I’d love to see a light manufactured that you were involved with designing, even a zoomie Somebody not getting back to you sounds like a huge missed opportunity.
An update from Neal: Optics are expected next week, and assembly should start very quickly. He’s planning to send some items for smoke testing to make sure nothing is broken, and then it sounds like actual production can happen. Emitters are XP-L HI 3D and SST-20 4000K.
An optimistic timeline puts launch at about 3 weeks, if everything goes as well as possible.
I’m glad to hear about the SST-20, both because it should avoid further delays with a high-CRI option, and because I think it’s a better beam shape for most use cases than the LH351D in a triple (though I’m quite fond of the latter in a reflector).