I had a similar experience, but Neil did respond several times that he was going to ship but never got a tracking #. I later ordered directly from fireflies and received a tracking number in about a week. After this I emailed Neil again about fireflies already shipping there’s that I ordered way after his and almost immediately received his tracking number. I paid for expedited shipping and it arrived in 3 days. It took a little over a month to get the fireflies light with free shipping. Neil gets his lights from fireflies directly. So that’s the wait part of buying from him. But once he gives you that tracking number you better be ready cause it comes FAST!
chinese holidays, everything in china has been offline, i think just yesterday it was the last day… so things should be moving this week hopefully.
China buys are slow, especially during their New Year holiday. It’s better to buy and forget so you don’t drive yourself crazy . ( easier said than done ) 
So Neal is waiting for Fireflies to ship to him?
That seems to make the “5-8 days shipping” a little disingenuous. Should be stated, “will reduce whatever the shipping time will be, between 1-3 months, by 5-8 days”.
I was aware of the Chinese New year situation, as it stated on Neal’s site that they would shut down “from February 1-10”. That banner was changed later to say February 1-13”. I guess I was just expecting some notification by now.
Drop-shipping 101. He should just have Fireflies ship it for him once he gets the order.
did I just make a funny
Neal just acts a middlehand having his own store, so i guess whne he is out of lights he must wait until FF sends him a new batch of lights to him ? i guess they do business different in china.
I think theyre both slow lol
Well luckily I ordered both before the Chinese New Year holiday. That appears to have thrown a monkey wrench into many customers orders.
I’m still waiting on my order too. I ordered Dec 21st from Fireflies and received a shipping notice around Dec 25th. The tracking number still just says “International item has left originating country and is en route to Canada” so who knows when it’ll actually get here.
wow thats crazy… u should contact them, it would have arrived by now dont u think ?
Yeah, I emailed a couple days ago. No reply yet.
I put an order in on New Year’s Day and another on Jan 2nd. Standard shipping. Both arrived in Canada a month ago.
Yeah I kinda figure if I don’t get at least a reply within the next week or so I’ll have to file a paypal dispute.
Anyone with a calibrated tube/sphere have a nichia e07? What is the 1x7135 lumens? The mode that comes on after you redo the tail cap by default.
Ok, finished my E07 led swap today. Nichia’s in the clear ano light now. This install
went much smoother than my first. Both have layer of thermal paste now. I noticed there has to be some variance in the drivers because the nichia E07 moonlight mode is now the dimmest. I thought it was the nichia/XPL thing before now. I may try some beam shot/tint comparisons later. 
I suspect you changed the floor setting (by mistake) on the brighter one. Go through the steps to set it back to 1, but it may or may not flicker a bit on that low of setting
Isn’t the brightness difference due to the XPL being much more efficient in lumens/watt compared to the nichia? ie. for the same milliamps and volts the XPL will be brighter.
He swapped the LEDs and the issue did not go with them. So presumably it’s a hardware (7135) variation or firmware (floor setting) difference.
Lol, I did. No flicker, but that’s the floor on both. One click on both setting up floor.
My previous post will show the XPL moonlight lower than the nichia before the swap. I think it’s got to be something with the driver