I got one of mine today. Despite serious oddities from USPS (they really need a helping hand). How can they be a billion dollar operation that can’t get tracking right? FedEx was good.
Brief look at the Q8.
No sharp places. No burrs, sharp edges.
Resistance of screwing on an off of the parts seems reasonable. A bit of drag, but not remarkable. Might be useful to put some appropriate grease on the interfaces. But it does not seem useful.
No visible defects on the outside or inside.
Screws seem fine. I did not go further than unscrewing parts accessible to someone with hands.
I put Stabilant on all the surfaces that will conduct current. It is sort of a lubricant, but the major property is enhanced conductance and corrosion prevention in mating surfaces.
I put a in a set of Samsung ICR 18650-26F 2600 MaH for testing. Charge state unknown, but should be reasonable. Trying to get info on how much current is available internally for the fan in a BT-C3100 charger so I can recharge and evaluate cells. I have a serious fan to cool the whole unit, but I need to avoid killing the internal control device.
Using that comma instead of a period always throws me off…I looked at that and thought it was $261,500! Was about ready to ask Banggood if I could join their affiliate program.
Fedex let mine sit in my city for 5 days before handing it to the post office. I wish they just let the USPS have it right after customs. I would have had it last week.
Dragons breath is just fanciful, I’d ignore that and stick to what works.
Brightness has nothing to do with coding, that’s a hardware thing, so ignore that.
For the people that don’t know how to turn it on or off, that is a decision that can be taken out of their hands. Then no more confusion.
I think 99% people don’t need to know when they are on fet or 7135. It does seem kinda neat. Maybe the switch can be on all the time and blink off once or twice to indicate this. I don’t know.
So you end up with:
- Don’t want it at all
- Want it on all the time, w/blinks or not? Not sure…
I find it extremely useful on my Narsil lights to just have a lighted switch to tell me if power is connected or shut off. I can’t even see the switch when my finger is on top of it, so blinks would not be seen anyway.
I think if the brightness were just right, most people would not mind the switch light on all the time. This helps to both find the light as well as the power switch in the dark.
For those few who want the light off all the time, they can twist the battery tube. And when the light is being used and the switch is lit up, they can put their finger on the button to block or reduce the light.
You are not alone, the tracking information for mine is very similar, shipped 9/29 arrived Los Angeles , cleared customs now nothing
I imagine there are quite a few of our lights in the same lot. Use the tracking information from Banggod, mine linked me to FedEx , from the FedEx site it says information sent or something like that, but there is another number that FedEx shows the reference number, it begins with “YT” then I use both numbers (the one from Banggood and the “YT” ) in 17Track.net.
My life is now all about tracking a flashlight, :person_facepalming:
One advantage to having a 30 digit tracking code is that, being completely useless, it really frees you up to do other stuff bedsides following the light around.
JasonWW - I read that as a lot of judgments and assumptions. I'm about in total disagreement with almost every point you are making. Your entitled to your opinions but don't portray those opinions as facts, or belonging to most people.
You seem to by harping on the switch LED's more than anyone else, and across a few threads. I've spent 100's of hours in development and support in firmware for these projects, and getting slapped around for doing it is not appreciated.
Well I for one like that the switch LEDs tell me if I am running on the FET or the 7135, while I have no real use for em when the light is turned off. It’s a really nice feature and extremely well implemented. Easy enough to turn it off if it annoyes me. Very well done Tom E.
