Sofirn Q8 group buy (gb closed, but try PM to Sofirn for discount)

Guess that’s what I’ll do with this Q8 I’m about to build. 12 Samsung LH351D in 80 CRI 5000k with 4 XP-L HI V3 3A in the center. A “44 Mag” Q8. Should be bright.

Manxbuggy1 and his brother, rdrfronty, came over a little while back and rdrfronty had the 25,000 lumens Fenix (I think that’s right). Interestingly enough my light box recorded it almost exactly at the factory ANSI specs. But of course my modified Meteor at 18,940 lumens is questionable. It’s also too hot for Anduril, causes it to glitch and shut down at about 15 seconds. So in this case, as in some others, a 30 second reading is just not possible.

Everyone that see’s this M43 is staggered by it’s output, to a person they are all amazed that you can’t even look towards the ceiling due to the intensity. (I ceiling bounce to light the room so they can see the impact of it’s power)

It’s along these lines that I intend to build this Q8, only with 4 extra emitters in the XP-L HI variant for some center downrange punch. [The Meteor has 4 triples, hence M43, this one will have 4 quads, so Q8 44 MAG, an acronym for Most Audacious Guffaw, lol ] Yes, 16 emitters vs the 12 in my Meteor. This Q8 will have a new “head” piece carved from a bar of 4” 6061. :wink: I expect upwards of 24,000 lumens in this light. All the needed bits are either here or en-route… the carrier style extension tubes will be most welcome when they become available. :slight_smile:

Dale, if you carry on modifying more and more Q8s people might call you "Mr.Q8" or maybe just "Q" as in James Bond. :-P

They can call me what they wish, as long as they don’t call me late for supper. :stuck_out_tongue:

(this will be my 5th Q8, I’ve done maybe 40 X6’s… just sayin.)

I wonder how far this will get once you get ahold of the new q8 extension tubes…just thinkin’…4p2s or let’s say 4p4s (actually no idea if that works)…with 4x XHP70.2 driven hard to their limits….must be some kind of “atomic flash” when you hit the button. :smiley: :sunglasses:

My minds eye just flashed a vision from “Back to the Future” of the wildhaired guy flashing out of sight!

Dr. Emmett L. Brown? ;-)

So I should be using SS and a food processor?

What’s the Contingency Plan if the massive lumen burst does not deter the the intruder at 3 am & he keeps coming… in a blinded state of course Need I even ask…… :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

I’m betting it has something to do with possible ‘lead poisioning’. :wink:

I have arranged for Mr. Dick Casull to talk them into leaving the premises. He encourages them to leave peacefully, in a horizontal position. :wink:

:+1: … Yep, Mr. Casull does have a very persuasive way with ’words’. :+1:

As do a few other of his peers…… :wink:

In this case it might be considered LED poisoning!

woulda thought light saber, maybe?

or burning laser like The Andromeda Strain

Well, you’d better be off somewhere else at 3:07AM if the demon infests your house and neither 10.000 lumens nor Mr. Smith‘n Wesson can help you out... }) }D

Talking about security and blinding an attacker, you can try this yourself. Try to look at your Sofirn Q8 from a distance of 1m, strobe or 100% ON, it’s extremely deterring. You’d need at least a 100k cd value on the target to truly have any excellent chance to prevent an attacker from advancing towards you, such that he’d need to put his hands in front of his face and not have direct sight on you holding the flashlight. ie effectively blind.

That lux value on his face plus a reasonably big sized hotspot as you’d be in a panic situation so no extreme throwers please.

Try out the effect yourself with your flashlights.

Actually you don’t need flashlights, you can just try it by looking at the sun during summer.
A 100% beam or strobe would be fine.

You should be armed with some pepper spray or longish stun gun. Don’t need lethal weapons.

Of course if the perpetrator has a pistol or worse automatic machine gun so that he could spray in the direction of the light, then all bets are off.

Anyone that breaks into your house in the night is a deadly threat and should be treated as such

:+1: …. Amen to that!! … + 1000

I’d love to pump a perpetrator/attack full of lead or copper in my house but unfortunately guns are banned here. Actually stun guns/mace/pepper sprays/long hobby knives too.
So we only have kitchen knives and choppers. :frowning: But it works both ways, both the attacker and me would not have access to guns/sprays, so it’s an even playing field in those regards.
I still can carry a flick type manual hobby/tactical knive like a CRKT M16 or even an EDC type of knife, they do get past customs extremely often via certain channels, but good luck to myself should i get myself into a routine police spot-check which is of a much higher probability than getting mugged/raped here in my country.

The idea of self-defence with a flashlight is not new. It might not even be in the house, but even during a run in the park (my country is very safe, but still people do get robbed and raped during runs around the more secluded parts of parks and reservoir areas etc).

There are many ways to this. (1) Disorients the attacker with pure lumens/lux, this is something that would be of the most interest to flashaholics. :cowboy_hat_face: (2) Tactical flashlights as an attacking tool, an improvised weapon. An attack front bezel does the most damage but of course it might not be always legal. (3) Both of the above : Utilize point 1 first, then apply point 2 during the window of opportunity when his vision is screwed with bright purple spots all over his retina FOV and perhaps extremely disoriented due to the police strobe effect.
ie blind n disorient with flashlight, then poke him with it. :smiley:

With all that being said, i think the Sofirn Q8 is a somewhat effective tool. At 1-2 metres, there is enough lux (100k to 25k) esp in a darkened environment. The hotspot size is not overly small, at 1 metre it actually is approx the size of a human head and is not overly difficult to aim optimally, 2 metres is even better while maintaining enough lux.
A soda can light is also about the max that you can comfortably carry (even when running) majority of the time be it holstered or in the pants, either that or a Convoy L6 style light in the back pocket with the head sticking out.

Top it off with a Klarus XT11GT with an strike attack bezel and it’d be very nice indeed, everything is done while staying perfectly legal in 99% of countries out there.

I mentioned “somewhat effective” tool, coz seriously IMO, it’d be better if we have the Imalent R90C performance squeezed into a soda can light, 500k-1M cd and 20000 lumens.
Unfortunately that means next-gen LEDs, or more possibly matured LEP tech. Better battery tech with a revolutionary change is also welcomed too.

That’s not what I am seeing in the potential for a weapon Q8.

Just strap on the extension tubes, bypass everything in the light, use Luxeon Vs, and let her rip as an attack weapon :slight_smile:

Quite literally. It would be a sun baton :wink: