I had no idea I was going to get one from the second batch. I didn’t want to take any chances I’d get one from the flawed first batch. I’m sure you understand.
My Q8 came in while I was out of town. Been playing around with it, running reclaimed Sony 18650s. Even with these cheap cells, output is very impressive. Very happy with this purchase. Thanks Q8 team!!
A user on r/flashlight sent me this - before I do any mods to my Q8, are there risks I need to be aware of? I’m searching for some threads about how to do the bypass mod you mentioned.
Interesting… still waiting for my button-top 30Qs (only got flat-tops except for a couple of protected panny-Bs), wanted to check out the light and be amazed, so just for s&g, I tried some flat-top VTC6es, and it worked!
Might not be making as solid contact as would be Strongly Preferred, but it did work.
Would be ironic if I’d polish up the contact-ring and it’d no longer work, that it was the rough spots that were making contact.
I found they work also, butt you might want to tap the bottom on the heel of your hand to see how easily the stock springs compress and lose contact, shutting off the light.
I wouldn’t use ’em in practice, if only because contact would be spotty at best, only making contact through raised rough patches on the ring, and/or compressing the shrink-tubing ’til the ring hits metal.
I just did it to play with it, test it, check out the ramping, etc. Damn it’s a bright light…
Actually, I found no signs of compression on the shrink-wrap and ran them for a good while and all 4 were basically 3.4xV showing good contact. I wouldn’t hesitate to use them as long as you are aware of the bump-in-the-night thing.
BangGood is carrying the light. Current price is around $50 US.
Thorfire has posted the Q8 on their Amazon US store with a promo code that got mailed to me to bring the price down to $50 as well. I don’t want to to spoil that code so I wont post it, check with M4DM4X on his deal thread and web site for codes. If you can’t find it elsewhere, PM me.