The real reason for Haikelite not putting in 4000k 80CRI emitters were not because they were hard to find. I easily found them at Mouser and Arrow, and I could easily order them myself.
The problem would be that the top bin of 4000k 80CRI is quite a bit more expensive than the lower bins, which is why Haikelite did not put them in their lights.
4000k
3000k (NASA had me install these into a GT for them, looks like an incandescent light, pretty neat actually)
In the real world the 80cri have a much lower forward voltage and usually are only a little behind the 70cri in lumens from my testing. For example the P2 4000k in my L6 was a bit over 9k lumens and my 80cri M4 bin 4000k is around 8500 lumens, it just pulls about a fair amount more current to do that.
I can also get different xhp35 HI tints as well:
70cri D2 bin 5700k
80cri C4 bin 4500k
80cri C2 bin 4000k
80cri C2 bin 3000k
XHP35 HD (HD has the dome still on it, a bit less throw but more lumens, I like them in everything but a dedicated thrower myself):
Former Haikelite USA distributor replied: “Almost forgot. I Spoke with Dale last night. Haikelite knows nothing of their brand listing on Aliexpress so a little warning. Purchasing those are totally non authorized and will not be covered by the brand in any way.”
I would double check with Dale to see if this is true though. I personally tend to think the lights are legit.
I just checked, but there is no option for Paypal. Maybe you can contact the seller and transfer money via Paypal; this is also possible with Simon from Convoy on Aliexpress.
Interesting but true. I just changed the destination country on top of page to USA, and the Paypal logo just popped up. First time I experience region based Paypal option.
I think I read somewhere that HL will be using P2 bin emitters. If that’s the case, they should be getting 21k lumen sper Newlumen’s TA_tube measurements. That’s actually not far off from their 24k claim considering the majority of flashlight manufacturers way over specify their lumen ratings. It seems only Olight/Acebeam/Thrunite have been pretty spot on with their advertised lumens. I found even some premium brands like Zebralight overrate their lumens much more than that after testing it with my TA_tube.