Q8, PMS SEND TO THOSE WITH ISSUES BLF soda can light

My switch had started to flicker a lot in this last week so last night I got fed up with it and decided to either fix it or send it to hell… Luckily I fixed it :smiley:

I carefully unscrewed the retaining ring using snap ring pliers and proceeded to put a very small amount of flux on each side of the resistor and the leds, then while the switch was powered on I used a soldering iron to gently touch each side of the resistor and the leds, the problem was a bad solder on one of the left side led, now it does not flicker at all!

HTH
AlexGT

Nice move…… & info. . :+1:

I ordered a total of nine Q8s for myself and several friends, and they all arrived in perfect working condition.

Before distributing them among my friends, I clamped seven Q8s together. I used small lengths of dowel between the battery tubes to keep the Q8s parallel.

Click the photos to embiggen.

The huge difference in brightness required that I set the camera’s exposure so the 7x just barely didn’t overexpose the scene. In person, both scenes are much brighter.

The 7x Q8 photo reveals a marauder peering from behind the tree. (He’s wearing sunglasses and still had to squint.) :sunglasses:

Here is a comparison .GIF:

Here is a view from the marauder’s position next to the tree, 115 feet from the 7x Q8.

Here’s a view from behind the 7x rig on the tripod.

The question is who will do that with 7 GTs?

That’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in 2018, maybe even 2017 as well

yep, there’s the marauder alright, :sunglasses:

why buy a Q8 when you can buy this

https://shopee.com.my/Waterproof-3500LM-Pocket-LED-Flashlight-3-Modes-Zoomable-LED-Torch-i.28077995.776164331

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More run time obviously! Lol

I’m sure the single xml on a tiny boost driver with a AAA battery can do at least what, 150 lumen?

+ at least 1…… …. :person_facepalming: . :smiley: . :smiley: . :smiley:
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  • 3500 lumens
  • 3 modes
  • Zoomie
  • 1 x AAA

Priceless……… :wink:

“Super bright lamp beads” Yeah, brightest beads I’ve ever seen! Hahaha

ok, my q8’s indicator light (switch) doesn’t stay on anymore. I didn’t understand the manual posted. (have to be in a certain mode to fix the issue) (eye roll). anyone want to give me the “for dummies” solution? . I cant read 550 pages of q8. I just read 500 pages of GT, I can barely see now :stuck_out_tongue:

Does it come on under any circumstances?

Did you program it to not come on?

It my be broken. A lot of the early Q8’s had defective switches. It was something about the leds or resistors not being fully soldered.

See AlexGT’s post #16711 to see how he fixed his.

If you think the problem is in the programming, you can do a factory reset and put the light back to stock. Is that what you want to do?

The instructions to reset the factory settings are in post #2. Let me know if you need help with them.

This is just a guess Jason… but I bet if it just happened all at once, after previously working fine; it has been deactivated …. as you mentioned. And a factory reset, as you also mentioned; will solve it. :slight_smile:

I have done this a few times myself by accident…… :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming:
Factory reset was my friend…… :smiley:
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Below is a link to the simplest Factory Reset directions I have found.

Hope this solves it……. :slight_smile:
Let us know.
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Edit for spelling….

yeh, when you check the battery voltage by doing three clicks…sometimes sticky fingers or whatever can make strange things happen…little green light goes byebye :wink:

ask me how i know… :disappointed:

Jason. It does flash , but doesn’t stay on in a standby line it did originally.

Teacher. I think you’re on the right path for me. I saw those instructions, but they begin with “while displaying the firmware number “. I don’t know how to get to that display mode :confused:

Ok. So click followed by press & hold only ramps me up to max. Not landing in battery mode. Which is before firmware mode, which is before reset series.

Battery check is a triple click. Do that and it will blink out the battery voltage over and over.

Give it a few seconds at least, then do a dbl click. Now it will blink out the temperature “in Celsius”.

Give it a few seconds at least, then do a dbl click. Now it will blink out the firmware number “1”.

Now to reset it, you press and hold for 1.2 seconds and you should see it do 4 blinks.

So its: 3x, 2x, 2x, press and hold for 1.2 secs.

/\\\…… Tejasandre…… What Jason said. Perfect instructions. . :+1: