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? 
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 it’s only got a few pieces out there yet!
Oh for a flickering or lightning mode when you need one…
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 I’d rather see a little of topic then having to say “we don’t know when it is done, waiting for input”
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 bad… Sounds like the batteries won’t die easily. The Q8 is like Bruce Willis in Die Hard.
Kumbaya, mister flooder.
That’s definitely begging for a candle flicker mode.
A campfire/candle flicker mode would certainly be fun to have for the Q8 but I’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 “off” part of the cycle, and the flash of the “on” cycle wasn’t too bright, I think it could work. The trick to being less “fake” is to be less distracting, so smaller changes in the “flicker”.
Yes, very nice! Thanks for posting djozz. :+1:
Looks like fun was had by all…. 
To late…… 
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 general… it’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 purpose… 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 LED’s it is in my G-scale train.
FF to about 1:30 and you can just make out the flickering “fire”
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 “spinning it’s wheels”…… 
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Seriously though… that is nice! Thanks for sharing……
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
I had a bit grin on my face for 3 minutes. That’s pretty neat!
There are some awesome layouts in the States, there is a few i just got to see if i ever get over there.
One must visit garden is Dennis in California i believe.
Imho the best way to put a garden to use.
Before anyone get exited, there are NO budget in large scale railroading, you fast end up with spending so much you could buy up a flashlight making company or 2.
…now wondering how a real campfire flickering looks on a luminosity graph over time. A mix of slow modulations with random ‘spikes’…? It would be interesting to record one live with a phone app. How different would it be over time, as the fire slowly burns out? What a candle would look like?
…and how you code it.
And how about the “vintage flickering” mode? Like when the light occasionally flickers to a lower brightness but you can get it working fine again by shaking it… :person_facepalming:
You would need at least a couple of colors ( red & yellow )
As per always my brain have been wandering off outside the box so many people find them self locked within.
So now i am where it might be better if you was to make a add-on like that simple cup, and then inside it have some reflectors ( clear and colored ) move around driven by a small gear reduction and a electric or mechanical drive.
This way you could use other sized flashlights with adapters and it would probably be a good idea to provide a dock as most lights to my knowledge dont do tail stand so good ( at least off table flat surface )
Sadly i have too much on my hands and my one small reduction gearbox and little motor are tied to a tightrope setup for a “flying” camera jig i am also brainstorming / working on for awesome time-lapse photography and video time-lapse.
Yes Sparky, they can get very expensive. In my hometown there was a club that bought a building and had their layout in it. During the holidays they’d open it up to the public. Too cool! No one person could afford it. You know there is a massive one in Germany, right? It’s a youtube video. But you’ll need to find it. If memory serves it’s in Hamburg. I could be wrong though.
There are fireplace videos on youtube if that helps.
FWIW, I downloaded one years ago and took it into work. During the Christmas holidays and on exceptionally cold days I would play it looping on the computer monitor for ambiance in our very industrial setting. One day a muckety muck came in and asked if we had the boiler feed on the monitor. The U&R control room had cameras on the 13 story boiler as an aid for the operators. I have no idea what he was told I simly don’t remember, but I think we just agreed with him. That video feed was hardwired into the U&R control room and not on a LAN.
OK, now I’m on a roll… I also brought in the sound of a submachine gun firing, complete with brass hitting the concrete (from a game). When management would have a scheduled meeting during a shutdown (for the required quiet for best effect) , I’d play it over the PA system. There was a price on my head if I ever got caught. Then that audio took on a life of it’s own and others would play it. I was safe.
:+1: :+1:
Maybe at one time that could have been funny; however today I think not. Too many truly crazy, derangged folks for that to be humorous to me today.
Just my opinion and I own guns