Posting the number of units desired helps Sofirn gauge how many lanterns to produce for the BLF buy so it’s a good for everyone to do that. Of course nobody is obligated to buy the number that they express an interested in so it’s basically a best guess type of thing.
I added you for another 2 lanterns and you’ll see that reflected in next week’s updates.
Once again, thanks to all members involved for your great help in revising/completing the English manual. Special thanks to sbslider and stereodude for their efforts over the past weekend in looking at the details and trying to tie up any loose ends. :THUMBS-UP: :BEER:
So far, the manual seems to be 99.9% finished. Barry (Sofirn Shenzhen) has been asked some more questions but these remain unanswered at this point of time. These are...
Since none of these three questions will cause any real issue, sbslider and I think they can be left "as is" in the manual. Should we still get any more feedback by Sofirn I will be glad to supplement missing information into the manual accordingly. I will have a final look at the manual's layout today and forward it to Sofirn, so they can start printing it by tomorrow. Thanks to your great help, batch no. 1 (first 500pcs) will also be having the right manual already.*
(* provided that Sofirn did not start printing their initial draft of the manual already)
Edit: Sofirn apparently printed their initial version of the manual already, i.e. customers of the first 500 pcs (batch #1) are encouraged to use the updated manual hosted on my sharepoint, see post no. [tba].
We don’t need a manual, we need the lantern! 
put me down for one, ty
Interested in getting a lantern. Put me down for one, thanks!
Please find below the updated manual, checked and edited contentwise by sbslider and stereodude (once again, thank you guys!) and updated layoutwise by me today. You can also download the manual conveniently from my Sofirn sharepoint on Google drive, click ► here ◄.
A couple of pedantic suggestions. Feel free to ignore any or all of them:
Its easy to do. -> “It’s easy to do”
While ramping the LT1 blinks -> “While ramping, the LT1 blinks”
The LT1 has two different ramp modes; -> “The LT1 has two different ramp modes: ”
Not everything is covered in this diagram, please read the text -> “Not everything is covered in this diagram; please read the text”
theUI -> “the UI”
or stepped). . -> ” or stepped).”
The instructions are great. I wish all my lights had such detailed information!
Please put me down for two. Thank you!
Lux, sbslider, stereodude - that updated manual is…. Nice. :+1:
great work - thanks guys!
Looks good :+1:
Please add me to the GB list for one lantern.
Thanks!
Please put me down for one. Thx!
Good Afternoon,
Please add me to the list for one lantern.
Thanks
So you are saying the first 500 customers will have the LT1 limited-edition collectors-item manual.
Yes, “limited-edition” in that your ability to read and understand it will be quite limited. Or, limited in that the behavior and features of the LT1 will align with the descriptions in the manual. :student:
That’s unlikely to deter anyone from ordering as soon as they can!
Many thanks to everyone who worked on the manual in marathon mode over the past week. While it was unfortunate that the matter did not come up sooner, we can be grateful that the issue arose before more copies were printed 
. Another week and buyers would have been stuck with the old manual.
The grammatical corrections by nicois are worth including in the reference manual, but they are not critical to using the lantern. Though many will deem these corrections irrelevant, it is actually quite impressive to receive a manual for a Chinese product that contains accurate grammar in your local language; such details are extremely rare today and they are surprisingly effective at conveying quality and value, even if non-critical.
Thanks again!
Yup. :money_mouth_face: It’ll be worth a fortune someday.
Do we have any confirmation on the colors yet? Or how long of a gap there will be between the first 500pcs and the second batch?
I just did a quick search. If you can prove me wrong, please do. The first post I found that tried to figure a price point was one by djozz, where he speculated it could be done by $30. But that was quickly followed up by The Miller, who was actively involved on the team at that time, where he said a reasonable price should be around $50. Back then, it was still expected to have only one LED and a Qlite driver with a TP4056 chip added for charging. A newer, advanced driver design didn’t come along until a month after The Miller predicted that price point. I think Den and the team have done well to keep it as low priced as it is, considering how much more has been added to the design since then. :money_mouth_face:
HERE is the post from The Miller.
Like I said a few posts back, it was never “reasonable” to assume the LT1 would be cheaper than the Q8.