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

[KawiBoy1428]

@ToyKeeper

But seriously, people may have somewhat shorter fuses than usual with all the stuff happening outside BLF lately… it seems like the whole world is on edge. Hundreds of people waiting together in a cramped space like this is going to cause some friction even on a good day, and there have been a lot of not-so-good days lately.

So as a general guideline, any time you are faced with a decision of whether to escalate or not, please take a deep breath and choose not to escalate unfortunate situations. Strong opinions can be very satisfying to express, and they can attract a lot of attention, but they tend to be divisive and cause conflict.

If you must get frustrations out, direct them toward Moloch, the incarnation of the system itself. Because almost no one is evil; the problem is that almost everything is broken. It’s almost never malicious intent which causes our problems but, rather, the systems in which we live. In almost any complex multi-person system, the system acts according to its own chaotic incentives that don’t necessarily correspond with what any individual within the system wants.

Now, in a relatively small system, individual efforts to go against the flow are important. A few people swimming upstream can have a significant impact on the overall flow of the system. However, in larger systems, individual efforts are mostly irrelevant. The flow will follow the shortest path toward the incentives regardless of individual attempts to divert it in other directions. It does what Moloch wants, not what the people trapped in the system want.

As the thread grows, and as BLF grows, we keep bumping into Moloch in new ways… and we keep having to come up with new solutions for that. The lessons learned here will surely help future projects to run a little smoother, but for now please try to be patient and charitable toward each other.

Beautiful! The pic of the guy holding the sign is priceless, pretty much say’s it all!

[Yokiamy]

@teacher

For any & all interested…… Here is an on-topic Q8 announcement. Quoted below for any who might have missed it.

@The Miller

Pilotdog68 has received his as well, yay

7 out of 7!
Yeehoooo!

[teacher]

:+1: ….

[teacher]

@JasonWW

@teacher

OK…. Thank you for the info. Yeah the “ugly blue” was what I was wondering about?
Come to think of it maybe the blue tinted headlights I am thinking about may not even be LED’s??? I just know when an oncoming car has them they are blinding… to me anyway.

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.

Hmmmm, out of date? I don’t think so……

Here is my newest model…….
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Probably a bit out of date on the LED headlights. But not the HID’s.

That is why I included the codicil in the statement you quoted. My memory had started to rear it’s ugly head as I wrote that.

That was some good headlight info you posted, thanks. :+1:

I just know I cuss oncoming cars that have those stark blue/white headlights.
My horse dislikes them too.
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[dekozn]

@Yokiamy

@teacher

For any & all interested…… Here is an on-topic Q8 announcement. Quoted below for any who might have missed it.

@The Miller

Pilotdog68 has received his as well, yay

7 out of 7!
Yeehoooo!

Pics or it didn’t happen
Any news on the springs? Guess that will be for next week…

[The_Miller]

No DEL has yet to receive his
Will change title to 6 out of 7 next time I do the list

Thorfire said they can do the spring as we asked:
Or better, I asked for this:

1mm wire thickness
10mm diameter base
6 or 7 mm diameter top
12 or 13mm height

[dekozn]

So this means single bigger fatter springs instead of double springs?

[teacher]

@The Miller

Thorfire said they can do the spring as we asked:
Or better, I asked for this:

1mm wire thickness
10mm diameter base
6 or 7 mm diameter top
12 or 13mm height

Nice!!!

@dekozn

So this means single bigger fatter springs instead of double springs?

Yep…. :+1:

[DB_Custom (Dale)]

Better to carry current and easier to bypass.

[Yokiamy]

@dekozn

So this means single bigger fatter springs instead of double springs?

Yes.

@The Miller

No DEL has yet to receive his
Will change title to 6 out of 7 next time I do the list

Thorfire said they can do the spring as we asked:
Or better, I asked for this:

1mm wire thickness
10mm diameter base
6 or 7 mm diameter top
12 or 13mm height

Sorry for the misinterpretation and false hope that i created by spreading around that everyone received their Q8 sample, since Del does not have his latest sample yet.
My bad
I think i am going sitting in to the corner and cry now

[dekozn]

So everything is ready to go? Springs have been agreed upon and the firmware has been updated. I don’t think there where any other issues with these prototypes or am I missing something? So when PilotDog has played around with his light an DEL receives his and both don’t find any issues it’s a go right?

[Tom_E]

Ahhhhh - no word back bout the springs...

[The_Miller]

No argh on my part, Barry didn’t click are all
Springs how we want +
Manual 4 pages fine +
Manual in 4 pages means not able to store in tail +/-
Last is just Joechina making abbew cheat sheet for people to print and fold
Sorry will forward it now

[teacher]

@Yokiamy

@dekozn

So this means single bigger fatter springs instead of double springs?

Yes.

@The Miller

No DEL has yet to receive his
Will change title to 6 out of 7 next time I do the list

Thorfire said they can do the spring as we asked:
Or better, I asked for this:

1mm wire thickness
10mm diameter base
6 or 7 mm diameter top
12 or 13mm height

Sorry for the misinterpretation and false hope that i created by spreading around that everyone received their Q8 sample, since Del does not have his latest sample yet.
My bad
I think i am going sitting in to the corner and cry now :cry:

Good idea… “false hope” might be contagious. … :person_facepalming: ….

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BUT, on the other hand; who cares?? Honest mistake my friend.

Carry on………

[blinker]

Isn’t that enough on topic talk?

[dekozn]

dude, please give it a rest and don’t try to antagonize people

[The_Miller]

Yes we do have some on topic talk, yay!

[Yokiamy]

Another on topic question;

Can anyone explain why you would need more then 1 Q8?

I was thinking to subscribe for another one, just because it will be such a great and good light (just because it is possible!), but i have only 2 hands, so what are people with more then 2 going to do with it?

Give as a present for friends or relatives?

Hoping for some additional information!

[nqcken]

give them away as gifts.

[BrianK]

Once in awhile, the Miller! OK, we had it, now how do we pass the time? How about we just glare at each other through the silence?

ROTFL! I loved the levity Blinker but not everyone will.

Stop smiling! You’re not here to enjoy yourselves! (according to that POM supervisor written of above somewhere, BTW, that’s almost a direct quote from her)

Hey, I know! We bought an Amazon Fire TV stick yesterday. I was told “Buy the stick and there are all sorts of shows and movies available, you can probably drop Netflix.”. Well, yes and no, mostly no. There are shows available, but it’s one show of a 3 season tv show. I didn’t see any free movies of any worth. But Netflix is costing me $30+ every month and the good movies mostly don’t stream but are only on DVD. I’m testing a 30 day trial of Amazon Prime for $11/month and the streaming movies look to be good ones. Plus the smart TV was the pits with Netflix. The movies would take forever to load. If paused they might never resume. I had no love affair with it. The stick makes Netflix operate as good with streaming movies as they run on my computer. So keep Amazon Prime or Netflix, the stick makes our “smart” TV finally fulfill it’s promise. Oh, YouTube! That would be the thousands of free movies (videos). I saw no others. It is nice to see youtube videos on the big screen though.

Did I miss something? Or not?

I’m considering getting a Roku for local TV stations when the atmosphere doesn’t cooperate. Anyone with any Roku experience? I have a few more HDMI ports that I can use if Roku will get my wife her game shows and us our local news and weather when we want it instead of when the atmosphere tells us we can have it. No I won’t pay for cable; they want far too many $ monthly for junk channels that I’ll never watch.