WTS: Real CREE XP-G emitters. as low as 20 cents each!

I think i’m gonna put some of these on aluminum stars……

people that dont reflow? need them to replace FAKES in the cheap 68 lights

sometimes having obsolete parts is a blessing.
i bought several hundred reels of parts 10 years ago.
now some are in big demand and the market is flooded with remarks.
and i often use these now unobtainium parts to repair industrial stuff.stuff where you cant just buy a new board or spend $1m on a new machine.
or just do silly stuff with them.
like put altilon 1x4 in a desklamp.
price that one out.if you can buy them at all.
but if you get more i will add to my stash.
at your price one can do silly things with them with impunity.

funny to think i will be paying more for a metal slug with traces on it than an led.
you should link a few good tutorials on diy led reflowing in your original post.its really easy.will boost sales.
i do them with a temp controlled heatgun and plain ol kester “44”

Shipping for 50pcs , in Greece ? thanks

Have you guys found a good and inexpensive source for aluminum stars? None of these will be going in high power lights, so no need for copper. Just want a decent-but-inexpensive AL star option.

Edit: just found this:

https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10001841/1133802-star-base-plates-for-cree-xp-exp-g-10-pack

$1.38 for 10pc ($0.14/ea), or quantity discount would be $5.60 for 50pc ($0.11/ea). But to get the 50pc price obviously then you would only have one size star.

Seems like OK price if quality is acceptable.

illumn
too bad the 3 up isnt series

I was going to mix’n’match 20mm, 16mm, Al, Cu, etc., just to stock up. Wasn’t planning on using the same stars for everything.

These look okay. No reason I can see to not get them.

I haven’t mounted any yet or lit one up.
Anyone have?
Got pics?

giorgoskok——>

i sold to a member GUNGA in canada? to test int’l shipping… it was EXPEN$IVE.

I only charged him “like he was in the USA”, and paid it out of my pocket? because i was curious about int’l shipping…

it actually would be “okay”, but… anything thicker than a piece of paper? it goes thru the roof…

I will check when i go to the post office and see?but be prepared for sticker shock… that said? I’ll ship it to the planet JUPITER if the customer pays the shipping.

I received a padded envelope from the US , without tracking , last week , for 4.5$ shipping .

Take a look when you have time. Thanks

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I received a padded envelope from the US , without tracking , last week , for 4.5$ shipping .
Take a look when you have time. Thanks
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okay… just like you said? members from all over europe and eastern europe… were telling me the same thing. A couple/several dollars…no big deal.

when i am AT THE POST OFFICE, though? All i can DO is tell the lady behind the counter “how much to ship this to Malaysia” and she weighs it, and checks the thickness? and says “it’ll be this much… (a LOT!) ”:

Then i politely explain how “everybody” says thats wrong…. the lady behind the counter claims that if its any thicker than a piece of paper? its THIS price…

I cant MAKE the people at the post office “do anything”. The lady behind the counter keeps saying “Look, its too thick… and i don’t care what some guy in Malaysia is telling you.”

Honestly? i believe you guys… i really do… but you have to convince the lady behind the counter at the POST OFFICE, not me. I will try again. Trust me? I dont like losing sales because the lady at the post office has been taught to “upsell me”.

Sedstar try this

PM sent

mine should be here soon.
i will mount one and critique it.
going to put a few in my “polished turds” link
they should be more efficient than the china luxeon clones.

Any news on the shipping ?

giorgioskok…

PM… i shipped to DENMARK today, and it was “reasonable”… so, greece should be good to go…

…and thanks to BOAZ and the others? who “persevered” to train me to ship international…

whoever was saying it was the “thickness” was right… i was just shoving the strips of REEL into the padded envelops.

they curl up and sit sideways…… i taped them to a piece of notebook paper? layed FLAT stayed FLAT and you couldnt tell it wasnt just a piece of paper in there, heh heh

lady finally gave me reasonable shipping, cost just like to here in the states…

i assume all/most countries will cost the same as DENMARK did?

gonna try GREECE next…

plus i went back and PMed the guys back on the “interest thread” that got this going, so they dont feel left out, i mean the couple international guys that thought i couldnt ship to them, as not\w i probably can.

now i am thinking about a “giveaway”… i’m well over 500 posts… seems to be a “rite of passage” that when you go from regular flashaholic, to “semi pro flashaholic”, you are supposed to do a giveaway…

I just need a “theme”… hmmm…

Great news.
Yes stretched out taped flat its less than 1/8”.
That was the trick when I sent out smd opamps to my audiophile freinds.

Hmmm… Since shipping to EU seems to be reasonable…
Wait… What am i gonna do with XP-G anyway…?
Hmmm… I’ll think of something… maybe…
Give me a couple of days. :smiley:

Opamps and not tubes!? Heresy!

And they call themselves “audiophiles”… Audiophonies! :smiley:

Nah, just raggin’ on them. I don’t buy into the whole magic-copper used in braided wires blessed by a golden-eared Tibetan monk kind of thing.