Welcome to BLF, I see you already have the flashlight bug, guess it’s too late to issue warning
Welcome… impressive room, a true techy. Cant wait to set mine up like that.
Welcome Spawn, I guess the fence is off the dam now
Enjoy BLF!
Welcome SpAwN, and also Borri and iwandutchy. Wow, the last two of you are almost my neighbours! I feel the birth of a Dutch chapter coming. Let’s buy some more BLF GT’s, and we all will be outlawed.
Sorry friend, but this can’t be done Specially after seeing those shelfs Amazing!!!
I guess you’ll have to have another one for you future flashlight collection :smiling_imp: Eheheh!
Welcome and be happy here :+1:
Welcome to BLF SpAwN! Most impressive work room. Building lighted tailcaps is a fun challenge. I’m sure you’ve seen this link pertaining to lighted tailcaps, but just in case: D.I.Y. Illuminated tailcap.
Thanks for warm welcome again guys, I think I will spend a lot more time here than I suppose to
I was thinking about the Vaping batteries I got, those are 40A discharge with lesser mAh since the flashlights I ordered doesn’t need anything near 10A, I decided to get couple LG MJ1 10A 3500mAh, I hope these will work okay and keep the charge long time.
Thanks for the link NeutralFan, believe me I read all 57 pages couple days ago I even ordered some PCB’s from Oshpark, PD put a lot effort in those PCB layouts I am sure it will be good. I am not much of a SMD solder guy, but I have couple decent soldering stations (even one Proxxon, go figure ) and a hot air rework station. But my eyes and hands are not that good as it used to be, but I am sure it will come around.
Here Proxxon soldering station for techies among us, it is pretty rare:
Thanks for signing up, SpAwN!
Great, I have enough of those
Just sign up for The FW3A a TLF BLF special, also eyeballing at the BLF Q8 if the price drops I might get one and it is not even useful for me… but it looks awesome :sunglasses:
Like I said before “Someone needs stop me!”
Banggood had the Q8 on sale 2 weeks ago (already the 2nd time since its introduction) for 42€
If you register at M4DM4X you can get a discount code if its not on sale.
Thanks Yokiamy, €42 sounds really nice, I am subscribed for price drops on Banggood, the thing is I want to wait and get BLF A6 delivered, I had slightly bad experience with Banggood couple years ago, with my first order ever there. I order mostly from Aliexpress (1100+ orders in last couple years), Aliexpress dispute system works good.
Welkom. For a newcomer you seem to have made impressively wise choices; most of us had to buy a good deal of cheap stuff before we became educated enough to choose the lights you have ordered. If you can accept the significantly reduced run-time, try the BLF A6 with an 18350 for greater pocket-ability, one of my favorites.
For a newcomer you seem to have made impressively wise choices; most of us had to buy a good deal of cheap stuff before we became educated enough to choose the lights you have ordered.
Hi, Thanks for your kind words, if I didn’t found this forum with this much knowledge I wouldn’t know what to buy. For the pocket-ability I ordered a Utorch UT01. The BLF A6 will be on my belt at work.
Thanks to Yokiamy’s advice I also ordered a BLF Q8 with nice discount code from M4DM4X’s blog, I can’t thank them enough!
So… in last 14 days I ordered,
BLF A6
Convoy C8 Clear
Utorch UT01
BLF Q8
and sign up for The FW3A a TLF BLF
I want a Convoy S2+ with XML HI when I see one with right price.
Now I am going to try to wait and not buy anything till these flashlights arrive (at least I hope to do so)
Good choice!
Before you know it, you become a tint snob and end up with 7 S2+ es in different tints (like me )
Not to mention that they come in different anodized colors as well, still don’t have the tan :person_facepalming:
@Yokiamy, you know I already ordered 2x tan S2+ XPL HI but looking in to a Astrolux S1 18350 in red with 18650 tube for my wife now.
Cheapest Astrolux S1 18350 I could find is at Banggood with an 18650 tube it is even cheaper than a complete package here. and you cant even choose body color, or am I doing something wrong?
I am not even going to ask “Some stop me please” now, I am deep in to this :person_facepalming: already ordered 6 flashlights even before I get one in my hands…
Oh and, I am also looking for an ON THE ROAD M3 for a right price :weary:
@Yokiamy, you know I already ordered 2x tan S2+ XPL HI but looking in to a Astrolux S1 18350 in red with 18650 tube for my wife now.
Cheapest Astrolux S1 18350 I could find is at Banggood with an 18650 tube it is even cheaper than a complete package here. and you cant even choose body color, or am I doing something wrong?
I am not even going to ask “Some stop me please” now, I am deep in to this :person_facepalming: already ordered 6 flashlights even before I get one in my hands…
Oh and, I am also looking for an ON THE ROAD M3 for a right price :weary:
Spawn, it looks like you are completely right, (prices vary from time to time at BG and GB)
Well then I will wait till a coupon with good price comes around.
First flashlight arrived today, the Utorch UT01 GB beat BG with shipment speed, the BLF A6 was my first ordered flashlight at BG and I ordered the Utorch 6 days later at GB. But it was free shipment vs registered shipment, I think that does matter.
Tomorrow, I will receive the BLF Q8 if it al goes okay, I can’t test it fully because I have around 12 18650 batteries but non of these are equal anymore (used separately) So I have to wait till I get the 30Q button tops.
I can test it shortly by measuring the batteries internal resistance and find 4 +/- equal batteries. We will see.
Played little bit with UT01 and it is really nice light, I don’t have 14500 batteries yet, I ordered some 50mm length ones.
With AA I could go in all modes and programming mode, switch works okay so no issues there. I am glad I ordered another one 2 days ago