TomE would you please check your PMs. It’s been over 11 weeks since your last response indicating you were finished modifying my q8. Thanks in advance.
My first thought was no, it couldn’t have, but I’ll check anyway.
The result? Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!
And I’m a dummy.
Thanks.
Excellent!! 
… :+1:
Wonder why I thought to suggest that??? 
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Yep…. your not alone. 
It happened to you too, huh? Well, thanks for the suggestion. I guess I’ll give the manual another read, because sometimes it’s hard to get the click sequences and timing just right. I might even look up how to do a factory default reset, and start again.
Oh yeah… more than once too. :person_facepalming: … In fact one of mine even came with it disabled from the factory.
Here is the most simple Factory Reset I have found……
Restore to Factory Settings
A feature (undocumented in the user manual), to restore all configuration settings to factory default. (The state as Q8 originally shipped.)
To access this feature, while displaying the firmware number ; press & hold the switch until the light blinks quickly. (This acknowledges ‘Factory Reset’)
Cool, thanks teacher.
Your welcome my friend.
Still no issues with my Q8 after a few months of ownership. That being said, I’m as happy as a pig in #2…. lol
THAT…… is pretty darn happy!! .
Teach, there’s nothing happier!
Exactly my friend!!! :+1:
No complaints about the Q8 here either. I haven’t even had to charge the batteries yet!
With one of Zozz’s diffusers donated by Dale, it has spent quite a few hours lately doing candle duty:
I just charged mine for the first time too . They were at 3.85v and the light wasn’t hurting for a charge but I charged them because …
” February is official charge up all your batteries month ”
I broke out multiple chargers and opened up all the beefy lights and all the multiple battery lights .Tomorrow I’ll open up a bunch of single battery lights…
anyway the first thought i had when opening up the Q8 was …Wow nice job on the threads …Another thing I have to compliment the creators of the blf q8 on is the TINT … I consider myself very picky and have always …always been unhappy with tints on past BLF lights . This is just more proof that decent tints can be found for these projects if someone actually cares . Thanks again … what a nice light
I can’t say enough nice things about the amazing User interfaces that members here have produced .
I’m old enough to remember All the torture we endured with hi/ho/sos/strobe next mode mem.
for the newb who wants to argue the need for sosstrobe etc can we have a strobe only mode which makes full use of high discharge batteries and one click/just kills them where they stand ./one less knucklehead on BLF
I agree Boaz, over are the days of flashlights with obvious design flaws, terrible PWM and bad user interfaces, thanks to what happened on BLF over the last years, for the same budget we can have extremely nice lights. I just finished a triple C8 build with a driver (made by Lexel, but MountainElectr. makes similar drivers) that has the same user interface as the Q8 (NarsilM, one version further down the road) and I’m delighted to have that user-friendliness in a smaller light as well I do not think I can go back to the old days of bad mode spacing, PWM and strobe/SOS in the main sequence, anu light that has that will be re-build or simply not bought in the first place.
Agreed too, and when you think of it, it wasn’t that long ago.
Do you know the newer cheat sheet?
It has now usefull notes based on user questions.
Go to http://bit.ly/narsil-cs
and get the v1.0 version for the Q8
NarsilM CS v10 Q8 (some newest date)
BLF Thread Cheat Sheet New BLF GT Narsil M Cheat Sheet for v1.2 NEW VERSION
Will do, thanks.
Ah i would have LOVED if my Q8 came with a candle light mode! thats so neat!
im not a flasher (gulp) so i wouldnt even know where to begin. I know what i would do if i was tho: i would put colored cups on it as diffusers and….well……look at it? Good enough excuse for me!
That’s the spirit. It’s good to have ambitions in life.
(it’s nice in the bath, and next to the bed, or anywhere a candle would add to the ambience)
Is there any link to order the kit?
I have some complaints from a friend I bought the flashlight, but I can not communicate with him often, and prefer to have a spare set.