Manker style. Think they are the first I heard of it used in.
Here, listed as #7 feature: http://www.mankerlight.com/manker-mk35-1420m-thrower-flashlight-2550-lumens-cree-xhp35-hi-led-searchlight/
Only explanation for that is they are deliberately delaying smartpost shipments to push more expensive shipping options.
Good to see good reports!
People found from Spain and Germany to look into Royo light
Mine just landed in LA... I should have it by the end of the week...
Second in, looks good
Needed a little lube.
On my 3rd light seems they ran out of screws as they used 3 screws I have never seen and 1 my 2nd one had
how is it tracked? i think mine was shipped 9/29 to los angeles but i cannot track it by fedex or usps. no delivery date shows up yet.
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:
From 17Track.net:
Origin Country - Tracking Consuming: 681 ms
2017-10-07 08:00
LCJ - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Custom clearance completed
2017-10-07 06:01
LCJ - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Arrived at LOS ANGELES, Custom clearance processing.
2017-10-07 06:00
HONGKONG - HONG KONG, Departed Facility in HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
2017-10-04 15:00
HONGKONG - HONG KONG, Arrived at Sort Facility HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
2017-10-01 02:48
SHENZHEN, Departed Facility in SHENZHEN
2017-10-01 02:48
SHENZHEN, Arrived at Sort Facility SHENZHEN
2017-09-29 23:13
Shipment information received
Yeah. Who knew we would need a whole thread dedicated just to tracking Q8’s?
Is there a technical reason for this being fanciful?
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.
I politely disagree.
Yes we have concluded the designs and such
Tom was already working on Narsil before the Q8 started.
We have been open for input and when decisions were made we have given the grounds for that.
Now come here and say things like “this should have been done different” is pointless and might come across as a little not nice.
Narsil was being worked on till the last moment, now talking here in the Q8 thread about changes to that while it is clear the Q8 Narsil is done and will bktibe changed is what I said the paragraph above but a bit more negative on all those conclusions.
You can A talk in the Narsil topic while having respect for the work that went into it, B accept how it is or C download the code and program it to your liking, it is available Open Source.
i think we should all be happy about this great driver then we still can agree to disagree about the fine tune. and that has probably lot s of possibilities
like a pizza you can make it thin thick crispy soft load with toppings or less is more you can never make anyone happy ……
Are there better instructions on how to program this light? The paper work I got with the light is not clear to me at all. I can’t understand it. Thank you.
Let’s start with some basics. When you say program, do you mean reprogram the firmware? Or do you mean use the current firmware to change the configuration?
Reprogramming the firmware is best left to ToyKeeper and companies posts on flashing code.
Configuring the light depends on what you want to do. Get started by spending some time turning it on and off, ramping up and down and stopping at specific intensities. This will familiarize you with how the light and switch works. Refer to the documentation in the first few posts of this thread and the paperwork that came with it.
Single quick click from off to last used mode - easy to do.
Double click to turbo.
Now try to get the lowest intensity from off - a slightly longer click will get you here.
Click and hold to start ramping up from minimum.
Try locking out the light - four quick clicks. Light blinks four times and goes out, switch light is off. Single clicks of the switch should now have no effect.
Four quick clicks will disable the lockout and let you back in.
What specifically are you trying to do? JasonWW has some good videos on Narsil over on YouTube and posted here in this thread.
Iam not trying to change firmware. I would like to turn thermal protection off in the stock ramping mode. I been holding it for 8 seconds seems to 2 short blinks and one long. Then it does some more blinking that iam not sure what it’s doing. Iam trying to go to setting number three.it would be so much easier if setting three was three blinks. I don’t know what is going on. It seems its overly complicated, the way the instructions are laid out on the paper are more confusing than they need to be.