Q8, PMS SEND TO THOSE WITH ISSUES BLF soda can light

Specialty. Use 2 tiny85s. lol ā€¦party light yay!

Thanks a lot for your welcome Miller!!

Uh, rim shot mode? :person_facepalming:

How about alarm clock mode? Like, tap-tap-tap (number of flashes) tap-tap-tap (after number of hours)

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!
Canā€™t wait to share it, will do it on my YouTube channel is gonna be the first video there.

OP updated with:

DROPTEST VIDEO

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 :wink: )

^ Imbedded:

Itā€™s always good practice to do drop testing in sandals

Yeah sandals, casual clothing, green plant, light room, seems nice place to work :wink:

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.

Impressive & entertaining video!

Who needs toes anyway?

Drop testing? I smell production hiding just around the corner :smiley:

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 Iā€™m not the strobe fan-boy. I can tolerate them as long as they are so well hidden that I canā€™t find them unintentionally :stuck_out_tongue: Liking the aftermarket pouches shown. Liking the ā€œsmoke grenadeā€ nomenclature even more because this light is going to ā€˜smokeā€™ 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 Iā€™ve read every post in this thread which is why the ā€œreadsā€ 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 itā€™s place, and I believe the Q8 is going to find itā€™s place alongside the BLF A6, X5, M24, and B158 as a milestone of flashlight design and performance. Just gotta love it!

Phil

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

Haha that smoke remark makes me want a pouch like that :wink:

Yes this droptest was a thing on the checklist
Hope we get the prototypes soon, they are good and can be labelled ā€œsampleā€ and a go can be given!

Am I on everyones ā€˜ignoreā€™ list?

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 ā€˜open it, open it!ā€™

The Miller, can you bump me from 2 light to 4 lights please?

Lol, like an idiot, I dropped a brick on my little toe a 6 months ago. Broke my toe.

anyone else see them switch the packages as he turned his back to the camera?
just kidding

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.
  • springs - still in tact, functional
  • driver/contact ring area - if any damage

NO NO, just that Dimking was not the first to talk about it and easier to get to quote made me quote that. :slight_smile:

Yeah I as totally surprised they turn it on after unpacking.

Yes will update list soon!