Yep…. the journey of your Q8 has definately began David. Next stop will be Hong Kong….
Remember… pay no attention to what FedEx Tracking says at this point. Nothing will show on it until they have actually received the package in hand. And even then mine have not been 100%.
BUT 17Track has been 100% right to my mailbox.
Below is what one of my PreOrders shows a few minutes ago …. So these bad boys, as well as yours; are definatly on the move.
Origin Country - China
HONGKONG - HONG KONG, Arrived at Sort Facility HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
2017-09-30 15:00
SHENZHEN, Departed Facility in SHENZHEN
2017-09-30 02:50
SHENZHEN, Arrived at Sort Facility SHENZHEN
2017-09-30 02:50
Shipment information received
2017-09-27 22:28
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PLEASE NOTE
This above information is only valid for USA orders that were shipped Priority Air Mail. It might work for some other countries… but that is an unkown.
Oh, and a request: I’d love to see a side-by-side comparison of a Q8 from the first batch and one from the next. Just curious about the subtle changes they are making after the halt.
I got my Q8 today. Very solid and awesome light for this price. Just cleaned some dust (there was very little of it) and drilled screw holes a little bigger. Threads where lubed, but adding a little extra is always a good idea. Basically perfect light right out of the box.
Big thanks to hole team! I might order couple more as a gift. ;)
Ramping and mode set operation are completely different UI's. A multi click sequence in mode sets would get confused with fast single clicks, so it's avoided. Ramping is all about press&hold or single clicks so 2X and more fast clicks is not so easily confused, unless you wanted to very quickly do ON/OFF's or OFF/ON's and make up your own strobe or something.
Just a tip on how one can make Q8 a little bit more comfortable to use. The underside area where you hold index finger can feel a bit sharp when operating the flashlight. If the 3 furthest fins had stopped halfway only to go half the circumferences, that underside area would be smoother. Olight Sr Mini Intimitator seems to be designed that way. The cooling fins stop there to make a smooth area.
As a quick fix for that I used a 17 cm long x 2.5 cm wide strip of Gorilla tape.
How does everyone track? I tracked at Fedex.com and I get a generic ‘information received’ for a few days now.
Assuming it has left their facility, I feel comfortable expecting them in two weeks…
I think the answer to that is probably “space”. That’s a big component. What would you do with all those switches in there anyway? There is a tailswitch board with a single switch on it though, designed to allow you to turn the taillight off. It mounts inside the spring.
Even if you found a micro sized dip switch, you would still need to run several tiny wires from the driver near the head, to the tail cap. Then how would you be able to twist the cap and keep the wires connected? There is no way. That’s why you don’t see them in tail caps.
Soon flashlights will need to have a locking key like some lasers
This way you can go from 0 to some lumens, then turn the key and unlock insane mode.
When ramping mine up its like when i reach the top there are 1 “larger” and a smaller flash of the beam, dunno what it is but it dont bother me that much, just saying.
I got a shipping notice from Banggood! Ordered on 9/9. Tracking number doesn’t show up in 17Track.net at first, but then if I click the FedEx link it does come up. BG order says it’s “Priority Air Mail” with an ETA of 10/22 (How is that “priorty air mail”? Though I expect it will deliver sooner.) We’ll see if I win the Chinese lottery in regards to all of these reported issues.
I thought about that, and it's true a little, unless you had a UI lockout for 1 second after entering mode-lockin. Personally I think any system that changes its UI on its own at time where the user might be expected to provide input, should always lockout input long enough for the user to react or be sure that the change has occurred. A great example is the android screen rotation. I'm continually frustrated by pressing the wrong thing, right after the screen inadvertantly rotates. With a 1.5 second or whatever timer on the lcokin, there's going to be an edge where the user has a second thought, thinks "I can still click up one more mode", but misses it and clicks off by accident instead. If you have a 1 second UI lockout that won't happen, and also by the time that is over the user will be very sure that he's in mode-lockin now and will know he'll need to click twice to bump up. To fix the final race, you'd need the single-click lockout to last just a touch longer than the double-click lockout, to avoid a double click where the first one is during the lockout and the second one registers.
I also don't find the double click that confusing with regular clicks, since it does the same thing, it's just that the first one gets ignored when in lock-in. And it's no more confused with mode advance clicks than the off click is. Mode advance doesn't exist at that point anyway as it stands.
Anyway, as for long click off, what bistro is supposed to (when e-switch works again, soon) is always be off when the switch is pressed. That's has its own ups and downs (and is easy to change) but one up is that even long press off, turns the light off instantly. The wait is for locking it off. So you still have to spend your time to turn it off, but you do get instant turn off.
Number: RG61XXXXX61CN
Package status: In transit
Destination country: Malaysia
Origin country: China
2017-09-30 20:13 Bulk acceptance packet processing center in Guangzhou, has received send