Well, there is DC-fix that you could use, which will let more of the light through the lens! And if you want to reduce the amount of light that gets focused into a beam, maybe stippling the reflector with clear coat like Old-Lumens used to do. Or, if you’re going to diffuse the lens one way or the other, take the reflector out completely or paint it white. Anything but taking sandpaper to a lens. I’ve done that, and it looks horrid! :confounded:
I did a few S2+ lenses with sandpaper (180 grit 3M branded) and it took some time but it looks very nice now. The trick may be quality sandpaper and some perseverence. I will show the Q8 lens when it is finished
Go by the gunsmith shop, have them hit the lens for a couple of seconds with bead blast media, voila! You might call and see when they’re going to be bead blasting, they like to set up work to get in the blaster and do everything and get out.
Or you could just leave like 3 lenses with them, ask for a light, medium and heavy blast whenever they get around to it. They might not even charge you anything, curious to see what you’re doing with it and such. lol
As you can see, there are 2 different tubes for the BLF Q8 and Sofirn Q8. No inter compatibility because of a slight thread change on the Sofirn Q8 for slightly better waterproofing.
Speaking of baseball bats from a post further above, can three or more of these be connected to a Q8, staying with the 4.2V parallel configuration? That would be a beast of a light.