TK WOW you outperformed yourself again amazing code really refined i hope you make more blinkies as you stated some posts ago.
dale thanks for your always open ear and neutral wise tips and voice
and thanks to the rest i dont know who all made it so good
i got my sets today complete
i must say what a piece the ss is made for eternity i think even driver and LED will improve this light is so easy to upgrade this host will last generations.
the copper is a cute little thingy too
how about this ss hosts with same knurling and shape made as A6 and A5 in ss cu Brass and Al
today i got the AL and yesterday the SS if the wood box wood be protected as the all carton box it would look like new i hope this person at manker who did this crime get a training.
but i wonder because manker always pack everything so well i never had an issue and they wrap they cheap cardboard box of the al so well and the wood box not at all its a pity because as if you give this someone as present it doent make you look good it looks liek you hand over some used staff.
Drug companies (shoe companies, whatever) are businesses, for profit. They pay employees, stockholders, etc, and are in business for profit. If the drug company brain trust worked really hard to make a great new drug, just so everyone could have that great new drug, and decided they didn’t want to profit from it at all, when they were the only ones really entitled to profit from it, but didn’t want to, would it be right for someone with no intellectual or physical investment to buy that drug, resell it and profit from it? Isn’t there a difference? It is not a business. It is my feeling on the matter. I’m not telling anyone what to do, just stating my opinion, so I don’t think the bible quotes are all that appropriate. I definitely don’t care what anyone does in their bedroom. There are some bad drivers out there though.
My SS/CU Combo is stated as "The item is pre-advised" since 2016-01-27 (!!) 05:52;
hopefully they repacked the box for safer shipping without dancing flashlights inside!!
Not for nothing, if I post: “‘Yabba dabba do,’ Fred Flintstone said that,” I’m quoting Fred Flintstone. OTOH if I post: “Consider Shakespeare’s quip in The Merchant of Venice, 1.3.96,” I’m citing a line from a work of William Shakespeare. Either way, I am still trolling a troll who littered the thread with my own litter as an obvious demonstration, but that’s just my opinion. Drive safe, folks!
But it’s not a company. It’s a community. People on BLF have been gradually developing hosts and drivers and firmware and tribal knowledge for years, figuring out better and better ways to move photons, and it’d be rude for one small group to take credit for all that. There are so many contributors that I can’t even remember who they all are.
So the prices are set to have as little margin as possible. Suggestions are solicited and often implemented. The code and circuit designs are open. Participation is encouraged. Nothing is glued shut.
This isn’t about companies and customers. It’s a community. So don’t be just a customer, be a maker — do your own thing and share it.
Several people is talking about how bad there is if somebody sells their light with profit. But just take a look at the list. Some on the list has up to 9 sets, and do you really think they are keeping 9 sets for them self? What would one person need 9 sets for?
So of course, they are buying them to sell them after the GB, maybe in a store, maybe online, but they are going to sell them.
That’s life, somebody will always try to make a buck or two out of limit sets etc.
Will the led in the tailcap keep draining the battery even if the light itself has shut off due to low voltage? Just drained a 14500 and when I clicked the button, the led at the button switched on.
Yes, the tailcap led doesn’t run through the mcu like the main emitter does, so there’s no low voltage protection for the tailcap led (except its own Vf I suppose, but that probably won’t do much to help you). It would take months for the tailcap led by itself to drain a battery to dangerous levels, but an already depleted cell shouldn’t be left in these lights.
Actually, because blue leds are chosen for the lighted tailcap, you need well over 2V to get them lighted at all (and thus draw current). I do not know at which exact voltage, but my guess is that with the battery at around 2.5V the leds will not light anymore and further battery drains stops. Perhaps someone can check?, I do not have the lights in yet.
Have the lights here now. The damages are only slightly visible. The photos looked much worse than it looks in real life. There was much black “dirt” from the inside of the box on the lights. Could clean most of it easily. The X6 is in perfect condition. The X5 has some minor scratches on the bezel. I can live with that.
I think most of the photos we’ve seen of damage would be the same story in real life. Mine isn’t perfect either if I really look for it, but its not a problem for me because the marks are so minor. Mine had black “dirt” too, which comes from the foam in the box being eroded by the lights shifting and bouncing around during shipping. So do most of the tiny marks, I bet. I’m sure the marks on my X5 tailcap came from striking the knurling on the X6 during shipping. Both of those issues, the eroded foam and the minor marks, could be solved by better packaging. The first reports of damage were quickly blamed on Manker, and some of the marks could be from their handling during production, but I’d bet that easily 90% of the marks on my lights came from shipping. We could probably test that theory. I wonder how many of the unboxed sets, SN between 251-400, have the same marked up X5 tailcaps some of the rest of us are reporting?
I hope the team leaders don’t take this post as a complaint. It isn’t meant that way and anybody can read back through my comments of the past few days and see me defending these lights and this team over and over. So I’m not trying to stir something up, but I do think that Banggood could learn a bit about properly protecting and handling items like this and I hope we can help them do it. For instance, they’ve obviously got tons of that white foam sheeting there they use for wrapping boxes. Just a thought, but one piece inside the box could have probably saved a lot of minor issues. This set of lights is awesome and I’ve got no real complaints, but maybe the next lights they sell me can be even more awesome.
I removed the coating pretty easily with metal polish. Now the copper in both lights looks more like that “penny” orange, and is pretty reflective. If people thought they were shiny now, just wait till you give them a nice polish. They look fantastic. The polish I used claimed that it left an “anti-tarnish” coating, so I’ll see how long it takes for the copper to oxidize. I’m skeptical of that claim though.
emarkd, theories proven are no longer theories, is this not correct? A bump is a bump, the X5 loose in the box can indeed bump the X6, but to get a deep knurling impression takes some pressure. If you were to try and duplicate the deep knurling diamond that is embedded in a lot of the cu components, you’d see it takes a fairly good blow to get it set that deep. Sure, in shipment sometimes they really throw things around, I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, but it’d be more random.
I have samples, and I have production units. I have these marks in virtually all my copper parts. Even on the end of the bezel, where it could not possibly have contacted the X6 while in the box.
the lights are awesome and i am very happy with them. I was very surprised of its weight.
But i am german and i like precision There are some little things that could have been made better at the machines. Take a look into the battery tube for example and perhaps you can see it is bored off center. I already heard that from A6 owners. But that is nothing that could reduce my love for both lights.
