers out there— but you’re going to pay for them and they get big FAST too! In any case, I’ll get about as much output from a C8 as I can while keeping cost down from any retail version. I’m looking forward to posting pics very soon on the weapon light discussion.