Tom helped me out in a huge way and got one of his lights to me in time for my Brother-in-Law’s birthday. This is a Narsil firmware SupFire M6, light pipe beacon off the driver and with all the modifications… I got Josh’s wife to record him when he opened the package. He is 28 now, the look on his face seeing the light, knowing what it was after having seen my own M6 a couple of weeks earlier, he was stunned, in awe, and his wife giggled behind the camera as he exclaimed and oohed and ahhed. I spoke with him on the phone later and he said he was outside, after dark, actually talking to my wife on the phone (his sister) when His wife fired up the M6 from an upstairs balcony and lit up his backyard like daylight! He was just absolutely amazed. I told him he had another surprise in store for him… he’d only seen it with the new cells fresh out of the box… I suggested he charge the cells and check it out tonight! (if he was blown away with it on nearly dead as-shipped cells, he’s gonna pass out when he sees it running on full power!)
Thank you Tom, very much appreciate your help in getting this to me so fast. Josh can’t believe his new flashlight has a 4 page operating manual!
Edit: Of course I told him about the upcoming Q8, he’ll have to get a few for his friends after they see this M6 he just got. He was quizzing me on how he could get more, he knows of 6 or 7 people that are gonna HAVE to have one after they see his…
My 30Qs came in the other day, after testing them for resistance and capacity “for the record” as I do all “new to me” cells I fully charged them and did the solder blobbing today. The blobing was actually much easier than I envisioned. I didn’t think the solder would stick as readily as it did. My iron was a 27 watt model with a fairly large chisel point end. I cleaned the iron tip by putting it directly into the tin of Nokorode paste. Then I spread a film of the melted paste residue that was on the iron to the roughed up anode. Used a Dremel and a sandpaper disk for the roughing up.
Still working on things
When true flawless samples are in our hands we of course will change the topic title and write about them.
It is not before that moment guesses of when it will be available can be made
Is it known how many lights they intend to make as a first run? I might have to buy multiples that I haven’t spoken for, as everyone I talk to about this seems to want one, or more. It’s like the branches of a tree… my Brother-in-Law loves it, knows 7 people that will have to have one, they each know a few more and suddenly there’s a demand for 15-20 lights stemming from that one gifted one.
I might have to have 10 or something, as a start, but don’t have funds to lock that in right at the moment. Should have within a few weeks, guess I’ll speak up for some numbers when that time comes. Maybe a dozen?
I'll probably add a couple more as well, over what I'm already signed up for. Yikes, these #'s can go insane, but I would like to see at least one made at or near our specs.
I'm not certain why the Q8 proto performs so much better than my hand modded 4X SRK clone, but suspect it's the LED wires. Those 18 AWG wires, even though just one pair, could be much better than 4 pairs of 22 AWG I'm using. I know the battery tube is the same, driver is the same, and LED's should be equivalent (XPL V6 3D on one MCPCB vs XM-L2 U3 3D on 4 separate MCPCB's).
Might experiment with the wires in the SRK clone to see if changes help or make a difference.
(if he was blown away with it on nearly dead as-shipped cells, he’s gonna pass out when he sees it running on full power!)
He was quizzing me on how he could get more, he knows of 6 or 7 people that are gonna HAVE to have one after they see his…