Totally understandable. I don’t use my soda can lights much. They come in really handy sometimes as extra lighting for photography and video, and they’re nice as lanterns or candles due to the wide stable base and long runtime, but I don’t use them much for regular flashlight purposes.
However, that said, I use my Q8 quite a lot as a candle.
Same here, they even only leave the house twice per year, for showing off and candle use, too big and an unneccessary amount of light. On holidays and weekends away atm I take my LuxeonV-D4 and SP33 for runtimes, so that is 10 times a year, my E2L shorty is carried and used every day.
Three new pics for the OP, I asked for one extra beamshot together with the BLF Q8, pending…
New info:
*The leds are XP-L Hi output bin V3, colour bin 1C or 1D, their order was too small to ask for one specific colour bin. (1D is right on the BBL, 1C above it)
*there is no current limit on the group buy, if it exceeds the produced numbers, they make more.
*no sales via Amazon Italia or Australia atm, Barry says sorry.
*it should be on Amazon within 10 days from now
Yep, I think that would be nice too. But it is often not so, my X1R from the gb that is on the way is not tested, and I have to await how the Convoy T2 will perform (not from gb, but also underway). Etc. What we will have to go from is that this light is hardly different from a very well tested light and that all changes from that lighy should be quite predictable (but you won’t know for sure).
That said, Barry promised to send me a Sofirn Q8 for the effort, maybe it will be here sooner than most will buy their lights and then I can do some testing.
(which also endangers my neutrality in respect to Sofirn )
The Sofirn rep. is not right, the individual lights may vary but the XP-L Hi’s V3 bin should on average produce 12.5% less light than the XP-L HD’s V6 bin. Assuming that a BLF Q8 on average produces 5000 lumen (which is about correct) and if we assume the same voltage bin for the HD and Hi leds (which is unknown btw), the output is to be expected on average 4400 lumen. Even if you are very lucky with your leds all 4 being on the lowest end of the voltage bin and the highest end of the output bin, 5000 lumen is out of reach for a stock Sofirn Q8. You need spring-bypassing and such for that.