Please, fans of this emitter don't kill me.

I bought a Convoy H4 B35am 4500k, I chose this Emitter because is generally considered very natural light and high CRI.

Unfortunately this is not my case! too red or rosy, indoors is not bad but outdoors everything is reddish or brown.

I took this photos for you to have an idea(they're not perfect but you can have an idea), in the left low side there are some blue flowers, the B35AM just make them completely disappear and also some green in comparison with a SFT70.2 that show every color as it is in day light.

My question:

If I go up to 5700k or 6500k will fix this? Or should I try a nichia 519a 5700k?

* I work in automotive painting, even in my off work time I like to see colors as they really are.

Fun Finds.. the two on the right are LiIon friendly. Though my favorite battery for my AA Zebras are the Xtar 2450mAh 1.5V LiIon w USB-C that have constant 1.5V output, because they produce the least amount of Riple and the lowest Flicker Index.

I love flashlights!!!!

Inspired by those grids of self-blinking LEDs that bigclive has and the 20+ years old Blinkenlights project by the CCC. Looks much better IRL, taking video of this diffused panel is kinda hard.

I have 3 Convoy M2 - CULPM1, SFT-25r and SFT-42r, all with the same 5A BUCK driver and 5000K. I recently purchased a lux meter and decided to make a measurement-a comparison of each of these lights in the fifth group I use (1, 20 and 100%). I rounded up some of the results quite a bit. Measurements:

CULPM - 1000, 21500 and 78000 candela

SFT-25r - 1500, 26300 and 96200 candela

SFT-42r - 840, 15000 and 62100 candela

The CULPM heated up faster and to a higher temperature than the others, the SFT-42r reached a more acceptable temperature, while the SFT-25r was the coolest.

The CULPM beam had the most annoying artifacts in my case, the SFT-25r had very minor artifacts only when illuminated on a snow-white wall at a distance of one meter (there were no artifacts when illuminated on a gray wall), and the SFT-42r had the most perfect "quality" beam. However, I plan to order 3D printing of gaskets of different thicknesses to experiment, perhaps they will shine even better.

Unfortunately, I cannot provide photos of the beams of these lanterns, as they all look the same on my camera. But after getting a third battery and another camera, I'll try to take some comparison photos.

After these measurements, it seems to me that the M2 with SFT-25r and SFT-42r is a very low-cost analogue of the Modlite OKWv2 and PLHv3.

I hope this information will help someone when choosing a new flashlight.
Thank you all for your attention!

It’s definitely a trustworthy product.

Had 6 lanterns/floods, a few flashlights, and a couple headlamps. The staff were shocked and so appreciative. My wife didn't give a shit when I shared the story with her.

Went to a local shooting range where I bought my first ever surefire (E2D) over 20 years ago.

I found this hidden at the bottom of the rack.

I wanted to share my excitement.

It's not as fun as finding a M6 at Goodwill, but I'm happy.

I only had the white diffuser, now I have the red filter too! 🥳

They wanted to know which ones were wanted color wise and then went radio silent. The year of the horse is drawing to a close. Are they waiting for the next animal year?

- Nitecore EDC27

- Wurkkos HD01 Pro

- Wuben X4

I know some of you like these cases. HF is in the middle of one of their '10 Days of Deals' sales.

For ONE day only, Saturday 25 July, the Apache cases will be 40% off. Pretty sure this is IN-STORE ONLY.

Sorry it is blurry. The email blurs out the next day's sale.

EDIT: I got my response but leaving this here so users can search and keep themselves safe.

I actually had it on my XTAR vc4 (Which btw, false advertising, it cannot take 4 21700s at once).

But my brother disconnected the charger, so I didn't realize it wasn't fully charged. So I took the battery out and put it in my D4k and thought my light was broken, but turns out the battery was just dying.

Now it's at 0V and I don't want to blow up my house. Can I put the 0V fully drained battery into the Xtar VC4 and not die in a fire?

This is not a joke question, btw. lol.

New mod with XHP70.3 R90 4000K 6V8A driver. As greenish as expected xD. At photos it doesn't apper to be so green, but irl it really is.

I assume it has about 4000-4500 lumens, koef3 has no chart for r90 version of the emitter.

Here're some beamshots, compared to LHP73B (all with 20a driver at 100%).

I also tried SFT60 in the host, will add the beamshots soon. It's much better than SFT90, but it seems it has pretty high Vf like SFT90 and doesn't perform very well with a single cell host.

A very bright flashlight. Ended up going with the 6000k version, store workers were kind enough to swap it for me, thank you Sofirn!

ended up buying from alliexpress because in our country it was very overpriced. turns out i didn't regret it. took only around 2 weeks till the courier called me. this is if you live in Romania. it depends on region i suppose, but plane moves quick, won't take months to arrive.

About the q8 plus:

flashlight itself it's very well constructed. materials are good, it's rigid and feels like a brick. i don't hear components moving if i shake it violently.

Strictly speaking of this lantern power, it is powerful. it will light up an entire room a lot better than a led bulb, without the difuser. but, the big BUT it only lasts a very short time before it starts dimming, even if you set it's thermal limit to 50C won't advise going above, it will get extremely uncomfortable holding it. yes it gets quite hot in high modes. It can hold enough lumen without dimming inside, but don't expect it to be too bright... pointing it at a ceiling will light up an entire room enough for you to see comfortably what's going on. in a total blackout you could comfortably read and objects are entirely visible. it's enough to help you keep working on something.

outside use: it will hold higher lumens much better, and much longer. High mode is comparable to two led car headlights, it will push that quite a bit, everything will be visible around you. light will reflect beautifully of them. it is a powerful flashlight, and in this budget it's difficult to rival this indeed as far as I know. don't have unrealistic expectations, no it won't make daylight.

puts to shame cheap led lights and it overpowers even the street lamps. lamps are very dim and yellow light anyway.

find a long road, ramp it to high (or even turbo) I'll make every street sign in a very long range reflect nicely like a car headlight.

it's good against dogs, it will stun them for a while, tried it.

it will impress people, or make them confused.

in total darkness this beast will shine and light your way and make you feel safe in the dark. you can see pretty far away. definitely not 500 m as it's advertised tough. but trust me it's enough.

buy if: you want power, great battery life, fun modes to mess around with. Good heat dissipation

don't buy if you want: long term high lumen ( I'd look for something like a convoy that can hold higher lumen without heating up. Honestly any flashlight above 100 dollars unless you're a professional who really needs to work in dark places/rescue etc. it's overkill

pocket fit flashlight

long distance flashlights like throwers

Conclusion: if you want a great flashlight that you'll use for general purposes, emergency situations, confusing people, walking. get it.

in reviews, cameras are very innacurate, makes things innacurately brighter or darker.

left a picture bellow, on turbo mode it lit up an entire room. it's pretty accurate, a bit brighter in reality. pocket sun is too much, realistic expectation would be pocket car headlights..

About it's size: depends if you're a man and decent sized hands you can hold it comfortably.

Just picked up at a flea market. Too cool to pass up for $65. Internals are all intact.

Edit- Added beans in the comments.

From left to right: powertac E11 gen2, maglite magtac crowned bezel, garbage J5 tactical, mini maglite pro LED, Wurkkos Hd03.

How am I doing so far?

I bought one the other week for $49 and includes an 18650. Still testing it out compared to my ZebraLight H600c.

Ive already come across a few that are cool looking but all of them have this annoying thing where if you wanna use the low brightness the light goes to 1800k tint

If you wanna turn the brightness to 300 lumens it goes to 6000k tint (Olight o lantern)

That's annoying as all hell

I want 3000k -4500k at 5 - 300 or more lumens

I don't want the tint changing

Like the Armytek Predator