To add to the unimportant posts on the thread: āOrigin post is preparing shipment. We have received noticeā¦ā I ordered on the 29th and it says shipped. You think itās coming or even in the country or did I wait til to near the year of the monkey?
The no 176 of 400 arrived here on Finland. Not bad delivery time for normal registered post.
Iāll have to nitpick that my X6 has a embedded fingerprint on the copper heatsink I guess that somebody was quite impatient and touched the part while the lacquer wasnāt completely dry. Iāll have to try my luck stripping the finish and shining it up, or just strip the finish and let it get some patina. Havenāt decided yet.
Otherwise the both lights arrived in pretty good condition. The X5 had couple small nicks and dents but nothing too bad. It also had some white residue on the battery tube but I got it mostly cleaned up.
Thanks for the organisers for delivering these awesome lights. These are absolutely my prettiest and heftiest lights
Hi. Not sure what youāre asking chouster. It is the short 18350 tube that was for the Eagle Eye X6 light. Not sure if it works in both directions, I only tried it one way and it worked.
Heat sink reflowed into the head while reflowing the Noctigon to the heatsink while re-flowing the LEDās to the Noctigon. All re-flowed together simultaneously, done deal.
From experience, weāre talking about two very different lists here.
Troubleshooting threads develop naturally here ā there are a surprising number already:
Someone who has all four kinds of lights and knows more than me, I trust, will do one.
Iād try to be helpful; I donāt have CU/SS lights nor knowledge of how we got to here.
āāāāa thought for NEXT time, this would have to be agreed in advanceāāāāā
(Iād like to see troubleshooting by group purchasers become a firewall for the retailer ā require participating first. Identify problems, identify who sees the problems, work on the problems. Once thereās enough to identify unfixable problems, those get assessed as either ālive with it, itās good enoughā or āretailer should really have caught thatā and handled appropriately. That would cut down on the parasitism by people who just try to get more for their money.)
I was thinking of the other sort of list, nonpublic
Thatās QA/QC āpunch listsā during development and production ā a checklist, that everyone handling samples should update
Whatās deadly is people seeing flaws, thinking āthatās not my responsibilityā and not mentioning them to the rest of the crew.
Stuff slips by that way. Thatās a shared (non-public) place the crew can (must) note: āhey, I noticed X, is it covered?ā
Thatās really two lists.
Some things QA finds can be fixed; others donāt get corrected ā slop in a tool, or unpredictability in a component, or someoneās dropping copper parts into a bin, etc.
Those that QA done early can minimize get fixed.
What QA finds and canāt fix ā there will always be some ā is the beginning of the QC list (also nonpublic, probably people at the retailer)
āLook for X ā there are a few ā and pull them out of the stream.ā
Thatās an industrial-size approach to tracking details that easily get lost. A lot of people here know more about how to do that.
I mostly have experience with checking facts and writing errors of many different kinds, text lists of DNA sequences, for example.
(Get one base pair wrong and I could have been responsible for creating a monster).
Did you know you can define DNA sequences as words to spellcheck? Very handy ā¦
Hardware adds a lot of handling problems. Weāll get better.
What QC isnāt reliably catching should become the (first) public list ā a starting point for the troubleshooting group ā thatās āCharlie Testā and the place to publish the known workarounds that the private list folks already know, and add to them.
Has anyone yet replaced the 202 (2k) resistor in the tailcap to reduce the brightness of the tailcap led?
I am planning on tackling it assuming I can harvest the right resistor from my scrap box.
I only want to do this once so looking for suggestions as to what value to use to get just the faintest luminous type glimmer almost like a GTLS vial.
Double, triple the value???
Thanks DB. Always there with quick useful answers.
You must have the vision of an eagle and the hands of a surgeon!
Itās going to be a challenge to solder just one SMD resistor in place let alone stacking 2 of them!
Iāll look at some of the PCBās I have to see what values I can harvest.
I see I have some 103 (10k) which is close enough to your 11k.
Damn I knew I shouldnāt have had that double espresso come on hands slow down!
Tried to work on my too-narrow X5 clip to see if I could increase the depth to make it more usable, and only succeeded in breaking it right at the bend
At least I got it off the light without leaving any marks. Probably wasnāt going to use it much if at all anyway, but you never know. So, if anyone finds a clip that fits, be sure to let all of us know.
You know, it has a thermometer built in to help with that.
There wasnāt anywhere near enough room for a proper PID algorithm, but it still does okay managing the heat after the heat has had time to reach the MCU. You could also improve this by cramming in some thermal transfer foam between the MCU and the pill, to help it sense heat faster.
Just got mine today. This is my first real flashlight, so for those of you whoāve been jaded by your collection, you might not remember this feeling, but: OMG.
It took a couple minutes to get the hang of moving through all the modes, but itās pretty easy now. Very nicely done, all around.
Dudunphy did an amazing job with the A6 thread, helping countless people with the issues they encountered. I really wasnāt expecting anyone to take on so much work for the sake of others. But this is BLF, after all, and people are pretty awesome here.
Thereās a small issue with requiring people to post on BLF before they can get help from the retailer. It requires people to have an account. It adds another layer of inconvenience when itās already too difficult to get good support.
As for the QA ideas, it sounds great. But first there needs to be actual formal QA, and before that there needs to be direct communication with no translators in the middle. That would likely solve most issues.
Have you had success with this on an MTG too? I have a light where the center is very yellow, and my two I just received also have this problem, yellow center surrounded by blue.