Ask Terry - the post directly above you. He makes the sales for the US. If he got one, he will sell it to you.
By the way, I have been asked to collect all our information about the two flashlights in another thread outside the GB - so let me sum up the actual situation:
- in the beginning of February the first lights have been sold by retail - the result for the 70 is as expected (a little below spex as usual in the flashlight business, but the babe is a real a$$-kicker), but the one for the 35 is bad - less than 50% of the formerly defined lumen.
In the fact, the first beamshots were really sad:
- a couple of days later we had the possibility to get the first one of the GB-35 in our hands - the results were better, but still no 7.500 lm:
In that time the official output of the 35 was decreased to 7.000 lm. The only problem: the measurement of the GB-version done in an ULLBRICHT sphere is around 4.000 lm…
Actually some of the problems can be pointed down to the batch number:
- the 35 with “21K” at the end is below 50% of the specified lumen. Those lights are actually sold by distributors for much less than the list price with an actualized lumen value.
- the 35 with “28K” is the one from the GB, measured at around 4.000 K
- other versions with “24K” seem to be in the market, but no measurements up to now.
While having the 70 on the secure sight regarding lumen - as I said, some 10-15% less is not too bad in the flashlight-business -, the problems keep on coming. Actually the issues mentioned are as follows:
- the 35 has an output far below spex regarding lumen
- no discharge battery protection - in a test it went down to 2,49 V with the light still at Moonlight, so take care with unprotected batteries
- no temperature control - a GB-delivery was measured with 100 °C while running shortly below Turbo
So: feel free to discuss all of these points in this thread and let us know what you think.