They were flat top, and I have solder-boobed them myself. I was aware of this potential problem, but thanks for the tip!
OK. great! Just checking & your welcome. :+1:
There is even a special flashlight app for that: search for ‘ceilingbounce’. It makes use of the same phone sensors as the various luxmeter apps so in accuracy it is not anything special but it has all sorts of nice features that makes flashlight measurements more convenient.
edit: de ceilingbounce app is not in the app store, a link is here: Introducing Ceilingbounce - flashlight testing and runtime graphs for Android
Great idea! I have went as far as installing a couple lux meter apps, but I didn’t find a suitable piece of semi-transparent material to cover the sensor to prevent it from saturating. Totally didn’t think of bouncing the light off the ceiling.
A troll recently had his account and all of his posts deleted.
That might be the problem here. 
I have two of them, and on one of them the green light on the button started to flicker and eventually stopped working after the first week or so. Not a big deal, still works great, and I love the Q8!
Lol sb, I thought you were replying to raccoon city. I thought, at first, you were talking about having two trolls. I really need to switch to decaffeinated coffee.
I did to Joey Adams, until I got to “button”…… :person_facepalming: … 
I have a question - how does stepdown act when in ramping: for example what does it do when it’s set to about half output and set to 5 miutes stepdown? what about thermal stepdown? I know it steps down on turbo according to settings, but what happens at lower levels? Thank you!
So the new way to reduce the post count to reduce the srver work load is to delete members accounts? 
I best start behaving. There was an issue with switch lights earlier on that from memory were fixed by reflowing the items on the switch board itself.
At half-output, I don’t think it will step-down at all. If more than that, it will step down to about 50% output. For thermal stepdown, I don’t think it would do anything on lower levels because it won’t get hot enough. Though, I suppose if you calibrate it for thermal step-down at a very low temperature, it might drop down when it doesn’t really have to.
I just use the default 3-minute step-down, which seems about right for fully-charged batteries. When the batteries get to a lower voltage, it never really heats up much at all, since output is a lot less. So, maybe thermal would be a better way to go.
Yep. It’s SB’s world and we’re just living in it. 
Seriously though, SB gives everyone a lot of rope. It’s very few people that are so disruptive and disrespectful that they actually hang themselves. Even then they sometimes are allowed to stick around. So if SB actually has to kick somebody out, you know they messed up big time.
That was just a temporary fix that eventually failed. There’s a problem with the switch pcb and the through holes (vias). The only sure way to fix it is to swap to a different switch pcb.
Very true. We are all given the benefit of the doubt here, by a large margin. Most of us respect that, or learn to. Only a few don’t, and then they go bye-bye. It keeps this forum a great place to learn, meet internet friends, kill time, and of course, spend some money.
Yep… that last one you mentioned, “spend some money”; ’can be’ a killer. :person_facepalming:
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Just got the Q8 and reading through the threads. Additional cells provide longer run-time?
Yes. The batteries are in parallel so you add up the mah (milliamp hours). It’s the number of hours it can put out 1 milliamp. So one 3,000 mah battery (like Samsung 30Q) can put out one milliamp for 3,000 hours. 2 of those batteries gives you 6,000 hours. 3 gives 9,000 hours and 4 gives 12,000 hours.
@ Joey Adams……. You mentioned before you have two Q8’s… 1 stock & 1 modded by TomE. How much difference can you see in an actual side by side comparison of the two lights???
I am just assuming you have done this… if you haven’t please do if you don’t mind.
Thank you in advance!! :+1:
I know I would have. 
/\\\ … Me too!! 
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