Status changed to SHIPPED.
My olive-green shipped yesterday as well, ordered Sep 24th - no tracking #, yet maybe?
Freeme? I heard that this light will have a bit more throw than Fireflies E07. I like throw but I also like flood. I love the combo the BLF Q8 has, great flood and a decent throw. Could they make a lense for these that would make them a bit more floody? Like the one Fireflies Rot66 gen2 has. A simple lense change makes the light a bit of a flooder. I have ordered several of these MF01 MINIs and I would also like to order some lenses like that for them. Could you make that happen?
I, like yourself, like combination of flood and throw. But I was confused by your message below. If you want a beam profile BLFQ8 has, I would think they will need to make the MF01s mini more throwy, not more floody. I can’t inagine the mf01s mini having a defined throwy hot spot like the Q8. See, I’m wishing for the opposite, for a thrower mf01s mini, and I would think you’d like that too. I don’t think mf01smini will be as throwy/no flood as you believe…
Well, to me a thrower is a light with narrow far reaching beam. Like the astrolux ft03. BLF Q8 has much wider beam and and also a side flood beam that illuminates a whole area, not just a spot. But thats what I consider flood throw, I am in now way expert at this, just casual enthusiastic user.
Frosted lens?
Depends which astrolux ft03. The older one basically had one narrow beam throwing far and very little flood while the newer version 4300lm with xhp 50.2 has a good combination of flood and still a center hot spot, narrow beam going forward. I have both of them and like the latter more, of course it eats the battery faster though…
Added……In fact, my dream light would have been the beam profile and longer time on turbo of the new astrolux ft03 with xhp50.2 with 4300 lumens or close to 5000, somehow placed in a body of a thrunite tc20. I believe this will be possible within 6 months in not earlier. That’s my prediction……
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Frosted lens?
I was thinking more like 45 degree beed surface TRI lens. Like the one
you can see in the fourth picture of this flashlight: https://banggood.app.link/xkxh4Q7mM0
The Q8 is reflector based and has unique characteristics as such. When I was on the Q8 team, there was a tendency by some to call it a flooder and I always had to correct them, saying no - it's a decent thrower as well. The Q8's head diameter is big enough to accommodate decent size reflectors, and with 4, it generates decent throw but relatively shallow reflectors gets a fairly bright spill area as well. TIR optics is a whole different thing - mostly not as focused as reflectors, and if they are, not as much spill. Very different characteristics.
We picked 4 LEDs for the Q8 for a reason - we felt it's the best combo of flood and throw from that head size, with sacrificing the extra lumens more LED's would give us, and keep the costs reasonable.
Sounds like you would prefer the spill and hot spot of a reflector light, but with a high # of LED's in such a small diameter, TIR optics is a more practical solution. In the past, they may have gone with 7 tiny reflector cups, but not sure if that would be doable in keeping the head diameter small as it is. Guess it's doable since they can get like 16 LED's in a Q8 size SRK now.
I tend to prefer reflector bases optics as well. That's why I ordered a Amutorch AX4 (4 LED's), after enjoying the Amutorch AX3 (2 LED's) so much. Today, it seems old fashioned not to have TIR optics, but there's something I prefer about the beam you get from reflectors.
That actually doesnt look that bad, but if they made that 45° bead surface optics I would buy some.
I have the Mateminco mt-07 with 7x xpl-hi 5000k and I also have the fireflies E7 v2 with the same LEDs.
The mt –07 has a better grip, consumes something else, heats something up, light up a little more, weighs almost the same with a 21700 and is a bit more flooding than the E7.
USB loading leds are good!
The two flashlights are excellent
Love the Q8, it’s one of my favorites. Kudos to you man. If only it had 3 batteries and not 4, for a better grip, it’d be perfect…
Different people, different preferences. I like the fact that there are 4 of them. More capacity, less of a strain on batteries and the size also gives more metal to cool the leds. Plus some of us have giant hands and like the size. The only think I would add today to Q8 today (years after development) is integrated charger, USB C for example. That would be a nice upgrade.
I doubt it is the same. The price (€ 7) and the cheap design of the plastic make me doubt a bit … surely a re-shedding or worse.
5500 mah and 20A continuous for € 7? no thanks.
An efest, golisi etc, are worth more than double and have less capacity. 4200-4300)
For the flashlights that I use a lot I like a good average between power and capacity. That’s why in the E7 and in this model I use 40t
In other flashlights that I use less time and I want a good turbo I put vtc5a,
Yes, the SP36 is really the Q8 upgrade. Just wish it had an ss bezel.
The Anduril SP36 is amazing, but let’s face it: it’s not very attractive looking. Perhaps my priorities are backward but I can’t help it looks like a barrel with a green dot.
Ordered on the 26th and still processing. Cant wait for this light to arrive! Now, what color goes with green? Brass seems nice. I’ll be running the Efest 4200mah 50A cells. Max continuous discharge is 35 amps.
I’m having a bit of trouble understanding you, so sorry in advance.
Are you thinking the Shockli 5500mah sold at Banggood is a fake? Banggood stands behind their batteries and do not knowingly sell fakes. If they happen to receive some fakes and then sell them on to you as genuine, they will refund your money.
Is the Shockli 5500mah a rewrap? Yes, it is. Same for the Keeppower 6000 and 5500 and Efest 5500. They are all rewraps of the PLB Power Long Battery 5500mah. It is a newish high capacity cell and the highest capacity 26650 on the market.