Well you know I kind of feel bad about the Q8 stealing the M6 thunder especially for RMM who must have seen his special versions of it being rendered a bit obsolete.
USA is the land of the big pickup trucks where light bars are cool and useful on, I would not even want to pursue light bars going below his price, he put a lot of work in them, they are honest American made high quality products. If people think they are too expensive or that they can do better, there are a few who made them so go ahead
I will follow a project like it closely and with interest but have no need for a light bar on our car
If people do start a BLF special and the drivers/electronics developed for it can benefit BLF and are designed Open Source the fund here can be used to order parts for prototypes, it is not exclusive for our/my projects of course but for BLF as a whole.
As Thijsco said, we can only do so much
It would be awesome if another team stepped up and do lights from scratch with no principal commercial interest, just for the kicks and pushing things further.
The cool thing is of course that lots of things already are going on or have been done in the past:
Bugsy36 with Banggood on the A6
the with several runs of the BLF348 by Singfire/Gearbest
ReManG, with Banggood on the sweet A01.
J-Dub74 working closely with Simon/Convoy, relaying BLF wishes to be poured into new lights and versions of lights.
Robo819 working closely with Mactoch, awesome lights!
Lucky for us in these cases the commercial parties do 100% of the prototyping so there are no costs for individual BLFers on parts.
When we started with the Q8 we stood on the shoulders of the people mentioned above. They have established BLF as trustworthy group to deal with. They proved it can be done.
Interesting is of course a key figure in many BLF lights is Neal.
A6, A01, EE X6, Kronos X5/X6 (As/Cu and ALU), Q8, GT, FW3A, all have Neal involved.
Then of course there are the “commercial parties” that still breathe BLF, RMM, Texas Lumens, Reylight, VestureOfBlood to name a few. It is so nice to see so much going on.
And let’s not forget people advising and doing work directly with manufacturers. Yeah it is clear BLF has a larger impact on the flashlight world then just being a bunch of consumers.
There areany smart people with great ideas, and if I being a newbie can kick off something like the Q8 sure much more can be done