Hello from the Netherlands

Welcome SpAwN, and also Borri and iwandutchy. Wow, the last two of you are almost my neighbours! I feel the birth of a Dutch chapter coming. Let’s buy some more BLF GT’s, and we all will be outlawed.

Sorry friend, but this can’t be done :smiley: Specially after seeing those shelfs :open_mouth: Amazing!!!
I guess you’ll have to have another one for you future flashlight collection :smiling_imp: Eheheh!

Welcome and be happy here :+1:

Welcome to BLF SpAwN! Most impressive work room. Building lighted tailcaps is a fun challenge. I’m sure you’ve seen this link pertaining to lighted tailcaps, but just in case: D.I.Y. Illuminated tailcap.

Thanks for warm welcome again guys, I think I will spend a lot more time here than I suppose to :slight_smile:

I was thinking about the Vaping batteries I got, those are 40A discharge with lesser mAh since the flashlights I ordered doesn’t need anything near 10A, I decided to get couple LG MJ1 10A 3500mAh, I hope these will work okay and keep the charge long time.

Thanks for the link NeutralFan, believe me I read all 57 pages couple days ago :smiley: I even ordered some PCB’s from Oshpark, PD put a lot effort in those PCB layouts I am sure it will be good. I am not much of a SMD solder guy, but I have couple decent soldering stations (even one Proxxon, go figure :stuck_out_tongue: ) and a hot air rework station. But my eyes and hands are not that good as it used to be, but I am sure it will come around.

Here Proxxon soldering station for techies among us, it is pretty rare:

Thanks for signing up, SpAwN!

Welcome to BLF.

Also solder paste is magic. Or at least as close to magic as I’ve seen.

Great, I have enough of those :wink:

Just sign up for The FW3A a TLF BLF special, also eyeballing at the BLF Q8 if the price drops I might get one and it is not even useful for me… but it looks awesome :sunglasses:
Like I said before “Someone needs stop me!”

Banggood had the Q8 on sale 2 weeks ago (already the 2nd time since its introduction) for 42€

If you register at M4DM4X you can get a discount code if its not on sale.

Thanks Yokiamy, €42 sounds really nice, I am subscribed for price drops on Banggood, the thing is I want to wait and get BLF A6 delivered, I had slightly bad experience with Banggood couple years ago, with my first order ever there. I order mostly from Aliexpress (1100+ orders in last couple years), Aliexpress dispute system works good.

Welkom. For a newcomer you seem to have made impressively wise choices; most of us had to buy a good deal of cheap stuff before we became educated enough to choose the lights you have ordered. If you can accept the significantly reduced run-time, try the BLF A6 with an 18350 for greater pocket-ability, one of my favorites.

Hi, Thanks for your kind words, if I didn’t found this forum with this much knowledge I wouldn’t know what to buy. For the pocket-ability I ordered a Utorch UT01. The BLF A6 will be on my belt at work.

Thanks to Yokiamy’s advice I also ordered a BLF Q8 with nice discount code from M4DM4X’s blog, I can’t thank them enough!

So… in last 14 days I ordered,
BLF A6
Convoy C8 Clear
Utorch UT01
BLF Q8
and sign up for The FW3A a TLF BLF

I want a Convoy S2+ with XML HI when I see one with right price.

Now I am going to try to wait and not buy anything till these flashlights arrive (at least I hope to do so)

Good choice!

Before you know it, you become a tint snob and end up with 7 S2+ es in different tints (like me :stuck_out_tongue: )

Not to mention that they come in different anodized colors as well, still don’t have the tan :person_facepalming:

@Yokiamy, you know I already ordered 2x tan S2+ XPL HI but looking in to a Astrolux S1 18350 in red with 18650 tube for my wife now.

Cheapest Astrolux S1 18350 I could find is at Banggood with an 18650 tube it is even cheaper than a complete package here. and you cant even choose body color, or am I doing something wrong?

I am not even going to ask “Some stop me please” now, I am deep in to this :person_facepalming: already ordered 6 flashlights even before I get one in my hands…
Oh and, I am also looking for an ON THE ROAD M3 for a right price :weary:

Spawn, it looks like you are completely right, (prices vary from time to time at BG and GB)

Well then I will wait till a coupon with good price comes around.

First flashlight arrived today, the Utorch UT01 :smiley: GB beat BG with shipment speed, the BLF A6 was my first ordered flashlight at BG and I ordered the Utorch 6 days later at GB. But it was free shipment vs registered shipment, I think that does matter.

Tomorrow, I will receive the BLF Q8 if it al goes okay, I can’t test it fully because I have around 12 18650 batteries but non of these are equal anymore (used separately) So I have to wait till I get the 30Q button tops.
I can test it shortly by measuring the batteries internal resistance and find 4 +/- equal batteries. We will see.

Played little bit with UT01 and it is really nice light, I don’t have 14500 batteries yet, I ordered some 50mm length ones.
With AA I could go in all modes and programming mode, switch works okay so no issues there. I am glad I ordered another one 2 days ago :smiley:

Nice work spawn, you know the Q8 will even run on one cell?
Its better to use more cells to protect the springs, they might sag/degrade under thát much current per spring

Yes I knew that indeed, watched to much reviews about it :smiley: on the other hand I have only flat tops so I might have to wait till the batteries arrives, don’t want to do solder blob mods on my batteries since they work good for the purpose I need them.

The post.nl has changed the delivery to Friday so one more day to wait.

Nice, another Dutchman, welkom!

Your route to here sounds familiar with the possible exception that you actually need your flashlights. Most of us here don’t :wink: