Last thing I heard is that one of their engineers by accident reversed one battery in an unprotected prototype of the Q8 carrier and that scared the h*ll out of him. That is when they decided on physical reverse polarity protection and thus it will not work with flat tops. But it may well be a very easy mod to remove that protection.
But, as I understood, the 2-carrier,8batteries,8P battery tube is not finished yet, they are not satisfied on details and are still working on it.
On further reflection, as much as the Q8 is a BLF classic. 4x18650 cells really are more battery than I want/need which is what has kept me from getting one up to now, it would just sit un-used.
I can’t seem to find the thread, but I remember someone else pointed out that another company used a white plastic ring around the contact point to allow button tops and flat tops.
Can you remove me from the list and allow someone else to purchase from Amazon US? Thanks.
Astrolux uses a really nice white plastic ring that is just tall enough to prevent the negative end of a cell from touching, but still allow the flat positive end to touch. I just mentioned this on a ROT66 thread. Getting these tolerances are hard, though. Sofirn may just suggest button tops in the carrier like the current Q8. If you don’t have button tops, solder blob them.
Most excellent getting rid of the battery flats, Love full round battery tubes, but is it possible to get rid of the vertical grooves going thru those beautiful knurled rings for the win! :+1:
The MCPCB is of course DTP. It would not make sense to not use a DTP MCPCB since the BLF Q8 features it already, and most lights already do. Therefore, the Sofirn Q8 will feature one of course.
AR lens? Depends on where they source it. Some AR lens are just bad in terms of tint, like in the prototype AR lens for the Q8, and the Kaidomain AR lens.
If they can get a similar one to the Kaidomain AR lens, that would be great.
I’m saying that if I order one of these Sofirn Q8s lights, I’m going to mod it to replace the CW emitters with something else, and since I don’t have anything else to do with them, I’d sell them and the MCPCB as a unit so someone who already has a Q8 and likes CW, so they can have an easy mod and I can cover some of the cost of a new MCPCB and whatever emitters I go with.
This setup is super common in the Vape industry, and works extremely well. Nobody uses button tops. Barry just needs to get with some Vape companies in Shenzhen.
Excuse the dirt in this 3yr old mod. Ready to replace it, but it won’t die. This one is made by Wismec