Paid $10
Thank you.
Texas_Ace BLF Calibrated Lumen tube / Sphere No math skills needed - Several spheres still available
Thanks for the payments guys, and just to make sure it is clear, While I am very grateful for those that want to cover the expense of the fix, all I am requesting is a small payment of a few cents so I don’t have to go find the old payments. Saves me ~5-10 minutes per order depending how far it is buried.
Anyone that desires to send more, I am very grateful. 
10 cents sent.
Great, Hopefully everyone sees this over the next few days and I can have everyone listed as fresh payments by the time they are ready to ship out.
four bucks sent. Thanks TA for hooking us up!
Sent a Fiver your way! 
I just PayPaled you 444 TA. :+1:
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444 of these…… 
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I only wish I had 444 Indian Head pennies!! 
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I also sent $5.00 yesterday before I left for work!
Payment sent $5.
So you get the addresses again with an easy to print shipping label, do we need to send this “Friends and Family” or “Goods and Services” ?
Pretty sure I sent it “Friends and Family” for the tube but I added my address in the message field. But I don’t think that would have created a automatic shipping label.
With friends and family you pay the the paypal fee, $0.45 on $5. With goods and services it deducts the fee from the payment, so for $5 TA recieves $4.55. So either way is good, it just changes what he recieves.
I also added my username and address in the notes field just in case.
Ok, I got in late last night and didn’t update the thread. I was able to get half of the discs cut yesterday. I am going to try to get the rest done today or tomorrow.
They should ship out by Monday.
I am also going to get some pictures of how to install them.
Correct, goods and services is best this time around since it is mostly about the address and shipping label and less about the money. I can still make the label manually if it is included in the notes, just takes a bit of extra work, still easier then finding the old payments though.
TA, thanks for the answer,
$5.00 sent for goods and services
Actually either way is not good, I know about how paypal fee’s work, my question for TA was pertaining to him being able to easy print a shipping label, which does not happen with Friends and Family.
Okay, I misunderstood.
Ok, a long day of Laser cutting, testing, installing and working later I have now finished cutting all the correction disks and testing them out by installing them in the 13 spheres I have left here.
I am very happy with the results. Even after installing all the disks only 1 out of the 13 spheres was outside of my /-5% tolerance range goal and it was 6. So 7/- seems very reasonable for an official rating.
This is also comparing it to my new “standard” light which I did not have the first time around, so I am even more happy about that :partying_face:
That is enough for me to consider this a success personally since that is the hardest part.
It is also good enough for me to say they are ready to ship out.
So Tomorrow I am going to try to get all of the people that have sent a payment for the address shipped out. If anyone has not sent a payment now is a good time to do it. I have not checked the exact numbers but looks like about ~2/3 to 3/4 have sent their address just glancing at it.
Once again big thank you for those that chose to cover the cost of the fix.
Also, those 13 spheres I installed the correction disks into are for sale for anyone that missed the Group buy.
I just got done finding, printing shipping labels and packing all the orders I could find. I got 27 out of the 32 total ordered between the people that sent a new payment and those that I could find from the old payments.
If anyone does not get the correction discs just let me know and I will send you out a set.
I also sent 3 discs to most of you, just in case one breaks in shipment, it is easier to include an extra then ship another. Only 2 of them will be used though.
These discs seem to read slightly different then the sheet I get before. This seems to work out to around ~.67, so pretty darn close to prefect in most cases. Although a few of the old discs are mixed in so it is possibly it could vary a little if you get one of the old discs.
Luckily no matter which combo you have it should still be within the tolerance range I was aiming for as I didn’t even notice the difference when putting together the 13 spheres yesterday and they still came out within spec.
The official install instructions for the correction discs are as follows
The discs have a textured side and a smooth side.
Simply remove the lux meter from the PVC pipe and insert 2 of the correction discs Both smooth sides should face towards the INSIDE of the PVC pipe
It is hard to tell in the pictures but both textured sides are facing out, towards the meter.
Then simply reinstall the meter to hold them in place:
I forgot to include the directions for installing the 4” discs with the package. The pictures below should help explain it.
Use some normal tape and run it around the edge of the lux meter and disks to hold them in place. It does not have to be very fancy, just hold them in front of the meter.
Alternatively you can hot glue the discs to the meter but this is not super easy to do.
After the disks are attached to the meter simply insert it into the tube and enjoy!
For the 4”, will it make a difference how far the diffuser disk is installed from the meter? If I hot glue it, it will be further away from the meter than taping it directly to the meter.
On the 4” spheres I put together yesterday I first taped the discs to the meter, except instead of running the tape around the edge I just put a strip across the discs. This was to hold it in place.
Then I ran a bead of glue around the exposed edge and after it had mostly cooled cut/peeled away any excess that would keep it from being inserted into the PVC.
So the discs ended up the same distance away either way.
That said, the distance the discs are from the meter will have a minor effect on the readings. Getting the glue on more then the edge will have an effect as well, generally lowering the readings some.
I recommend trying it with tape first and making sure it is reading correct. If you have a choice I would pick a setup that gives you slightly high readings figuring that the glue will drop it a little.