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

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:

The fastest I can get is 60Mps, but I think we’re presently at 25. I ought to call and get the upgrade since it’s basically free, but I’m not having problems at 25 so IMO it just isn’t worth making the call.

OT, same experience here with smart TV’s. Slow and klunky with less than ideal UI.

Instead I run a 20ft hdmi cable from the gaming/entertainment PC to the receiver and use a wireless mouse and sometimes keyboard to navigate Netflix/YouTube/Light Gaming/etc on the big screen TV. Universal remote sets everything to the correct input with a push of a button.

Come on, I think PD68s impressions deserve a little more attention and are more interesting then cables and ISP stuff :wink:

Yes, he certainly took great pictures of the light :smiley:

From his pictures it seems that the plastic rings are not higher than the brass ring. I think this was brought up before. Can someone confirm that it will not act as protection against a reversed cell? Seems like the only protection in that case will be the cell’s wrapper. Better have a big fat warning about cell orientation somewhere because that design makes it look like it’s safe while it’s really not.

Noteworthy, if confirmed.
Is there a draft of the instruction text floating around anywhere?

I posted bout this in detail. The inner plastic is definitely lower while the outer plastic is slightly lower than the brass contact ring. Dunno if any other proto holders can tell any better.

If the outer plastic was raised above the contact ring, than the stock SANYO GA cells (no button tops) would not work, but they do work just fine. The GA tops are wider than the brass ring.

I thought all the cells we are recommending do have the wrapper to prevent reverse contact? Is that not really good?

Yes confirm
Manual is in one of the first posts Q8, PMS SEND TO THOSE WITH ISSUES BLF soda can light - #3 by The_Miller

Thank you for your time, in sharing your observations of this Q8 with us pilotdog68 ! :+1:

Yes you did Tom… I remember reading the post. It was very detailed and seems good enough as far as I am concerned. :+1:
Everything in life cannot be dumbed down to the least common denominator… there are trade off’s. :slight_smile:

Nice rundown of your Q8 impressions PD…sounds good. :slight_smile: Thank you. :+1:
Winston looks like a ‘keeper’. :slight_smile:

I also found it useful to read:
https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/45888

For details on driver and modes.

Makes sense to keep it this way if it allows some flat tops to work as is. But perhaps drop any mention of reverse polarity protection, if there are any besides the first post driver design section. While technically it is there, it’s only of any use if you put all cells the wrong way around and they make contact.

I’m not sure I’d trust the wrapper rubbing against the brass ring to keep preventing contact for very long. This is definitely a light where you’ll want to double check cell orientation before screwing it back together. That should be made very clear to buyers.

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Well said fixed it :+1:

Good point fixed, will add a line in bold in the manual to be cautious with cell orientation.
Yes we want the enclosed manual to be post 3 top part and the basic Narsil operations with the menu options