COConvoylight★★★★★
Stop buying crappy Amazon Torches... Buy these.
I have taken to walking a few miles a night for the last year in effort to lose weight now I am heading into dreaded middle age. Mission successful as I went from 192 pounds to 160 which is perfect :D but to help with this in the winter evening I purchased a few LED torches. They were the build in battery types, usb port on the back, few quid each. Well over the year I have had them the ports have started to die so I wanted replacements but figured I would spend a bit more for something robust.
I saw people on reddit talking about these convoy torches and so I thought I would take a look and to my surprise not only did they have a nice range but they all use replaceable batteries and best of all... I could specify the type of LED I wanted to use. So I put in an order for two orange torches using a 519A LED on a 12 step buck regulator which is a fairly efficient set up and specified an 1800K colour temperature as frankly being a child of the 80's I have always had a love of that sodium street lamp orange.
What has turned up to me here in the UK is two of the most beautiful little torches I have ever known, that are perfect for walking with. They cast a warm 1800K amber glow upon everything and although obviously not flood lights, cast light more than far enough for useful walking distances. the screw threads on them are good and solid too. You do not have to buy 2 but for the cost of £25 for a pair I bought, it was a bargain for two well made customised torches.
2026-10-23
DODOOGEE★★★★★
5 months in, overjoyed, S86Pro
5 months in, overjoyed.
I was always wary of Chinese brands in prior years as parts were not available / cheap and reliability was ever an issue. But it seems over the last 10 years there has been a real drive to tech up and increase quality in production in China and my S86 Pro would be the proof of that.
I am up and down ladders and scratching around on floors alot in what I do, Ive dropped the damned thing from low and high heights half a dozen times already and the worst its gotten is a tiny dink in the plastic bevel around the glass. I even dropped a hammer on it from 5 feet, on the glass... not a scratch o.o
Anything else I have owned from Samsung or Sony or apple would have been in bits and frequently were and that is despite them costing two to three times what this handset cost.
As for the tech inside, it is loaded to the gills, I have a decent octocore and GPU on board, sure its not the absolute fastest of parts but they are no slow pokes and when paired with 8 gig of ram makes the phone a joy to use. I dont think I have ever owned a mobile phone that could keep up with my type rate until now. There is no lag.
Plenty of storage with 128 gb. And an SD card socket for more.
And then there is the battery. Beastly. I charge up every 3 or 4 days and that's often with some fairly heavy usage in between as I also use it to compose music via Caustik 3.
The downside is obviously... the weight, but if you are like me and really never gave a damn about having a light weight phone and want something sturdy and loaded with enough tech to keep the phone in use for years android or not, then this is perfect.
As for the price, I got it on a deal at £133 inc shipping from China. Phenomenal value and so far no issues.
2022-04-02
