Q8, PMS SEND TO THOSE WITH ISSUES BLF soda can light

Lilien · 2017-09-16T13:54:31.000Z

I’ve two questions.
Does the hard anodizing actually look like HAIII as described on the Banggood website or is this an error and it’s only HAII?
And what was the declared value on the packaging?

Thanks and regards!

BrianK · 2017-09-16T13:54:50.000Z

I’m not exactly certain that this is the way shipping works, but it makes sense to me that it works the following way, especially inexpensive shipping. If I was the shipping company I would wait until I have the most economical way to ship a package. To my mind that means waiting for whatever container holding the package to be filled before starting the jet. To take this to an extreme, I wouldn’t fly the jet anywhere for one package. Why did the US and specifically California get their lights soonest? We had a lot of them shipped here, simple as that, my full container theory at work and I expected it. Why California? LA was the port of entry for customs and is in California, so those lights had a very short distance to travel to get to the owners.

FedEx did the same thing with the one light that I’m tracking. It sat for a time in LA before even being picked up by FedEx and beginning it’s journey to me.

I ship lots of stuff and I do exactly what I just wrote. Slower shipping means that those packages wait until there are enough to pay for the trip into town to get them shipped because it just makes no economic sense in time and gas to drive all the way into town for one package. Folks who pay for faster shipping, I can do that right from my facility and I can ship those not later than the next business day.

I know folks are impatient, but cheap shipping from China isn’t exactly express delivery, more like pony express. Sometimes it happens in a bit over a week and sometimes over a month. I just waited for a package for over a month from China. Yes, it’s the pits but that’s the way it is. One gets what one pays for and a few bucks extra for expedited shipping doesn’t mean that one is getting something overnighted by DHL. Fast international shipping is VERY expensive. In the case of the lights I don’t even think that type of shipping was an option (maybe it was?), and unless it is an option and it’s paid for, all the shipper can do is get it out their door expeditiously. The rest is in the hands of other folks once it’s out the door.

BTW, I still don’t know why mine shipped so fast. When I ordered I was placing a pre-order. Then a few hours later I was informed that it had shipped. Someone mentioned that now orders can be shipped as soon as they come off the production line. Maybe that’s what happened; that a new box of lights arrived and mine shipped. That’s all I can think of to explain it.

Flashy_Mike · 2017-09-16T14:05:33.000Z

Lexel:

my one is also stuck in HingKong

Hong Kong [CN]
2017-09-10 12:00 Arrived In Hongkong, Waiting To Fly Away.
2017-09-09 21:30 Leaving The Shenzhen Operations Center.
2017-09-09 12:09 Shenzhen Operations Center Processing Package Information.

I guess it’s the same carrier as with my lights. Actually we don’t know if delivery is stuck. It’s the tracking that doesn’t work.
If you track with 17track you’ll probably notice the response is only a cached one, several days old (click on the red triangle). The tracking site of DPD Hongkong (dpdgroup.hk, where 17track gets it’s information) does not exist anymore - and I deeply hope it’s only the website and not DPD Hongkong itself!

Etex · 2017-09-16T14:27:38.000Z

With regards to the driver board screw heads discussion, I took these measurements. I even crammed a thick pen in the hole in the center of all the batteries to spread them to maximum outside diameter.

Inside ID of screw heads vs outside OD of button tops. Looks like no real risks at all.

Edit: Sony VTC6 flat tops measure 35.69mm OD

!!

TheOnlyDocc · 2017-09-16T14:13:43.000Z

Same here! Last update 6 days ago. And the DPD HK Site is not helping. I also used Priority Direct Mail

@Etex
What size are the Screws? M3?

Yokiamy · 2017-09-16T14:36:17.000Z

XXX-Man:

Ordered in first 200 but no tracking info yet…

Try package radar, i tried your code from your package and it behaves the same as mine,it showed up on bpost and 17track, until a few days ago, then it disappeared!
Package radar still has some info though which was available on bpost earlier on.
I contacted BG and basically they said, please wait.

maildroid · 2017-09-16T14:37:16.000Z

Ok I sent them an email regarding my order and was told that now I ordered the first day . That mine would not be shipped till October 17 . Really wow . Maybe Christmas I’ll get this lol

The_Miller · 2017-09-16T14:46:51.000Z

Maybe it is best to collect questions to Banggood and ask them for everyone instead of flooding them with emails individually?

PBWilson · 2017-09-16T14:47:19.000Z

17th? I thought they were getting the remaining lights ready to go by the 7th.

Who knows? I’m just happy that my lights will be arriving “soon.”

PBWilson · 2017-09-16T14:47:36.000Z

Or was it the 10th? I can’t keep up.

Lowtech · 2017-09-16T14:51:18.000Z

BrianK:

I’m not exactly certain that this is the way shipping works, but it makes sense to me that it works the following way, -order.

Well i work at an airport but cargo only planes so i cant speak for those.

But tons and tons of china stuff get sent with regular mail and at least in sweden there is a small mountain of mail thats not been sorted at the airport.

And normal passanger flights can take around 1-2tons of mail and cargo. Upto 20-30 to larger 330s.

Its very likly things get stuck in some unsorted pile.

Tom_E · 2017-09-16T14:57:56.000Z

Q8 with some super flooders:

From left to right, 37K modded S88 clone, 12K stock MF01, 6K Q8 proto, 27K modded MT03:

4 lights that can get really hot, so had to include some fresh harvested Reaper, Carolina Reapers...

atbglenn · 2017-09-16T14:59:09.000Z

My order says it should be shipped out by the 7th of October.

PBWilson · 2017-09-16T14:59:47.000Z

Those reapers look scary. It’s like they are withering under their own heat!

BrianK · 2017-09-16T15:09:30.000Z

Lowtech, That’s certainly possible or even likely.

Heck, it’s even possible here in the US. I once had a package enter and go through the same sorting center 5 days straight until I called and asked them to have a human do something.

rizky_p · 2017-09-16T15:11:29.000Z

same here…

XXX-Man:

Ordered in first 200 but no tracking info yet…

Yokiamy · 2017-09-16T15:23:40.000Z

rizky_p:

same here…

XXX-Man:

Ordered in first 200 but no tracking info yet…

Did you try packageradar yet as stated in My last post ?

XXX-Man · 2017-09-16T15:31:01.000Z

Not much more info on package radar

derpilgerer · 2017-09-16T15:53:30.000Z

The Mailman was here and I serve you some pictures at least for the waiting:

at whitewall it performed really good vs my Meteor. At the end the cells in the meteor were empty so tonight vs fully charged ones.
Thanks again for this great light. Awesome Firmware. I use ramping atm but sure will have a deeper look at the modes, since I like me a handfull of good modes :-).
I hope you guys get yours as soon as possible, the waiting paid off. Im very happy to have this light very early to this awesome price, since I waited for my Emisar D4 six painfull weeks. So I guess I deserve it.

rayman007 · 2017-09-16T15:46:39.000Z

Received mine today and I am from the Netherlands. Chose the 2usd shipping option so happy with the shipping time. I like it a lot and so far seems like its a-ok