I think I know Someone who is quantized, they lack the resolve to feel good.
*yawn* Sorry, I was just rambling between naps, kinda sleepwalking on the keyboard… which apparently gets me even more verbose than usual.
Ah, no… sorry. That wasn’t aimed at you. Someone I know that had an injury a couple of years ago, has been on the meds far too long. Gaining weight, losing the ability to care about much. Becoming the rocky shore as compared to the soft beach, as it were.
I thought it was a great post actually. Thought provoking with useful analogies. Keep those naps coming… 
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I didn’t think they were still giving out opioids long term anywhere anymore. But maybe they are in some places idk.
That whole post I was thinking this should be like the opening monologue to a movie where idk like Matt Damon plays like a professor who teaches an advanced PWM course at MIT and he really likes PWM, always talking about PWM. But then there’s like this other Prof in the department and she likes Matt Damon and Matt Damon likes her cuz she hot but in a lab coat science kinda way like the woman doctor in the first dr. Strange movie. but she thinks he wastes too much time in the lab on his PWM experiments and he’ll never have time for her.
But then one night Matt Damon PW’s too hard in the lab goes into the PWM realm. Emily finds the portal and goes in after him. Cut to black. Open on Matt Damon’s hand reaching out the portal in the middle of a dark desert. He crawls out the portal, in a different part of the world. He’s barely makes it out alive. Then he looks around and realizes… this isn’t a desert. This was my lab! Looks, there’s my picture of Emily I always hid in my drawer. He brushes the dust of the nuclear fallout from the picture and looks around. This is no desert. This was the university. Where is everybody? 200 years have gone by and the world is over. Now Matt Damon has to PWM back through time, save Emily, stop whatever it was that ended the world, get back to his time period, and most of all tell Emily that he will make time for her! He promises. By using PWM…
Coming to theatres this summer
Talk about rambling… 
This is my masterpiece
Emily is dead when he goes back, Karen…
Even think of putting xhp50.3’s in here? Or not worth the effort? Did you end up putting sft40s in the sp36?
I’m thinking of taking all my sofirn stuff with sst40s and green lh351ds and replacing them all with sft40’s and 519a’s across the board.
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I just ordered the Q8 Sofirn EC06, and 3 Molicell 45 amp P42A’s, and am very confused about what upgrades I should do to the flashlight to improve its performance. There are many different upgrades on the forum, so I am just a little confused about which are the most important for the flashlight. Thank you for creating this form, it is extremely helpful, and I am hoping that you will consider my response.
Thank you,
Alex K.
I couldnt find ur post on the sofirn Q8 plus, but did u ever upgrade it at all or anything? I am getting one with the molicell battery, and do not really know what to upgrade… Thanks…
I think initially I did the typical resistance lowering mods, bypassed springs mostly.
Then if I recall correctly I swapped out the Cree emitters for SFQ65’s.
Honestly don’t remember where my Q8 Plus stands at the moment, surgery interrupted and the meds created a holding pattern.
I think this is one of those lights that doesn’t need much by the way of tweaking. Small gains can be made by addressing efficiency through bypasses but really, it works quite well out of the box.
Sorry I can’t be more helpful…
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The Q8 Plus has a nonstandard set of flashing pads (t1616 UPDI, but in the wrong order for gchart’s adapter), so you’ll need to put your own adapter together. You can get header cables and wire a USB UPDI programmer up to a set of pogo pins in a strip. There is a thread somewhere, I’ll take a look (Edit: couldn’t find it, will try and find the time to look later).
I was considering doing it myself but I might just wait for the M44 instead, so I haven’t done the research deep dive into which adapters would be suitable but there are several different boards available similar to the usbasp for the t1634 lights.
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Just bypassed the springs. I ordered an AR coated lens for it off kaidomain just to see what those are like. Idk if it’ll make any difference. It’s pretty bright already.
I want to swap in the newer xhp50.3’s because the tint shift is the only thing that bothers me. But there’s a low chance I’ll end up doing it. Feels like it may be way more trouble than its worth. Kinda pricey just to get a maybe better tint, and good chance I’ll just mess something up lol
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You inspired me! I literally just did a successful spring bypass on my Q8 Plus!
I was here thinking that a cooling shell similar to the ms8 and other imalent would help control the temperature of the Q8 plus. the hole to screw the shell is already there. Anyone who does this will certainly gain a few more minutes of high light…
Don’t know if this helps but i put the XHP50.3’s on my SP36 and there’s a “blue” spot on the center of the hotspot, only visible on a white wall, but it’s there, and also appeared on my other smooth reflector lights. The SFT40 is clearly the best option for the SP36 and any other smooth reflector light. Tint shift is gone though.
Didn’t tried the HI, but it might result in the same artifact.
If you really want the 50.3 on it and you have an older SP36 there’s space for a second mosfet on the board, just some scratches away from the existing one 
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Going to the domeless version usually removes the “Cree rainbow” that some lights have, so it probably won’t be as bad.
I meant to say the small blue spot on the hotspot, not tint shift, but i didn’t tried it so i can’t confirm. I’ve heard tint shift on the HI is basically non-existent.
I think that’s what tint shift is. Or one of the definitions anyways.