Any other can confirm that recent one can use Lii 50A ? If so I will pull the trigger.
Jump on green one if you want
it. Those will go first. Lots of guys wanting that color.
Lii 50A does not fit in original design (Oct '17). Micmania #123 did mention that current batch is able to fit wider 26650.
My green M8 arrived today, same as micmania, I hate cool white!
Has anyone reflashed these with narsil?
Edit to add, not sure if this has been mentioned, mine is USB-C.
hmm … 
mine has USB-C too … and of course I have to add that there was a light-blue sleeved USB-C cable in the box. and wtf … a spare lens was found :disappointed:
Yup, strange!
Just found out today that press and hold from off turns the light on in last mode memorised.
If it’s possible to reflash the driver, this will be the first I try. LED swap should be pretty straight forward.
Can any who owns Green Version give feedback on CW VS NW ? I am a CW guy due to brighter tint. But interested if NW is not yellowish or egg colored. I have the Green coming. Please advise.
CW vs NW tint comparison for M8 v2. Most likely BG only offer CW right now.
I received my green one a few days ago, and it certainly is not neutral white.
To my naked eye, it looks CW to me.
New M8 V2 comes with type-C port now. Does yours come with battery too?
Thanks freeme. I ordered the Green Version from BG the other day. Glad I got CW. I was considering NW to compare at later time.
Nice, Can not wait to get mine.
Huh? I hope it does come with battery. Do you know if it came with latest batch or Green Version? I ordered mine about 1-2 days ago.
I am not aware of the changes until recently. Have to check with their customer support. Ramping has been replaced by low, medium, high arrangement now.
No battery came with my green one that has USB-C connector, and came with a blue USB-C cable.
Anyone who got M8 would you check how many KCD it throw ?
Mine just shipped out BG. Do you know when these changes were made? I hope mine were from latest batch with updated UI, battery, USB , etc….
My green version arrived today. USB C charge port, blue USB C charge cord, no battery and it is CW with NO stepless ramping. Button is not great. There is a delay between depressing the button and the light activating. There was no instructions. Light wouldn’t work at first until I removed the big black washer around the spring in the head. My black version has USB micro port, no battery, great switch with stepless ramping. The NW on my black version is close to the BLF GT
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I'm working on upgrading my black M8 with a TA NarsilM driver - will keep the stock NW XPL HI in that one. Had to rotary tool/sand down the driver to fit. Just got in a green one, and same as above - definite cooler tint, hold to toggle thru modes, 2X click to turbo. Single click to lo from off. Single clicks are frustratingly slow to respond, least for me. I'd be dead all the time in COD if my gun responded this slow...
The LED in my green one is definitely not a 6500. The UV light does not lie - it shows a fair amount of glow, so I'm guessing about 5700.
Here's what I measured, using my PVC lightbox somewhat calibrated against high end rated flashlight.
- Black M8, stock, on EFEST 4200 @4.16V, lumens: 945 @start, 880 @30 secs, 101 kcd (636 meters) taken at 5 meters
- Green M8, stock, on blue LK 5000 @4.20V, lumens: 1160 @start, 1100 @30 secs, 120 kcd (693 meters) taken at 5 meters
This sort of makes sense now. The 1200 lumens and 800 meter rating is inflated of course, as usual, but the CW version seems to do wayyy better than the NW version in output and throw.
For the black M8 modding, the switch on the black M8 is given me problems - it's not your standard 4 wire wiring for 2 color LED's. Normally: Grnd, switch, red LED, blue LED, but this switch uses 3 wires:
- switch, 1 wire on grnd side of LED's with LED's wired in series (???), and 1 wire than feeds the LED's and also has a 10K resistor to the other side of the switch
I dunno exactly what it's doing, but seems like it's pumping voltage across the LED's in series, where the blue one engages over a certain voltage, and the RED engages under that voltage. Might just punt on supporting the LED's, and jump the resistor to get straight simple access to the switch.
Hhhmmm. Might have to re-think keeping with the stock XPL HI. I got XPL HI V2 5D's in from Hank which are probably a higher bin and better or equal tint.