+1. Love mine too. After a few months of ownership, I’d say it’s my favorite overall flashlight. It’s very bright, has the best UI, tint, and battery life. My hat’s off to all involved with its design.
I was responding to teach's post. I misread his posts to be a slight at Meld. Whether I misread or not, my post was not appropriate. I apologize teacher.
Unfortunately this fix only lasted about 48 hours before the LEDs both went back out. I fiddled around with the soldering iron again and they lit up, but then again died after a couple days.
Any recourse here for repair? I don’t think it’s the LEDs that are bad, as probing the contacts with a multimeter set to continuity mode lights them up bright as day.
Yeah, after posting I started looking back through the pages and saw that people contacted The Miller, who helped them get replacement assemblies. The Miller seems to have been offline for over a month though, so I see joechina stepped up to offer help. I sent them a PM and will follow up with an email to chendongling@banggood.com if I don’t hear a response. Will keep BLF updated!
Glad to see this thread isn’t going away. The video about meld software was amazing. Not that I understand it. I don’t understand what Narsil is either. That mini Q8 that Everett had is really cool. Who makes that? I can’t follow the GT thread. Too long. I had to be away a few days because of the superbowl and I couldn’t follow any BLF threads.
Thanks SayPat for mentioning the MELD I had completely forgotten, I had read a brief comment some time ago, 2014/15 I think, so went and found his blog following your UTube link, so just wanted to say thank you,
Narsil is basically a ramping software for lights with e-switches. It also has a second user interface built in for discrete individual brightness levels.
That light in the video is the old Blackshadow Rook. It uses 3 AA or 3 14500 cells. I don’t think it’s sold anymore.
Most likely this question has been asked somewhere in this thread, but as there are 560+ pages, it’s a bit difficult to find the answer.
My question is: Got another BLF Q8, and putting it thru the usual tests to check if it has any issues. I quickly did the voltage check, temperature check and found a problem: the temperature is grossly incorrect (it reports about 15-25 degrees higher than my first BLF Q8).
For instance, a digital thermometer reads 30 deg Celsius right now (room temperature). Both BLF Q8s are rested for at least 10 minutes and cooled down from last turn on. Checked my first BLF Q8, the temperature check blinkout reads 25 deg Celsius (still OK). The second BLF Q8’s temperature check blinkout reads 50 deg Celsius (and the flashlight is not even warm to the touch).
I’m afraid with the grossly incorrect high temperature readout, it may step down much more quickly since it thinks it has a high temperature when being used — is that how it works? Or is the wrong temperature readout mean something else?