I received mine from Neil on Saturday. Beautiful light!!!
I ordered the 6500K version, grey, with purple accent lights.
As far as I can tell, the machining on the body has been adjusted - no sharp edges at all. The misplaced screw in the driver was corrected, and the carolco lens sits perfectly in the four holes designed for its legs WITHOUT one having to be broken off, lol.
I haven’t tried removing the driver to see the condition of the mating between the driver and the pill, but from what I can see through the 4 lens positioning holes, the driver is flush up against the pill and there is thermal paste showing in each of the holes. So maybe they camfered the edge of the driver to allow better seating?
Anyway, wonderful light! Exactly what I was looking for in regards to size, output, style and interface.
Good job, fireflies!
By far the color I like least is purple. However, the lighted switch only comes in purple and having different aux leds would just bother me way to much…. So I chose purple :person_facepalming:
Red would be cool but Red has the lowest output of any color which is why I would’ve chosen blue or yellow. It’s actually surprising there’s no photos of the different aux led colors anywhere on the web
It bugs me more that the switch LEDs are crooked. They’re crooked I think on all six of my FireFlies lights. The E07 is close, but still very noticeable.
I wouldn’t mind red with purple. I don’t get how Neal has ones that Fireflies doesn’t list on his own site or has ever even mentioned.
Neals site doesn’t have an in stock/backorder status anywhere.
I do know from past experience he responds to emails within 24 hours typically.
More important for you though: good luck getting BG to cancel your order. They tried to tell me in the past it’s a multi stage process between customer service, shipping and then back to customer service. They suggested the process only takes about 3 days which in BG time should be 5
I have pondered the same thing but Fireflies website appears pretty low budget to me. My guess is that it’s just not worth it to them to make the changes and add the options. BG doesn’t even mention anything about the aux LEDs being an option.
A website made by a flashaholic for flashaholics is likely the only reason us consumers are given the options we want. Neal’s the man! :sunglasses:
they did actually cancel it, got a follow upreply from someone, and i look now my order it says split up and the item in stock is sent now even… so guess it worked, now waiting for the refund on paypal tho which says can take up to 72hours.
Correct, didn’t realize it was the same. Thought that because the PM code for BG is the actual pre-order price and it’s the cheapest. That code isn’t listed anywhere and must be requested. Thought the neals one would be the same
I communicated w/FF and left a standing order for a clear ano w/blue switch and matching aux leds. Didn’t get a lot of positive vibes…butt I can dream!
so using 40t cells isnt a good idea for the sst20 ? i have a pair of those on its way and vapcell 20A… i mean there arent lots of options for high drains, usually they are 35A or 20 or something ? seems weird the light can go bad if using a higher rating then 20 ? using 10A cells would that work for highest mode sst20 nw without early stepdowns because 10A only ?