I'm finding good results with Samsung 35E's, but with DIY solder tops added.
One eBay source sold out of them already - I bought a set of 8 for $40.49 from this eBay store, all seemed good, but he's all sold out now. Just order another set of 8 from eBay here for the same price, just shipped, not received yet, so can't vouch for this source yet.
Again, important to understand they need soldered or added tops of some sort, but still $40 shipped for 8 of these cells is a pretty good deal.
Are those pictures showing how to rotate the switch LED position?
Or — I’d assume — you need to get at the circuit board underneath the plastic cover to rotate the LEDs?
For me the brightness asymmetry is in the “if you fiddle with it long enough you’re going to break it” category
(thanks, Mom, for that good lifetime advice)
Here is hypothetical question. For the 4 or 5 out of 500 with indicator issues: would you be interested in returning your q8 to thorfire if return shipping was 100 percent free? Just curious to see what the actual impact of this issue
So on the 7th I ordered 4x 5m led strip rolls from BangGood shipped via "Standard Free Shipping". Not long later, within the hour at most, I ordered the 3 Q8's with their "Priority Air Mail". They all shipped on the 8th and the Q8's were pre-order numbers 1xx. The led rolls turned up yesterday and there's still no sign of the Q8's.
Now, this isn't a complaint, just an observation I find amusing that free, slow shipping arrived before priority air shipping. To make the wait even more unbearable fun, we've had other multiple deliveries and the family are starting to tease with "Ooooh, is this your torches? Nope, it's my ____" whenever a parcel arrives. Rotten lot they are.
I left the switch LED on overnight, and had no issues. It’s one awesome light!
I will say that the Narsil firmware is feature rich, yet a little difficult to navigate. The ramping is INCREDIBLE! Love it. But navigating to and from modes, or the configuration menu is still beyond me at this point. I watched some youtube videos on the firmware and I’m still learning.
Overall, this light is a home run! I haven’t placed the order for my second one yet… I think I am going to wait until we find out when production will start back up.
I’ve been watching my tracking and found that one of my two that were ordered a few minutes apart was to be delivered today, and the second Thursday. Mailman came and went, rechecked tracking and now both to be delivered Thursday. AUUUUG. So I took a chance, got the tracking number and went to the post office. I am now playing with my Q8!
ANNND almost immediately managed to put it in discreet mode rather than ramping. And now I can’t figure out how to factory reset. I think I’ve managed to set the moon mode so low the LED’s don’t come on also. Can we get a Factory Reset from discreet mode combo posted please?
Finish is great. Indicator seems to be fine. Feels solid and dense. Really love the light, still getting used to the UI.
read the manual, it is very simple
in ramping? ramp up, then reverse ramp and keep pressing to enter config (you can do it when ramping up, but the Q8 is kind of bright )
in modes, hold button for 2.5sec
you are in config and first thing you can change is ramping or modes (so it is logical one gets into config playing first time, holding switch in default ramp will start the config cycle and 1 click means modes is chosen )
if you click 1 time, you disable ramping, meaning selecting modes. If you click 2 times here you are in ramping
In post 2 it is written pretty clear, I mean if I can do it, so can anybody who can read English
I feel like discrete mode is a better description than modes mode - but I have been accused of pedantry on occasion. (But perhaps NOT a great speller!)
Thank you for the help - it would appear that I have now managed to reset back to Ramping mode.
I also discovered that the Moon mode that I had managed to enable DID turn on the LED’s - they gave off LESS light than the switch LED did. I only noticed it when sitting in a completely dark room.
It's somewhere below 0.1 lumens - pretty amaz'n. Glad ThorFire got the "good" 7135's in volume. They are getting hard for us to find, so they do have some good sourcing for sure.
Mailman just dropped off my Q8. Very first impression, its much smaller that I thought. I am just getting into this hobby and don’t have experience with the soda can form factor, I just assumed in my head it would be much thicker and chunkier feeling. This light is pretty much perfect in my hands.
I really really really like this light!
In the interest of accumulating data… no flicker issue with the switch indicator LEDs as of yet, but as another user noted, the left side LED is noticeably brighter than the right side LED in the switch.
Again, many thanks to all the guys and girls who did the heavy lifting around here to make this possible. I’ll be putting in my second order shortly.