Q8, PMS SEND TO THOSE WITH ISSUES BLF soda can light

Most of these chargers use 5% components, so thus they would have a 1% tolerance at best, so it makes sense that not all of them would charge the same. Most of them say they charge to 4.2v =/-1%. So that means they could charge as high as 4.242v or as low as 4.158v while still being in tolerance.

Going to smaller then 1% components vastly increases the cost and is rare to see nor really needed. A good calibration can have them very consistent and accurate even with 1% components. Most of them are not properly calibrated though due to costs.

Off topic (of chargers that is... ), just started a new thread on NarsilM here: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/45888

Nice Tom!
Hope lots of people start playing with it in other lights then the Q8 :slight_smile:

Off-topic again from the charger discussion: camping with proto3

Hereā€™s another beamshot of the prototype, control and beamshot not the same camera settings but it is both about what you see in reality. Nearest tree at 10 meter, campfire at 20 meter, tree in hotspot 40 meter, birch tree to the right of hotspot tree 60 meter, little building 70 meter.

We were not allowed a large fire because lf the drought and remarkably proto3 with a yellow plastic cup on top became the center of the group instead of the fire (the evenings were really warm so the fire was not needed for warmth), the next evening it was an orange+pink cup.(Iā€™m not in the pictures :innocent: )


I do not know the drive current while serving as camping light (I chose a pleasurable setting in ramping mode) but after two nights with at least 10 hours of use, the 30Qā€™s were still at 4.05V.

Nice pics Djozz
That cup and brightness setting off the Q8 on that last pic gives it a fire-like look, sweet!

Nice djozz. :slight_smile:

This thread has over 8000 posts. Its hard to stay up to date with this flashlight.
Please do not post hundreds of posts with discussions of batteries, chargers and so on. That would make it easier to follow this topic.

How about hot peppers?

I know there was talk about a lightning mode but what about a campfire mode? :wink:

So, a medium low level with an orange and pink cup and one Ghost Pepper made for a nice campfire setting with scary stories, how great is that! Epic light, and itā€™s only got a few pieces out there yet!

Oh for a flickering or lightning mode when you need oneā€¦

The real important things call for a topic title change and a link to the post from where it is talked about. Now it is waiting and Iā€™d rather see a little of topic then having to say ā€œwe donā€™t know when it is done, waiting for inputā€ :wink:
And I saw the charging with a non standard bought charger already has lead to a different topic so that is cool right.

4.05V after two nights? Not badā€¦ Sounds like the batteries wonā€™t die easily. The Q8 is like Bruce Willis in Die Hard.

Kumbaya, mister flooder.

Thatā€™s definitely begging for a candle flicker mode.

A campfire/candle flicker mode would certainly be fun to have for the Q8 but Iā€™m pretty sure that at least in our camping group that would be considered so over the top fake that it would not be used seriously. :party:

djozz, if the flicker/candle mode were mixed in to the ramping levels, so that the general lighting level was the ā€œoffā€ part of the cycle, and the flash of the ā€œonā€ cycle wasnā€™t too bright, I think it could work. The trick to being less ā€œfakeā€ is to be less distracting, so smaller changes in the ā€œflickerā€.

Yes, very nice! Thanks for posting djozz. :+1:
Looks like fun was had by allā€¦. :slight_smile:

To lateā€¦ā€¦ :smiley:

I think the time for staying strictly on-topic has come and gone and come and gone again. Brevity no longer matters. Not just in this thread, but for BLF in generalā€¦ itā€™s a playground, not a press release. Some threads here are more disciplined, but not many.

Besides, The Miller keeps the good stuff indexed and updated in the first post or two. The rest is mostly how we pass the time until release, and also has a side effect of keeping the thread on the front page for more visibility. The lengthy brainstorming and chatter has also significantly influenced the design of the light. So, it may be a mess, but it serves a purposeā€¦ or several purposes. And for those who want a slow trickle of updates instead of a raging river, the topic and first post cover everything really important.

Hehe i have that campfire mode, but while it is LEDā€™s it is in my G-scale train.

FF to about 1:30 and you can just make out the flickering ā€œfireā€

I was actually thinking in this regard, would it be possible to suspend something inside the cup that the convection heat from the light could make turn, and by doing that have little offset reflectors maybe colored move around.

Sort of the same you can do with candles making something spin.

Your G-scale is just ā€œspinning itā€™s wheelsā€ā€¦ā€¦ :open_mouth:
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Seriously thoughā€¦ that is nice! Thanks for sharingā€¦ā€¦ :slight_smile:

Big boys, big toys.

And G-scale are big by Danish standards as most other people do Ho.

And me hell i dont even have track myself i drive in my friends garden when he or i can bother to free up the 30 - 40 - 50 M of track.

Looking forward to getting the next big toy :wink:

I had a bit grin on my face for 3 minutes. Thatā€™s pretty neat!