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

this seller on ebay is selling xg-12 for $16.99 or BO, i offered $12 delivered and it was accepted.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/263163689656

at this time he had 2 left.

For those of you in the USA that do want to check Tracking of you Q8, but DO NOT know how… here is the proper procedure.

This procedure is only valid for USA orders that were shipped Priority Air Mail. The FREE Shipping option for this light.

  • 1. Get the Tracking Number of your order either from your Banggood Account or the Shipped email they will send you.
  • 2. Go here https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/ and enter the Tracking Number from step 1. Click Track. At this point it will probably say LABEL CREATED.
  • 3. Scroll down to SHIPMENT FACTS & get the Reference. This number will most likely begin with YT
  • 4. Then go here ALL-IN-ONE PACKAGE TRACKING | 17TRACK and enter the Reference from step 3. Click Track. Scroll down to see movement.

Once the package actually ships, movement will show in the tracking information on 17Track.
Do not be alarmed if your package sites in one place for 1 to 3 or 4 days, this just happens sometimes. It is just the way it is. Nothing to worry about.
DO NOT worry about what it says on the FEDEX Tracking. It will not show there until Fed Ex actually has the package, if then even.

17Track has been very reliable for these packages sent to the USA… all of mine have been 100%. More accurate then FedEx tracking by far.

While writing this I checked my last 2 Pre-Orders…. both above #1680… AND much to my surprise & shock they both actually show movement. It appears they have actually shipped, as in “left the building shipped”…… :open_mouth::wink:
Will know for sure in a couple of day though.

So there it is if anyone likes to see where their package may be……
Enjoy.
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Thanks, I offered $12.50, let’s see what happens…

Those who are nervous because the tracking on 17track does not work can try http://flytexpress.com/Index_En.aspx

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A little low when some 6500ish lumens can be obtained with maybe 30 minutes of cleaning, light sanding, and a few solder joints. :slight_smile:

5000lm stock is quite significant. Heck I’ve only got 1 flashlight that puts out more light than the Q8 and it cost about 7 times as much.

I’m not sure what this means, but they are moving around… maybe…

I did a factory reset and now both D4 and Q8 are fonctionning the same way with a click & hold from OFF.

Before the factory reset, when I was doing a click & hold at the same time on both flashlights, the D4 was turning ON on moonlight almost instantly and after the “moonlight + pause” it was ramping up. The Q8 was turning ON after a longer delay directly to ramp up without “moonlight + pause”.
I probably disabled the moonlight (but there is no way to do it in the manual) so I probably set it to the lowest level by mistake. It seems that the emitters weren’t even emitting light at this lowest moonlight.

I'd be interested if anyone shows so called "conductive" grease actually improving their case connection. Any low viscosity grease should be fine and conductive greases are not standard for such applications in my experience.

Pretty sure the next stop for yours will be Hong Kong. Yours, like mine; do appear to be moving. :+1:

> conductive grease

Hm. Opinions vary.

That guy says nope.

and he has this warning:

Now those attentive to spelling may remark that ‘silicon carbide’ is a well known abrasive, whereas ‘silicone carbide’ would be something else again, if indeed it’s a thing at all.
Google suggests it’s not a thing. But what do they know?

Did you miss my "fast hands" post?

Hhhm, good Q. Let me check....

Edit: Ramp mode pause defaults to 0.368 secs in the Q8. Here's the code:

#define RAMP_MOON_PAUSE 23    // this results in a 0.368 sec delay, paused in moon mode

Same value used in the original D4 firmware. Might be the feel of the switch that's different?

I can confirm a setting of moon mode to 1 disabled the LEDs. Not sure if that's expected - they are using a "good" 7135, I bet was hard to find in qty 2,000. Want to check/confirm with other Narsil lights and Q8 protos...

It happened to me too. And that’s exactly what I point to in bold.

When I selected level 1 for the moonlight mode, exactly the same thing happened to me.

And not only does it change the fact that there is no pause in moonlight mode and that it takes longer to turn on the LEDs. What also happens is that if you release the button before the LEDs turn on, you will have the flashlight turned off with the button light also off. At that time, if you press the button normally, button led will light, another press will turn on the flashlight.

Yep, all normal stuff unfortunately. Sorry, didn't check the protos yet. Think if we would have spotted that and talked bout it, it would have sunk in I shouldn't even allow a level of 1 to be selected in a Q8 .

Ok, checked & verified on 3 protos and 1 production light. All of them light up the LED's, yes, all of them on moon level 1. How are you guys checking it? In room light or are you goin into a dark place? Very obvious what's goin on in the dark on moon mode level 1. It works, it ain't bright...

Flashlights are for the dark. Oh, and is setting 1 useful for anything? No, not really.

Still waiting at “Back Order”

Order no: 1000-1010 (Maybe 1004) . But who cares, I am not in a rush :slight_smile: .

Oh yeah. You guys talked about this before (500 pages back?) but I forgot. I just checked mine this way, and it says that it has departed the facility in Shenzhen! Woo-Hoo! It’s really moving! :partying_face:

Meanwhile, Fed-Ex still says “Shipping label has been created. The status will be updated when shipment begins to travel.” :expressionless:

Ok, I just checked it and it they turn on in setting 1, if that can be called turn on ...

I was doing the tests in a room in the dark, but not completely in the dark, so that it was impossible to observe that there was a slight brightness in the LEDs, in fact, with the room completely dark, you almost have to intuit that they are emitting some kind of light.

It is obvious that level 1 of moonlight is useless. I just selected mode 2, and this yes, this is usable. Although I would like it to be part of the ramp, but the ramp I see that only reaches level 3, if you select 2 or 1, they are off the ramp, in any case, not a big inconvenience.

I’m glad you did! One of my lights actually does light up in Moonlight PWM=1. It is a ridiculously low moonlight. I have no way to measure, but I am fairly sure it is less bright than the switch indicator. Tests in the bathroom at work laboratory indicate that unless you have dark adapted eyes, it is very hard to even tell if the emitters are ON - short of looking directly at them.