I know and frequently use those coupons. I always wait with bigger purchases until the next sale shows up. Some shops offer also shop coupons and allow you to use select coupons to get 10% off at 60$ or something. And the perfect thing I really love on Aliexpress is that you can combine all of them and this way get an excellent price! :money_mouth_face: The Haikelite prices are actually even lower than some of the Banggood coupons around and include shipping with ePacket. :+1: Haikelite knows how to start serious sales!
Many people here appreciate less than 5000K CCT as well, and/or 80 CRI or above, so I would like to suggest expanding the LED choices.
Do you consider sourcing other MT-G2 LEDs for SC-02 or MT-01?
My specific request would be getting one of these (4000K CCT and 80 CRI):
MTGBEZ-01-0000-0B0HM040H or MTGBEZ-01-0000-0B0HM040F (MTGBEZ-01 reels are only 100 pieces, so it is a lesser investment than MTGBEZ-00 1000 pieces reels)
I would even buy only LED reflowed on MCPCB, so I could replace original LED in a few of my Haikelite SC02 flashlights (maybe there would be interest for a group buy here on BLF).
My SC04 host and the SC26 were shipped today. It took over a week but it is not that urgent to get new flashlights as I won’t be running out of them. Those prices were as low as I have never seen them before.
DBSS, what has been on sale will be on sale again. At the latest on 11.11.
Andybibbville, I have read that the MT09R should be more like 18000 to 20000 lumens. If you would bypass the springs there are 1000 - 2000 lumens to gain but the batteries and the flashlight itself are already at current and thermal limits.
If I didn’t already have a Q30 I would have bought a MT09R as well.
My SC26 arrived last week but unfortunately it was completely DOA. Tried cleaning all the contact points, checked the connections, tried different batteries, still nothing.
I contacted the folks at the Aliexpress Haikelite store and hopefully, they’ll do the right thing and send a replacement. Still waiting.