Fireflies E07 preview

Yikes! Always amazes me to see things like this. One would think, being a brand new product, literally everything about it would be pristine and perfect. Right? I mean, why not? Is it THAT hard to find good help these days? I never thought it was so difficult to turn a screw. Doesn’t have to be tight, just snug, barely tight enough to not be loose works here (the optic is going to press the bottom board down via pressure from the bezel), so why the stripped head? Nuts…

Ordinarily I wouldn’t like such a busy layout, but isn’t that just gorgeous? (aside from the obvious damage of course!)

Power screwdriver, almost guaranteed. If there’s a torque setting it’s way too strong for the job at hand. I know nobody wants to screw those little screws in by hand all day long, but still, a little bit of concern about the quality of one’s work goes a long way. :wink:

I was thinking the same thing about the torque setting. Maybe the assembler used to work on a Nascar pit crew and liked to zip those lug nuts/screws down fast and tight!

That do those three mini potentiometers (adjustable resistors in the 8:00, 10:00 and 11:00 locations) control?

The brightness of the main and LVP aux LEDs

really?


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Not only screwed up screws … but isn’t this screw also in the wrong location next to the aux emitter?

And you guys wonder why manufacturers use glue…

So the 30T fits no issues?

Yes. Anything under 70.8mm will fit without significant denting.

[quote=timbo114]
Not only screwed up screws … but isn’t this screw also in the wrong location next to the aux emitter?


How the hell does the optic fit? Must be using self drilling/tapping screws to mess up like that.

Thank you.

More spending

It doesn’t. One of the legs will be broken.

Or deliberately snipped off and then passed off…Great QC….

I have one of these inbound. I have seen the programming flow chart. But there are things to program that aren’t on that chart, right? Like 7 clicks? Would be nice if they were all added to the flowchart. And can the average Joe adjust those potentiometer thingamabobs? Crazy flashlight world getting crazier - I love it!

I’d be pretty certain that anyone with a small phillips head could adjust those potentiometers. I used to use some similar to those in some guitar fuzz pedals to set the transistor bias.

Yeah… I haven’t updated the diagram yet because there’s nowhere left to fit more actions. Also, because some lights don’t have aux LEDs so they don’t have the extra functions.

I should probably also do something to make it easier to read when printed in black and white. On a cheap print, the green lines look almost the same as the black lines.

Maybe the person who tightened the head on my BLF GT now works for FireFlies, and uses a screwdriver now :smiley:

[quote=KawiBoy1428]

they broke off one leg...

(adding the Pic after walking the baby)

I just referenced the one Vestureofblood video’d and his also has the misplaced screw… did they perhaps machine the screw hole in the wrong place and the workers are simply putting the screws where the holes are, then snipping off a leg when the optic won’t fit? So far, every one I can visualize is done this way, hope they caught it and made the necessary change, not going to be very pleased if mine is like this…

(actually, in a way, it’s so normal it’s almost funny… wrong as all get out but still… so typical…)