Toykeeper reflashed her Q8 with Anduril.
The Q8 is one of the easiest Anduril flashes you can do, next to the D4S. I recommend looking it up and getting the <$10 worth of AliExpress parts to do the job. Super rewarding.
And I am still laughing. 
Any new information on the 18350 shorty tube? I neeeed it haha.
Also replacement optics for sale anywhere? Do we know what are in this thing?
Can I request to add individual floody optics with my order? Are they easily swapped?
I got my TK style D18 last night. I was worried that it wouldn’t be floody enough to replace my M43 but the beam pattern is pretty similar. The amount of light this thing puts out is impressive.
Got mine yesterday as well, it is smaller than I thought it was based on the photos, another great Emisar!
Can a cr123 shorty tube be made? I want it!
Recieved my D18vn today, I can barely get it to work I have to screw the head on so tight! I’m using button top HG2’s. Iv’e also tried button top 30q’s with the same problem.
Also looks like it has a spring bypass… don’t know if that is factory? if its not so you think its keeping the springs from compressing enough?
Have you talked to vinh? He normally does that to support the higher power demands that a spring simply cannot do. He’s done this to a few of my vn lights.
I was able to spend a couple minutes and check things out. Looks like too much solder on springs and they cannot compress. Bummer. Emailing him now. Hopefully we figure something out.
I stopped doing spring bypasses on my lights after I got my shipment of low-resistance Be-Cu springs.
I just realize one of the batteries was a Sofirn 2200mah and not the VTC5D. I remeasured using 3x VTC5D and got 12,400 lumens at 1s. Better but still less than what I expected.
That’s pretty good. You are getting number close to ANSI.
Lumens at 1s are Ahh! and all, but are not really relevant and no one uses that measurement. I think we’d all like to see something more realistic once the output settles a bit. Maybe 15 to 30 seconds or maybe Turn on and 20 seconds so we see how it drops.
Firelight, even the Blue springs benefit from spring bypass. I chopped a D Maglite and used the Q8 reflector with it’s board and XP-L HI emitters, counting on just the springs the output seemed low, a single tail spring bypass gained 500 lumens, I removed the one on the driver and used a solid copper contact. Now the light can make the expected 5000+ lumens on a hot cell.
The collection was joined by Emisar D18.
I will say briefly, I like it very much.
Turbo withstands 30 seconds. When setting the temperature threshold to max, after 6 minutes I was able to warm it up to the temperature of 75 degrees Celsius. Beam profile similar to M43, looks reminiscent of a bejspol stick 
Amazing that you got so much lumens out of the 95 cri sst20. Its just a little bit less than my xpl hi version.
Maybe do him cleaning the contacts. I undressed the whole thing, cleaned the contacts, the tube, the brass ring, everything I could. Then I re-greased the threads, twisted and just started to play. The result did not surprise me because I was counting on those 10000. It surprises me a bit, how poorly XP-L HI is. Sky Lumen did not squeeze out too much. Maybe it’s a matter of optics and poor fitting to XP-L HI?