I wouldn’t mind swapping colours, blue seems good. I don’t mind soldering in new leds and a second resistor on the switchboard if I have a spare, but I won’t try it on my only one in case I damage it, I don’t have the best soldering equipment or skills.
$40 may not be a lot to people earning $, but in South African currency it is significant (at least to me), this is likely to be the most I will ever spend on a light, unless a really good deal comes up on the latest L6, maybe next year.
Can I please have a list of all the things that are great about the Q8 too, that can go with the list of issues? To balance things out.
Winspiration, very probably your Q8 just works fine, no fixes are needed and it will keep working on your camping trip. A small minority of people received a Q8 with the switch-indicator-led failing but that would not prevent the light from using it on vacation.
All Q8 lights work out of the box stock 100, 0 failure rate
There in the OP, you see the way too long list of people having issue with indicator led not working.
All issues with indicator led showed themselves within a day AND do not affect the light out of the front of the Q8 or jeopardise the safety.
2.6% of first 500 lights affected, but counting, and hoping this will not rise.
Then you can see in the OP there are some issues with screws that only matter to those wanting to bump output, mod it, all except for 2 screws were relatively easy to unscrew. 2 different screws of the 3500 screws (0.57‰ o screws)
4‰ of lights affected
There are a few things worth checking, like the inside of the tube and the top of the tube, if not smooth sandpaper touches it up easy.
So when your Q8 arrives there is no indication it cannot be used on a camping trip
The switch light has begun to dim on the left side, but is still functioning for now:
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The dimming LED in the switch got me curious and I removed the rubber button. I found even more damage than the gouges on the exterior of the switch housing. The threads are all cut through and I am hoping this does not compromise the water resistance, especially being on the switch. I hate to use DC 111 to block any water since it might make the area greasy, but I may have to just to be safe. Looking more closely, the seal looks to be against the switch’s mount so maybe the grease is not necessary.
I’ll disable my switch led before I light them up and tell myself that my Q8 is very special while others have lighted switch mine have a glow in the dark rubber switch cover…… :smiling_imp:
I will accept my “special” light & STFU…… :smiling_imp:
Edit : mine shipped today on the way too
Edit again : just a joke for those with switch problem please don’t misunderstood….sorry
(it needs only some cheap hardware and free software, and the Q8 makes it particularly easy since the driver comes out far enough to access the right parts without soldering)
I thought reports of issues were being solicited to help the Q8 crew. My mistake as this seems to be taken as “complaining”. Hope everything goes well with the lights you receive….sorry
Orange peel, if your light has problems (well, it won’t have problemS as there is just one problem known) you should tell the team either here or via pm. They will have their own list of issues (there is one in the op).
There is no need for ‘us’ to make a list in the forum adding more and more posts to the thread, thus making it harder to find relevant information.
Asking for a list of issues sounded maybe a little rude and didn’t show good intentions.
Edit: I now know you, orange peel, did not ask for the list. I got the posts confused. Sorry
Don’t get me wrong. I will still report issues here to inform everyone (I don’t consider that as complaining) and hopefully able to resolve them. In case it can’t be resolve I’ll just disable the switch (cos i’m not FL modder) to me the main led is the most important component of a good FL even my X80 switch is not lighted ones…haha
… and a couple days ago I found a way to make moon mode run even longer — like 3X to 4X as long.
Basically, underclocking the CPU and using an idle state while at the lowest modes. It doesn’t matter at most brightness levels, but on moon and a few levels above it, it really makes a huge difference.