The labelling isn’t as clear on the new version, cheapens the look. Having said that, its not a deal breaker.
EDIT Shouldn’t have viewed on a 4 inch screen. On a 26” now and I agree version 3 is better.
What do you mean?
It’s clearly sharper and better looking.
Now, working on it, this post thus also doubles as MARK 
Done list should be up to date.
Well it seems all we need is the samples for the team if Tom does not discover things needed changing.
I hope/think they are already on their way!
The tools do flash a hex costs you less than 5$
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The markings look great
Guess how I know……
Oh yeah
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I just found
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A small parcel in the mailbox
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The usual plastic baggie
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Didn’t think much of it so tore it open
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Some white sheet padding
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A small pristine brown box
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Opened it
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A sheet of black padding
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YAY
It
Is
Here
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This is prototype 2 of 7
I so hope other team members will find something too!
First look (not even put cells in it) sweet
SO HOPE WE CAN LABEL THEM SAMPLES!!
Great news Miller! That answers your question if the other 6 prototypes were send out as well as Tom’s one.
(oh, no, I’m so busy ’till sunday night that I will not even be able to even check the mail for middle-of-the-road plastic bags :person_facepalming: )
You should have known better, not being able to check the mail…tss … 
Sadly i can check my mail 24/7 as i will never be a working man again 
kinda sucks cuz the same fact also severely affected my online shopping powers.
regarding the BLF Firmwares running out of space and IOs, what bigger MCU could be the next step? And can old code be used?
Lamps getting more and more nice / complex. I see multicoloured lights, some with displays, more or RGB status LEDs.
Can’t the AT84 and little more expensive and newer AT841 be seen ad future MCUs, more pins, more channels anx better power usage for the 841 if I understand Mike C correctly.
Looking forward to seeing what the team thinks of the Proto 3 lights. Thanks for the pics Tom! Those comparison beamshots are amazing as well. The “grouping” is obviously much tighter with the Q8 than the Securitying. Did they thicken the shelf or did the team decide it was ok with the shelf thickness from Proto 2?
The shelf, we (well I) said it was OK for a thicker copper slab would add depth and it already worked great with a thinner smaller OD ledboard
Yes, I do believe the hot spot in the pics is bout accurate to what I'm seeing. It doesn't mean though the 4X SRK clone throws much better. Found in my notes back on July 5th when I did the full mod to that light I measured 52 kcd, but that was at 5,450 measured lumens @30 secs and ~16.0A tail (clamp meter). I never could get as much amps out of that light as I could with the Q8 prototypes.
This is good news you received your Q8, The Miller - bout time you get a look 
I found a serious bug in the Narsil firmware
Ehm, I see a lot of white space in the post
So at first I thought there could be a funny pic
But doing this quoting thing, nothing shows up and you have been making lots of drivers with Narsil right?
Did you PM Tom about it?
Curious! There seems not much time for a Narsil update before the Q8 goes into production, but if the bug is serious, we will have to change it.
I confirmed this bug on v1.2 and 1.4 and are pretty sure its present on Q8 as well, as it is there really a long time
I PMed Tom E
Checked the pm - no details ?? Wait'n
Now that you post here about it, could you maybe be a little more specific?
Ok. He said blink mode disable is not working. I duplicated it and found the cause while in ramping, but in mode set operation, it seems to work ok: all blink modes can be disabled. There's something else though I'm seeing that needs further looking in to. I thought changing from ramping to mode sets and visa versa the blink setting of disable, strobe, all blink modes was not "sticking", staying in effect. I have to look into this more.
So far for ramping blink disabling not working, it's an easy fix, but of course this means updating the firmware.