Thanks for the pics! It must be very special to finally hold and use this light after more then a year, 7000+ posts, so much time, energy and synergy. That’s a very satisfying achievement! 
A couple comments:
My understanding was the Q8 would have the exact same dimension as a good old SRK but it looks a tad smaller on your pictures?
and… please get yourself a digital caliper. LOL! :person_facepalming:
Excellent team job! Keep up the good work! :+1:
Great to see the tripod photos. My Q8 will probably spend quite a bit of time mounted on a tripod.
Yes stupid of me, bumming about rain, while there was so much to take pics of inside.
LOL, BrianK, thanks for editing the Q4 talk out, here you can discuss it: Talk about future projects and donation topic - #2 by The_Miller
I do have a digital stainless steel caliper, bought this $0.50 one for measuring glass and such, no scratches 
The lower part of the Q8 bezel is 0.11mm lower then this golden SRK
The top part of the SRK bezel is 0.78mm higher
So it is not 100% the same (and I don’t even know if all the SRKs are the same) but pretty close.
Made beamshots, with an L6 too!
working on small text for what they are and uploading, so brb
Yeah, there was something strange going on there. I got deposited somewhere where that discussion was happening (thought it was here since that was my intended destination), responded to it and found that I wasn’t where I was supposed to be. Maybe it was an artifact of the maintenance? So I deleted the post and moved on.
I’ve never been on acid (LSD), but I suspect it was much like that. Or so it felt on my end. Very strange.
BEAMSHOTS
House 25 meters, camera on “live” setting for it shows what I see irl very closely
SRK (stock, quad LBs with a pretty nice tint)
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Haikelight Trekker (stock XHP50.2 CW Sanyo GA cells)
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Nitecore TM06S (stock regulated driver, 4000lumens on all decent cells at all voltages above 3, CW)
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Convoy L6 (stock, NW, Liitokala 26650 cells, fully charged before making the beamshots)
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BLF Q8 (Panasonic protected 3400mAh)
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BLF Q8 (30Q bt)
BEAMSHOTS
House 100 meters, camera on “live” setting for it shows what I see irl very closely
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SRK (stock, quad LBs with a pretty nice tint)
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Haikelight Trekker (stock XHP50.2 CW Sanyo GA cells)
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Nitecore TM06S (stock regulated driver, 4000lumens on all decent cells at all voltages above 3, CW)
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Convoy L6 (stock, NW, Liitokala 26650 cells, fully charged before making the beamshots)
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BLF Q8 (Panasonic protected 3400mAh)
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BLF Q8 (30Q bt)
Nice beamshots! :+1:
Thanks, sure Dale can do this much better (lol a lot of BLFers can do this a lot better) but t gives an idea.
If it wasn’t for your previous post I would not have taken the L6 and only used soda can lights, but the tint of my L6 is close and indeed interesting to see. :person_facepalming: for having the L6 in frame
Well pics and texts can’t describe the feeling of that smooth ramping from moon to sun 
As you can see the Q8 has a nice flood, good reach and nice tint.
The UI makes it really special besides seeing it come to life (indeed very special for us)
People not into flashlights still love playing with that click hold, click hold interface
Miller, thanks for the shots, and all you’ve done. Your “cave” is beautiful, by the way. The house too.
It appears Miller has bricked or rocked over the cave.
The beamshots you have taken show how much output you can get from a budget light.
Indeed they do. I gave my mother a choice of UIs on her SRK, and she knew immediately after seeing it that she wanted the smooth ramp. She likes how it goes up and down and all she has to do is let go to stop it where she wants it.
I love the sound of that, Miller!
Thanks for sharing your experiences with the prototype, and congrats to all of Q-Team! :+1:
It feels like the finish line is just around the corner… 
Yes, it certainly does. Nice beamshots, and it appears that the bar has just been raised on handheld flash light UIs by a substantial margin by the sound of it. But we’ve been expecting nothing less over the past few months posts. A hearty slap on the back to all involved in the project!
Do the innards measure up to what the last design was finalized to be? There was a question of thickness of the doohickey that transfers the heat to the case via a 2 screw connection (the screws weren’t a problem, but the thickness was to be increased a bit.
Very nice beamshots Miller, thanks.
The Miller,
I did a search a couple different ways (both in the thread and on Google in general) and couldn’t find a link to anything that looked like this. I did find the Fenix AOD diffuser on BangGood, is this the right one?
This is the one I have (well this set is the same I paid less but sure this was a fast search on the app so probably can be found cheaper)
Universal Flash Diffuser Cloud Lambency For Canon for Nikon Sigma Metz Flash Gun Wholesale
http://s.aliexpress.com/32uiqyaE
(from AliExpress Android)
I’m in for one!
More info on stock Q8
ledboard
20.7mm thick
38.05mm OD
right amount of thermal paste, evenly, not too little and not too much
integrated shelf stripped of ano where the ledboard sits, nice
That’s a thick chunk of copper at 20mm! Lol
I think you mean 2.07mm?
Sorry, I could have been more explicit. I only meant were the design specs met on the copper LED board? Not the actual measurement.