There are wake up alarms that slowly light up the room, I read it works great and people love it.
Heheh Tom when you move to a MCU with more coding space
Quadruple click and hold -> enter wake up alarm setting -> click number of hours
Light ramps up in 15 minutes
Heheh
Good news we received the droptest video!
Canāt wait to share it, will do it on my YouTube channel is gonna be the first video there.
Good news, Thorfire did the droptest. WITH cells in it so more heavy and without shipping package, this is good result! (And just look at that tint when they click it on )
Looking good. I subbed to the YouTube channel.
I think its safe to say there will be very few, if any lights that are damaged in shipping.
I kind of want to see some other tourcher tests now. Like having the light on while frozen in a block of ice. I think Simon did a video of a s2 like that.
Drop testing? I smell production hiding just around the corner
Finances have been weird here but I might be able to get a second one in a week or two if things keep going as they currently are. And Iām not the strobe fan-boy. I can tolerate them as long as they are so well hidden that I canāt find them unintentionally Liking the aftermarket pouches shown. Liking the āsmoke grenadeā nomenclature even more because this light is going to āsmokeā almost every other stock light :smiling_imp:
So are we still at the original price point ($40+ 10%)? I read some discussion earlier that it might go higher (and Iāve read every post in this thread which is why the āreadsā are up). Most of the relevant discussion here has been well worth reading and many of the points brought up have been enlightening- the depth of thought found here on BLF is amazing. The irrelevant discussion has been entertaining as well.
I believe that everything has itās place, and I believe the Q8 is going to find itās place alongside the BLF A6, X5, M24, and B158 as a milestone of flashlight design and performance. Just gotta love it!
Yea, haven't looked at C lib rand() code support in a long time, but thought it was fairly big. Goin from 4GB embedded panel displays @work to 8KB MCU's is a little rough, and 8KB is a huge MCU
Very excited to see the drop test, doing it with cells in makes me think they were pretty confident. After the first few drops I was chanting āopen it, open it!ā
The Miller, can you bump me from 2 light to 4 lights please?
About the alarm clock thing, we don't have a RTC (Real Time Clock) or much equivalent, and for the timers we currently use, I think I'm seeing a hefty delta off of what I thought. I think I'll have to run some independent timer tests. We use two methods of timing: a roughly 16 msec interrupt, and a delay loop based on processor time to run a specific sequence of code. I'm suspecting the delay loop method doesn't take into account interrupt servicing, so the delays are longer than I think. Also, the 16 msec interrupt may be off as well (takes longer).
In the latest Narsil version, I introduced yet another interrupt handler for AtoD conversion (when the AtoD completes) for both temperature and battery voltage readings, code contributed by DEL, so this might be the cause, or part of the cause. With some of the slower blinks (like battery voltage or temp reading), the blink sequence is definitely slower compared to the old version, though the delays are coded the same.
Drop Test - I would love to see some close up pics of the light, and yes, taken apart, check those cells, etc. Need to examine:
glass lens - any damage?
batteries survive without nicks, dents, etc.
bezel - should be ok because of SS, but any other damage around it
tail - I'd expect some dents or something there. The tailcaps are pretty thin metal, certainly a weak point of the design.