A shout out to The Miller for being Johnny on the spot to help with issues.
Ordered my two, number 700ish.
Well, theoretically the production light should be tiny bit better than the stock prototypes. It's got double springs now. I'd rate it at ~5,400 lumens on good Samsung 30Q BT's. My numbers posted in the OP were 5,620 in my light box, but I'd assume my setup measures a little high. At turn on with SONY VTC6 or VTC5A's with quality button tops, or soldered tops (brass or copper discs), you could expect 6,000 lumens. Add some tweaks, and bump it up a little. Swap in XPL2 high bin LED's, even more of a bump.
On my proto round 3 light, mods: 16 AWG wires soldered in to stock 18 AWG, spring bypasses, tail PCB bypasses, and VTC6 solder tops:
6,800 at start, 6,375 at 30 secs, 66 kcd (514m) taken at 5m
Forgot bout this chart, but more complete list of readings:
Well good night!
What a rollercoaster this thread was today.
And what an impressive amount of pre orders, pretty cool how fast that went up and is going up.
Ordered my 2
@Q8 Team - Thank you very much for all your hard work!!
Signed.
wow…so order now, and it still takes over a month to even ship ?
Ordered. Thanks to everyone that made this project happen. Good stuff.
I have ordered my share of 2, thank you very much.
Ordered! Thanks to everyone for making this happen!
On the waaayyy! (well,sort of).Thanks to all involved for their hard work.
Ordered. Thanks …
Ordered, Thanks for all the work to make this happen!
Ordered mine!
Thanks to everyone involved in this project for making it happen.
No. That’s probably more like the “public” launch date. The first 500 units of Q8 are already built and ready to ship. The next batch is probably only a week or so out, and so on.
Are the expected shipping dates in the banggood order page correct? I had my order in about 2 minutes after the PM was sent out (showed around 15 pre-orders when I ordered) and my expected ship date still shows 2017-10-07.
Ordered my 3, thanks for all the hard work guys.
Any tips where to get some batteries from (I’m in the UK).
Ordered my 6. Thanks for the hard work Q8 team, and thank you The Miller for taking the time to send out the PM’s manually.
Tried to order my 1 light, seems banggood doesn’t accept my paypal. Ongoing issue with this problem. My orders from banggood have all but ceased because of this issue.
Ordered my 1 
:+1: :sunglasses:
I will wait till later for comments.
Unless necessary LET’S PLEASE GIVE The Miller A BREAK unless you are having ordering problems. We don’t want to use him up before the next round of group buying begins 
Phil