Thank you. I’m on 3.7. These batteries keep their charge a long time. I haven’t recharged them yet.
The damaged screws are from superiorsell2014 (ebay), but it seems it’s difficult to find better cheap (Chinese) 2.5 mm brass screws.
I just wanted to clarify the above post. Remember that as soon as you enable or disable ramping, the rest of the menu options change. So it’s good to exit, verify, then go back into the menu. It adds time, but it’s less confusing.
It may just be a crap shoot. I ordered a set of 2.5M from here another set from here. The first came in oily, the second clean. No head problems with any. Once the oily ones were cleaned you can’t tell one from the other.
I’m sorry Flintrock, I was having trouble understanding what you were saying. I edited your quote a little.
Can you explain what you mean by med click as it relates to Narsil?
OK… thank you for the info. :+1:
You seem to be a lucky one. Like you, Tom E ordered from booth sellers and all 2.5 mm screws were oily and have these cracks.
Many words about little screws, but I think we all want the best for our beloved Q8. 
Thank you MtnDon… I appreciate that info also. :+1:
Oily screws are a good thing. It prevents oxidation. I would not worry about that.
At JasonWW, "med-click" is a "click and hold" for a short time. Longer than a tap, but not so long, les than 1.25s for example.
As it relates to Narsil? I will explain it as it relates to what I was saying with some connection to Narsil as it is and more connection to how things could work differently.
Presently many people say they like a short tap to turn off the light. They don't like needing to hold the button for say 1.25 seconds to turn off the light (known as long-click off). Well of course a short tap is easier, but that's easier to say if you don't realize the cost of that wish. Then you can't short tap to do other things. Unless you short tap to do other things only sometimes, but then after some timeout, you disable that function and short tap becomes off again. That's how Narsil works. Because of that, there's a timeout of 1.2 seconds after which short taps won't work to step through hidden modes, and will instead turn off the light. That is generally not enough time to figure out which hidden mode you're in and decide if you want to click again. So you have to know how many clicks to do in advance.
This is the cost of not using long click off.
What I was pointing out is that one solution, and no it's not in Narsil, would be to use medium clicks to step through hidden modes. Then you would not need to lock out the medium click after some time and the user could take their time deciding which mode to stop on. You would then have to decide what to do about reverse. Reverse could be short clicks and still with a timeout. That's fine since lockout of reverse doesn't cause as much trouble.
As for med clicks and Narsil as it is now, a reverse click is essentially a med press now.
So this would mean probably that stepping through hidden modes would work backwards to stepping through normal modes. That was true though already in bistro even without this dilemma so there's some precedent for that. On the other hand I'm considering changing in that bistro-HD, again, because short clicks are easier than medium clicks, but in that case I don't have the lockout problem to deal with. In clicky the issue doesn't exist, and in e-switch, I use long click-off. So if I want, I can make short clicks through hidden modes while still letting the user take her time deciding which mode to stop in, without needing to memorize the hidden mode order and count.
Okay, so med click in Narsil would be like a click and hold? I just call it a click and hold to avoid confusion.
I’ve got some On The Road lights where you have to press and hold to turn on and off, but it’s only 0.5 second. It’s still annoying, though. You say there are lights out there where you have to hold it 1.25 seconds just to turn it off? That sounds very annoying.
I think anyone who wants to use those blinky modes in Narsil should just memorize them. I don’t ever use them, but still know its: strobe, tactical strobe, bike strobe, 2 sec beacon then 10 second beacon. So I don’t have to stop on the one I want, I can just stop somewhere in the middle and see what’s flashing. There’s no real precision needed. As long as you don’t stop on the first strobe, your able to move forward and backward as you please. I agree it’s not an elegant way to activate strobe.
Maybe future lights will have a second button so we can easily move forward and backwards then. 
I find myself wishing for 2 buttons, so we could have
click, and
shift-click (or alt-click, or whatever you might call it)
Either that or programming by Morse code ….
I’m just glad we are out of the dark ages of next mode memory or having to cycle through low, med, high, strobe to turn it off. :person_facepalming:
I’m really just fine with Narsil and ramping. :+1:
QUESTION FOR BANGGOOD
Australia Post have lost my light and have provided with an email saying so.
They will not refund me directly and have told me that I need to contact Banggod directly and arrange for a replacement/refund (I would really like a replacement please). If you can forward me details of where I can send the email from Australia Post containing all the details, Banggood can contact them and arrange for a refund.
Hopefully one day I too will own a Q8.
I am in the UK & couldn”t find any brass M2.5 x5mm screws (first batch Q8”s) either locally or online in the UK so I had to order some through ebay UK from a Chinese seller.
My screws arrived this week & although oily (no problem) none of mine have cracks, the heads are perfect.
I ordered from this seller https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Solid-Brass-M2-5-x-5mm-Pan-Round-Head-Phillips-Screws-Machine-Screws/122522908063?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=422959248175&\_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
10 screws for GBP 99p or about $1.30.
Took 10 days to arrive from China so very quick & my pack actually contained 11 screws 
I will hopefully swap the screws out & do spring bypasses over the weekend & will report the lumen increase
First time I hear about the postal service stating they lost a package
This seems straight forwards, PM Swi (BLF nick Banggood) and sure it gets sorted.
I have done this in a firmware and it’s pretty convenient if you know how to morse. But I guess it’s not easy for the standard user.
Another approach is to just program the raw value of a configuration byte, e. g. 3x click - short break - 1x click - short break - 4x click for the value 203. This works pretty well in my current evaluation firmware.
LOL, the dark ages of flashlights.
It’s the first time I have never had a parcel arrive, so it’s all new to me. Still, I’m not going to get excited until I’ve got one in my hand. Thanks for your help.
If it’s dark it’s a crappy flashlight