I still stand firm on earn friendship, cuz i tried to give it away in my younger days, okay i might have been a tad naive back then.
But all i ran into was twofaced jokers that it did take me a while to weed out.
It all became so doom and gloom that i instigated a new rule of thumb, and that is i think every single person on this earth is a dumb-ass, this way when i find out i am wrong i get a pleasant surprise, and the ones it turn out i was right about, well then i dont feel the same grief and can just shrug my shoulders and mumble to myself ” i knew it” and get on with my life.
Oh, I’m not trying to argue with you sparky or saying to be a doormat to anyone. If they don’t want your/my friendship or appreciate it……… leave them in the dust.
I am saying that there have been times when someone may have been friendly towards me and I rejected it. Not in a mean way or anything…. I simply did not pursue it. In that case the “problem” was not them… it was me.
It was what they call day surgery. Imagine that , these days they can slit your throat, grind half the front off the vertebrate with what amounts to a high tech Maxxon and rebuild the disks, slap a ti plate over it and send you home in time for supper. Went in at 11 AM, was in surgery by 3PM and out of surgery by 6PM, home by 8:30PM. And it still takes a year to build a flashlight.
It arrived today, and UI #3 is definitely the way to go. It’s not a UI that’s like anything else so by the time I get accustomed to it the Q8 will be here and I’ll lose everything I learned. But it’s a beast. It definitely uses up the charge in cells in a hurry. But UI 3 helps with that. It’s not designed for throw at all with absolutely no hot spot, just flood, and what throw it has is from sheer floody output. In turbo it’ll easily reach out 100 yards, the limit of what I need. It heats up rapidly but due to step down I assume, my light in turbo never exceeded 117°F in my brief test. But the light won’t last long with 30Qs due to the current requirements of the LEDs/driver. In 10 seconds the head is starting to get warm and in under a minute it has reached the stable temp of 117°F (50°C heat step down).
My initial impression was how small it actually was. Intellectually I knew it was small, but just not how tiny it was until I had it in my hands. It’s shorter by 1/4” than my Manker MK41 which uses AA form cells. Of course it has a larger diameter.
The only thing it lacks is a way to sling it. It’s not required for weight or bulk, but a flood light is an excellent work light after dark, but with a wrist lanyard it doesn’t fit that purpose. Heck, the POJ clone SRK I bought for $20 has a better sling interface than the M43 Meteor.
Sure you are on heavy meds now Dale, but can you already feel a difference?
In any case you’ll be brighten the days of airport security without using flashlights
It arrived yesterday, and UI #3 is definitely the way to go. It’s not a UI that’s like anything else so by the time I get accustomed to it the Q8 will be here and eventually I’ll lose everything I learned. But it’s a beast. It definitely uses up the charge in cells in a hurry. But UI 3 helps with that. It’s not designed for throw at all with absolutely no hot spot, just flood, and what throw it has is from sheer floody output. In turbo it’ll easily reach out 100 yards, the limit of what I need. It heats up rapidly but due to step down I assume, my light in turbo never exceeded 117°F in my brief test. But the light won’t last long with 30Qs due to the current requirements of the LEDs/driver. In 10 seconds the head is starting to get noticeably warm and in under a minute it has reached the stable temp of 117°F (50°C heat step down). I didn’t manually hold the button to get the 70°C step down to see how that works.
BTW, I set up my M43 as goshdogit suggested with mode 3 and while I don’t really remember what mode 1 and 2 were like the way mine is setup now is good. When I was testing mode 1 and 2 I knew that I didn’t much care for them.
My initial impression was how small it actually was. Intellectually I knew it was small, but just not how tiny it was until I had it in my hands. It’s shorter by 1/4” than my Manker MK41 which uses AA cells. Of course it has a larger diameter.
The only thing it lacks is a way to sling it. It’s not required for weight or bulk, but a flood light is an excellent work light after dark, but with a wrist lanyard it doesn’t fit that purpose. Why do manufacturers assume everyone wants to hand carry a light? Why don’t they give options? Oh well. At least the giga thrower will have built in sling points. While on the subject, the lanyard it comes with is the same lanyard that comes with most any Chinese light. You know the type, it has a piece of weak monofiliment covered by black thread to give the illusion of something substantial while the reality is that anyone counting on it to keep their light safe is operating in a fools paradise. I put a wrist lanyard in place on the M43 that came off of a Sunlight SL6 diving light. So manufacturers, get with it and understand that not everyone lives in the city. Some of us actually live where there are no street lights and we need our lights to provide light where there is NONE other than moonlight and the stars and we need both of our hands to do things with while we provide the light to see what we’re doing. Failing that, at least provide a usable wrist lanyard.
I don’t expect manufacturers to actually pay attention to that plea, they appear to not be able to actually understand that their lights are also used by rural folks. so I’ll just keep this post here and not even bother to put it in the review thread. At least I got it off my chest. BTW, I’m not picking on Noctigon, all of the larger lights that I’ve bought to date lack a factory built way to sling them. Only one, a $20 SRK clone came with a substantial wrist lanyard that I would trust the light to. A $20 light got that right, so why can’t the manufacturers of higher quality lights? It’s baffling.
The 50.2’s are a very different light, they will be MUCH floodier and completely change the beam.
That said I have said for a long time that I think a second version of the Q8 could and should be released with 50.2’s to compete with other mega flooders.
For what the Q8 is, I agree that the current XP-L’s are a really good balance of output, beam ect. I wish they were in 4S with a buck driver but that doesn’t change the fact that it works like it is.
A high CRI 50.2 build would be great general use light for close ranges.
The answer is simpicity of build (parallel cells, direct driver), but more important: luminance! The Q8 prototype has only 70% of the output of my (triple XHP70) X7 Marauder, yet it feels like a brighter flashlight because because the smaller dies light stuff up further away, that makes it IMO a more useful flashlight. Wait until everyone has their Q8, we should do a poll comparing it to other flashlights of comparable size (ok, let’s ignore flashlights more than 3 times as expensive ;)) and see which has the best beam
If XHP50. 2 had been available at the start I’d still not wanted them as stock for SRKs have cells in parallel and 4 XHP50 leds probably would be more expensive
Exactly. I know BLF is a weird place to say this, but moar power doesn’t necessarily mean moar better. Lumens aren’t the whole story. The goal is to balance all the factors in the equation, not to max out a single variable.
