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

Great post PD!
It is indeed very cool to see that nice driver with Q8 on it!
BTW Winston is cute!

Use one…. Have a spare to do with whatever is determined at a later date. The price is right, for what promises to be a fantastic light.
So get, while the getting is good. :wink:
“Need” has nothing to do with it in my case. :slight_smile:

+1 on the PD post. I'm the only one having all 3 generations of prototypes, and the quality improvements from the 1st to 2nd/3rd generation was huge: the square threading, interior finish, anodizing, stainless steel bezel, button improvements - that's just what you can notice.

And, maybe Thorfire is better about this, but in general… quality tends not to be consistent over time with items manufactured in China. People are always looking for ways to increase the margins by a few cents, so parts change and designs change and after a while the thing barely resembles its original self. This is why the Q8 was created in the first place — because original-quality SRKs were no longer available.

Plus, the price will probably go up significantly after the first batch… so it’s good to get them while they’re hot.

> maybe Thorfire is better about this, but ….

Yep, “if you like it, buy a spare” has been a good approach for a while.

Of course, people look at me funny seeing me using a Treo phone and a Palm PDA.
But hey, I’ve got spares.

Do the new springs require an extra round of prototypes?

Kepling, pretty sure it was discussed that the spring change would’nt require a sample round, probably some pictures and some specs and then they’d run with it. My memory though, can get things was out of alignment, so it’d be nice to hear more on this from The Miller and/or Tom E.

I don’t think so.
The preformance on a single spring is tested with 30Q cells and a change to one bigger instead of 2 smaller can only improve things so it should be good.

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Just buy a chromecast :wink:

Is Netflix that expensive in USA?
Here it costs 20$ or so and we share the expenses with my family, since we use it with 3 families, and still everyone has their own profile.

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Nice touch, I like it!! :+1: … :smiley:

Headless me walking a friend of mine, but that’s now, when she first me she hated me just line any other new person in the house.

Now i get showered in love when we meet ( not my dog belong to my little sisters former boyfriend )
Our first walk i got dragged along and was just there for the ride, now there is no doubt in how our walks go, until we meet another dog then she go hyper and want to play as she have never learned to handle such a situation.

Slowly getting there.

O and i never owned a dog myself.

Because I have lots of lights that never get used so whats a few more. Yes I have a problem. :person_facepalming:

Is there a comparison between LED vs HID car lights?

I haven’t had time to read it but this seems the topic for car LEDs:

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When ordering 2 lights, is there an option to order the 2nd later?
Just in case i will be picked out at customs and have to pay taxes for both of them :wink:

Also received a message from Martin Freeme about the estimated price of the utorch UT03, i think it will be better to go for a second Q8.

Yok’, yes, $31 and change for my package that includes 3 DVDs and streaming. The streaming basically doesn’t work through the smart TV*, only through the computer and I only watch movies on the computer monitor when the wife has the big screen once every few months. So IMO it’s too expensive for what I get.

* Streaming now works fine through the Fire Stick. But I won’t keep both Amazon Prime and Netflix; the goal is to drop Netflix.

But the straw that broke the camels back with Netflix was their move to a simple thumbs up or thumbs down for suggestions as to whether I will like a movie. The old system was a 5 star rating that could produce a 2.6 rating (for instance). Depending on the movie I could take a chance and lots of times it worked out. Now it’s yes or no, so it’s basically a useless rating system. They want to make the decision for me and that’s not what I want at all.

So I’m looking around. FWIW, streaming works so much better through the TV with the fire stick since it uses my WiFi. So it’s LG programming that somehow screws up the streaming since the fire stick goes around LG programming within the TV. Movies now load instantly, if I pause a movie I can come back to it with no message that it can’t be done and try again later, Just better all around.

But to get full use out of it requires one to pay for premium content of some sort.

One thing the LG smart TV will do is the internet, sort of. If a race is happening in the UK and it isn’t being shown locally I can sometimes go online and find it streaming through “private” websites. But to use the internet on the TV as I’m doing now is just rubbish. It can be done, but if that was my sole method of internet access I wouldn’t be on the internet.

@Briank

I share your experience with smart TV’s.
I own a philips home theatre set (one of the most expensive ones at the time) and it is RUBBISH
Since Philips fell in Chinese hands it is crap.
The HTS was working ‘fine’ for 1 year, after that i did some firmware upgrades and gradually some features of the smart tv were disabled, and now it is not even smart anymore, nothing works, every internet feature is just disabled! (Did i pay 899€ for that crap?)
I can use the radio/cd/dvd/br functions and thats it.
Even the standby button which is a physical button on the thing does not work 9 out of 10 times, so i have to use the remote.

No i am done with philips, but the WAF was playing at the time.

I preferred a nice japanese brand.

Now i am using a 30€ chromecast and it works magnificent, my kids play youtube on the ipad and cast it to the TV, and during the evening i and/or my wife use Netflix or other media.

Works like a charm using WiFi. I think it can be compared with the firestick

I got my first TV at the tender age of 45, so if it start being a smart it will go strait for recycling plant.

Not much worth watching on flow TV, and i cant seem to find a steaming service that steam what i like to see, and that’s not mind numming series and so on.

Sadly i am forced by my landlord to pay for a cable TV package, if it wasent for that sad fact my TV would be in its box.

Arrgh! Cable! I won’t even consider it today. I must have cable for my internet (and now Amazon Prime), or pay even higher prices for decent connection rates via other means. But to get a bundled cable package is just under $100, I don’t remember the actual amount. But basically it’s near $1200/year for most channels that I have absolutely no interest in watching and don’t want to support. Maybe someday a cable company will have a package that allows me to get only the channels I want. Then I might consider cable but not until then. So I maintain an antenna.

I have to use the cable to have an internet connection, costs 60€ per month, fiberoptics is even more expensive! but the internet connection is quite good and 150Mbps :wink: