Convoy M3 - 4300 lumens - great value LED flashlight 

thanks I bought one just after reading ur comment

@@nicekid9593 it's a no bullshit, tough-built, chunky inexpensive bright light. it's got a heft to it so you know that if you get into a dicey situation and this is the only thing you have, you can take comfort to the fact that you can use it for other things than its intended purpose. and it's gonna do more than just hurt hehe. it's definitely a man's flashlight

@@LCPL1322 thanks :D ur comment made me love my new light more :D cheers!

Which 26650 are you running?

It's a nice light, it's not bothered about being compact so you get longer runtimes on the higher power levels.

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You've not seen my last 2 reviews! The Dangerous place has moved to somewhere far more spacious and varied!

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV I thankfully stand corrected. Thank you for the reply. And once again, you make awesome videos.

Suggested chargers

@@johnbiggins4864 love my Miboxer c4-12

That turns the M3 into the M3-C, doesn't it? Even if not, it's still a stupendous torch.

Doe it use protected or unprotected cells?

It will probably take either but I used an unprotected

It's when the voltage gets low, it won't let me double click to turbo

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV I'm sorry, but I must not be understanding your comment when you went to the " dangerous place" and said that you couldn't understand why Convoy left out double tap for turbo @6:14 but when you posted your lumen measurements you said you could double click from off to go directly to turbo. Please clarify

@@craigs7181 yes it double taps for turbo from off but not on.

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV Yeah, that's what I thought you meant. Mine works whether the light is on or off.

Just bump it back up. Early step down is to protect from flat battery and fire if it turns on in a bag etc.

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV I did, but it was able to use turbo for a much shorter time. My idea was to use it as a high beam (I have tried many flashlights, including this) on my bike, but its firmware is not good for that, I think. That Emisars looks good in this regard though :)

@@RelakS__ yeah, Emisar or Fireflies (using Narsil/Anduril) and u can change the thermal settings so it doesn't step down as fast. LED and driver may get fried quicker though. Get a copper one!

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV Actually, that 80% looks good enough in the Emisar D4S, and I expect way less heat than on 100%. If it were have some active heat control, so if the lamp cools down (I start to ride), it were give back some light intensity, it would be way better.

might be a battery issue. must use batteries that can sustain a 15 to 20a current.

Yeah, they must have sent me the 5000K by mistake. I do prefer 5000 to 6500 though. 5700 being my preference.

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV Thanks for the reply! It looked good in the movie, that tint... Ordered both 4000 and 5000. Gonna keep the one I like best, gift the other one at some point. Thanks for the entertaining video's you put together.

@Demon Hunters For what it's worth, I've a s11 with the 50.2 @ 4000k which is really noice... Has something halogen-esque about it. Use it in the woods and the park to walk the dog. Makes colors come alive more it seems.

@Demon Hunters That d18 is sick... Love that format, and it looks to be built like a tank. You guys have it good there, I saw the m3 with the discount link on Banggood for sub 30 darra US?! The Emisar there I saw you could bundle with 30Q's, but that's I sanely expensive for 3 cells. We can get them locally for 5-6 bucks, even less when on sale... (Netherlands) I usually find I pay a little more through the official stores on Aliexpress, but they do coupons as well, though not the sick discounts you get in the description box sometimes. I'm a keep that d18 on the backburner for now, have a soda-can on the way... (Sofirn sp36 blf Samsung variant) Not in the same league build wise, but still. I can't remember breaking a light ever, through abuse, so... I'll leave you to it, nice talking to ya! Oh wait... www.nkon.nl/samsung-inr-18650-30q-3000mah.html

Yup.

D4SV2 with XPL-HD demolishes it.

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV I have a D4v2 now, albeit with E21A LEDs. The M3 is still the king of lumens per watt in my collection. I really hope Simon squeezes bigger LEDs into smaller hosts just for the efficiency benefits alone.

Have the same question... I have good experiences with 4000k thought, in the woods mostly.

I got sent a 6500k light but it's probably a 5000k sent by accident

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV Thank you. Did you like the light? I probably would prefer 4300. In the forest it will be a more pleasant light (hello, Frank!).

@@lekhayamal9457 Hey buddy! So I went for both 4000k and 5000k(at these prices, right?!) Was about time for some new lights too, the most recent one I had was the Fenix uc30 from 3-4 years ago, which is now in use by the other person that walks our dog. Should you consider buying, a really decent 26650 is in order... Full 10 amps are drawn here, boost driver needs all the voltage it can get for turbo. I use Shockli, Keeppower and Littokala, all rated 20-30 amps. Greetz.

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Yeah it's trying to protect the driver and LEDs, not many high power lights can last ages on turbo even if the body is cool.

Nothings wrong, SST20 LED's aren't powerful at all.

Try BGTorch4 or 6GSGIT

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV both expired 😔

The Rofis is 6500k

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV - Thanks! What about the Convoy M3 used in the review?

At turn on the VTC5A/D is king, after a few minutes use the VTC6 will be giving more output

no because the beam would not be nice with smo reflector.

Tighten the spring/pill retainers and clean contacts

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV All are clean, that's is new. This happened exactly when the buttons were pressed.

@@wodekstolarski4455 what batteries?

@@FLASHAHOLIC_TV The batteries are fine. The flashlight at the beginning worked well, heated to 45 °.

Only got the Haikelite HK90 in the pipeline and a secret Acebeam

4000k is a warm light, 6500k a cool light.

Some diffusion material should do the trick. DC-Fix is popular but I've dismantled LCD screens from old laptops and found sheets of diffusion material there.

@@Skitizen i have some of that sheet's are they flexible . And what you do with them make can you explain what is the purpose of that

Not that I know of

The driver is not made for that much voltage anyway.

Price on link, it's very cheap

@MegaTabetha reply from Banggood is that the company doing the shipping had problem with the "logistics". If logistics meant their transportation broke down or so. or that something to do with USA President Trumps tariffs on China's exports to America. I also tried to buy from another Chinese company "Gears Best", and after trying to fill out the information with the address and phone number , the web page stop taking information. I couldn't fill in phone number information, when trying to continue page said without phone information it couldn't continue . ? either that or some communication break down in China. strange events.

@MegaTabetha As of July 25, 2019, the Convoy M3 arrived in the mail,(?). I assume they still mailed it to me , but didn't ship the four 26650 batteries.

No, it is inferior

Depends on how important efficiency and choice of colour temperature are. Grown to prefer my 3000k M3 over my 5000k SP36 despite my preference for Anduril.

Running a Shockli 5500mah in mine.

Any li-ion really

I know it's been a few months since you asked about runtimes and the reason you probably didn't get a response is the fact that the M3 doesn't come with a battery. The M3 also can use 26650, 21700, and 18650 batteries, so there will be huge differences in runtimes between all the available capacities between all of the batteries available in these 3 sizes and whether or not you use genuine high quality batteries or cheap and possibly fake batteries. I can tell you what I have gotten on the lowest setting so far, which is quite useable indoors and gives enough light to dimmly light a 15x15ft room when I tail stand it and bounce it off the ceiling. I use the black Shockli 20A 5500mAh battery that has an actual measured capacity of around 6025mAh. I've gotten 126 hours so far and the voltage is at 3.61v after that amount of time, so it can go even longer. It's been averaging about .05v drop for every 12hrs of runtime. I've been running it every night for the past 10 nights anywhere from 11-14.5hrs each night. I check the voltage each day. I estimate that by the time I get down to 3.1v I'll have about 200hrs of runtime from the lowest setting (1%). The next setting up (10%) is far too bright to have it in my bedroom while I sleep. In fact, I have to use a dark orange prescription bottle as a diffuser on the 1% setting when I'm actually ready to go to sleep. I have the 4200K tint.

@@craigs7181 thanks man. as i understand the run times are based of what led you use, how many batteries and what electronic control unit you use and how is set up the levels of light in every push of the button. I asked about run times, because all the known good brands they say how many hours last the lighting and in what levels like the nitecores. But its ok because all the brands now they have done very good job, so if i worry about run times i buy a second battery and carry it with me and is ok.

@@but531 Yes, all that does have a great affect on runtime. And the M3 doesn't really have a true moonlight mode, but I don't need something that low and the lowest setting on the M3 is great for indoors without being too bright. The runtime I gave you is for the M3 using that particular 26650 battery on the lowest setting. I ran it for another 11 hours last night and now the total so far is 137 hours and now the voltage is down to 3.58v. It only dropped an additional .03v I love my M3. No, it's not an edc light, it's a little too big and it does have some weight to it. But it does work really well and running it on the 40% level is more than enough light for 99% of what I need. If I need a thrower, I'll get out my Astrolux FT03 with an XHP50.2 or my Convoy C8+ with an SST40 if I need something small.

@@craigs7181 thanks man also thanks for your suggestions.

Just to let you know, I got a total runtime of 185 hours on the 1% setting and 10.5 hours on the 10% setting of which 8 hours and 7 minutes were at the 10% level and then it stepped down to 1% for an additional 2 hours and 27 minutes until it shut off. I have to admit that I was impressed with the results, as 1% will dimmly light a 15ft x 15ft room when you tail stand the light and enough light for searching indoors. And 10% is bright indoors but useable and easily enough light to use for a walk at night outside. I won't test 40% and 100% because a couple of variables come into play that will affect runtime, the quality of the battery and environmental conditions, as many batteries won't even be able to run it at all at 100% or it will step down in a very short time because of voltage sag when under the heavy current draw. You can not skimp on the battery for this light unless you only plan on using the lower settings as I did get 100 hours of runtime at the 1% setting from a Panasonic NCR18650B 3400mAh battery, but it's only rated at 6.8A max, so in an emergency it would be useable only on the lower settings. DEFINITELY NOT AT 100%