Thank you @DB Custom for the easy to understand explanation
I think it all boils down to this: Do we want to wait another 1-3 months to get such a board made, tested, and approved (or rejected and redesigned, re-tested, and approved) or do we just go forward now, knowing that somebody will develop a board for other emitter footprints soon enough once the light gets produced? Somebody will surely make such boards given the hearty interest which a few folks have exhibited over them
And I’m sensing something else here too. It seems that TF and the Q8 team are somewhat weary after all the effort which has been expended, which has been a huge effort and time commitment on numerous people’s parts. It’s been a long race and the finish line is in sight; let’s not move it further away now . Let everyone wrap up the last detail or two and take a well-deserved break while TF kicks it into their production schedule.
Everybody here is a winner with this light, even those whose ideas didn’t get adopted, because all of those things were well discussed making it easier to implement them into something else later on in a better way. Every original design goal has been exceeded, sometimes hugely and sometimes only by 50% (Only? When has another BLF special done that even in just one area? ). More has been added far beyond the original design and we’re still talking the same price we started with- now that is all simply amazing to me :sunglasses:
The wine is mature and nearly ready to be enjoyed which is the whole point of all the effort :+1:
Thanks Jason, that answers what I wanted to know. :+1:
AFAIAC the rest of it is a mute point.
The explanation djozz gave several post back as to why it was a very bad idea to change anything about the MCPCB made perfect sense.
Perfect sense in that it could lead to untold Q8 misery with what TF might come up with.
Nobody wants that possibility to be introduced any more than it already is.
Flag these to be elaborated for a “lessons learned” reconsideration, once this is all over.
Now cue the ominous background music.
“What are they doing over there? It’s quiet. TOO quiet ….”
Somewhere out there, a bean-counting cheese-paring businessman is nibbling away at a design specification to make a little more profit on each piece. https://www.google.com/search?q=scorpion+frog
I finally did some testing, now that I’m back from Asgard and have a working computer again. Not sure how much Tom will have time to change, or how much he wants to change. There don’t seem to be any important firmware issues, but there might be some small things to fix or some small improvements to add.
… and hopefully it won’t turn out like the X6v2, where the units shipped with old firmware. That was unfortunate.
Ha how tired I am, the caliper has a button to switch so I can give both, tomorrow, the Q8 is next to the bed and I know I just don’t want to bring it from there before I slept a little
