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

I appreciate the updates Dale, ALL of them. :wink: . Hang in there my friend. :slight_smile:

Nothing of actual relevance? Go somewhere else. Please? :cry:

Why so Serious? :rage: Lighten UP, life is SHORT! :smiley:

I like BLF the way it is, and I hope it stays the way it is, which is FUN! :wink: I’m a firm believer and supporter of Rule #9 :+1:

http://budgetlightforum.com/forum/misc/siterules

+432.65 …. 110% agree. Nothing going on at the moment, might as well be jovial. :smiley:

Somewhat like the quote below suggests…… :wink:

Same here, that is how I always do it also.

I will turn on PM notification when expecting something like will be coming for th Q8. Otherwise it is turned off also… :slight_smile:

Dang, well stated KB! . :+1: … :beer:

Rule #9…… I love it!! :sunglasses:

Awesome, that’s my favorite topic. I’m full of irrelevance… or was that irreverence?

They still can… but I added a stylesheet to hide anything deeper than three levels. Sometimes though, we get some pretty epic quote nesting:

We really need to get you back on the front burner somehow.

Don’t worry; that’s just part of the process of becoming a flashlight deity. The pain will go away in a few more months when your halo pops out.





Fun is mandatory.

Violators will be tickled.




Amen……. :wink:

Oh my. Your quite out of date aren’t you?

Most of the bright blue lights you see are HID kits that have retrofitted. These have been popular for the last 10 or 12 years ever since the OEMs started using them. People just toss them in and don’t readjust their lights. Or else the light source is not where it should be and it messes up the beam pattern.

Leds in cars is a relatively new thing the last 2 or 3 years. There are not many out there on the road yet. Most led kits use big round leds that are bright (some are not), but don’t mix well with reflectors. Again the beam patterns get all screwed up.

Led headlights are still in their infancy and are moving away from fan cooled and huge emitters to passive cooling and small emitter groups that mimic the size, shape and location of the original filaments. These will give very good beam patterns as well as much more brightness.

On a projector light, the light source is less critical because you have the cutoff shield which prevents glare.

“Good” led lights for reflectors are quite hard to find.

Here are some “good” leds I found for my 86 Honda motorcycle that has a reflector headlight. Note the sharp cutoff (just like stock), plus it’s much brighter than stock.

Stock:

“Good” led:

Here is the key to good beam pattern with LED.

Forget about it. The thread’s been hijacked by a bunch of people who clearly get enjoyment in annoying others. They’re in here specifically because they get a lot of visibility. You know, like a bunch of attention seeking teens with too much time on their hands, except without the excuse of being young. No amount of arguing will reason with people who don’t give a damn about others because “we’re having fun in here”.

Well personally I prefer the off topic banter than nothing at all when there is nothing to report, I suppose you would complain about lack of posts if there were days or even weeks between posts due to no off topic posts, besides where is the on topic content in your post :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyways back to “we’re having fun in here”.

Cheers David

Hmm, in the people having fun in this thread I do not recognise ‘attention seeking’ and ‘enjoyment in annoying others’. I just see people having fun, that’s all, IMO off-topic fun is a good tradition on BLF (and there’s no age limit for that! :slight_smile: )

+1 :+1: … Thanks for saying that nicely David! I can now just agree with you and be spared writing something not so “pleasant”. :smiley:
Now… back to our regularly scheduled program of “childish attention seeking fun” while also patiently awaiting news of the Q8 variety. :wink:

Another well written, nice reply! +1 :+1:
You guys are great!!! You have litterally save me from death by RUDE button. :open_mouth:
Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU!!! :smiley:

No, I would not. We’ve had slow weeks before in this thread and it was just fine. In fact, this thread was fine for the better part of a year. It’s only recently that it has become a mess.

I get it that people are waiting and bored and some have a lot of time to kill. But that does not have to be done in here. I mean, would you lot go stomp on RMM’s store thread that way? Surely not! At least not that I’ve seen so far on BLF. So why the lack of respect for this project?

And stop with the excuses of “just read the topic/first post”. You know very well that not everything discussed ends up in there. And that which does often does only after the discussion is done.

Well when something turns into something real like the car LEDs it would be nice to starts separate topic for it, if only to gt info easy to find strengthening the BLF knowledge base :wink:

Pilotdog68 has received his as well, yay

Is’nt it up to the OP to decide if (s)he wants/doesn’t want OT posts in his/her thread? In this case it is up to the miller to decide I guess, after all it’s his thread and he has to stay on top of things to keep the list updated and answer relevant questions.
I don’t really get annoyed by the OT chatter but when I see like +20 new posts I always hope for some relevant info (batteries, chargers, lenses, LED…) and it’s kind of a let down when it has nothing todo with the Q8. But if the Miller is ok with it who am I to complain. Life’s to short anyway to complain bout what I see on my screen.

So what’s up with the other 2 Q8 proto types? To who where they send and is there any tracking info?
Edit: ok Pilotdog got his jeey, must have posted simultaneously .

Who said it? “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

PD68 has his
Only DEL needs to receive it

I hope Thijsco and PD68 can find the time to post (a little) about their lights :wink:

So the title can be updated, since 6 out of 7 received their sample #3
:sunglasses:

Anybody else see where this could be going?

M4D M4X had his ‘New Blog’ discussion thread locked, and all posts except for the OP excluded once a Lynch Mob mentality took over, exacerbated by xenophobia and nationalistic slurs.

A thread questioning whether BLF has become less friendly answered it’s own query by bringing out pent up hostility from a single individual, initially aimed at one of the best known, highly respected, most humble, considerate, and generous contributors at BLF.

Once again, BLF’s guiding light and angel/overseer had to step in to provide a ‘Reality Adjustment’ by locking the thread.
Looking back, the Meteor Sales and Discussion thread generated the ‘How many Meteors do you own’ thread, giving birth to the Meteor GAW thread, and the ‘Why not a group buy for a decent SRK clone’ concept that has become known as this ‘Q8’ thread. Open ended discussion and free thought is fundamental for such evolution.

Creative processes stepping ‘outside the box’ are not like faucets able to be turned on and off. Left brain/right brain hemispheric interaction, logic inspired and/or stimulated by imagination along with open ended neural architecture juggling corollaries can be basic to genius thinking and problem solving. We might step into a shower, and then find an answer appearing in a flash when the logistical thought processes surrender themselves; listening to relaxing music, or meditation can do the same.

What seems like meandering, off topic foolishness can also be part of the ‘process’ TK mentions as being what interests her the most. I doubt many of the progenitors of the Q8 project need another flashlight; their reward is traveling the path, not merely arriving at the destination.

While Impatience, anxiety and frustration are forming a multi-headed monster hungry to consume another BLF thread, ThorFire could be wondering about the fugliness, eventually arriving at a conclusion such as Alexandra Wentworth was fond of offering during her days at Living Color….

“Chaaaaahh, you know vat???…….Unh Unh !!!

Edit:

Thanks man, clearly I had a fixation (or a physical/emotional perturbation) from the playfully erotic, and more attractive Alexandra Wentworth at that time.
It was so bad, I never even noticed young Jennifer Lopez in the cast of dancers on Living Color back then.