Very interesting, thanks 
Bort, that’s for 12V configuration. Crazy isn’t it?
Fresh? I’ll say, SinkPAD just got this first batch in Monday.
I have some day old bread, but these have a much longer shelf life 
I skimmed all 13 pages looking for links, but my apologies if I missed it - Is there a source for buying the XHP70 that actually has it in stock available to order?
Mouser USA had some. That’s the only ones I know of right now. Anything else is probably 5+ weeks out, before they have stock.
When I was on the Mouser site this morning it said they was a 600 unit back order, but it seemed that they had 82 on hand. I guess that means that any order over 82 they couldn’t fill anyway so why tie them up. That’s good for us that only need a few to fulfill our needs.
Mouser got those in the other day, Thursday or Friday. They had 100 coming in, two more backorders in the wings. So my 3 were part of the 18 that have been shipped out to make that 82 show up from the 100 that just came in. That means I should see em Tuesday, no mail tomorrow for MLK day.
Edit: Forgot to mention they’ve got XHP50’s coming around Feb 15th. 
All warm tint though as far as I could get from talking to em, like 3000K with 80+ CRI or something like that. I’ll be trying those as well, just because.
I have one of those warm white XHP50's, I ordered it before I got Hanks sample to test. I don't know yet what to use it for, for an output test the results are too predictable AFAIC (similar voltage performance as the cooler ones, and less output).
You’re misinterpreting a little bit. Unlike other vendors, Mouser shows what they’ve got on order. What Mouser has ordered from their suppliers! If you click next to the 600 on “View Delivery Dates” it will show you when they expect to get that stock: one batch of 400 in a month followed by a batch of 200 in another month after that.
“Gotcha”
by reading this ill wait to see if there orders get sent out?
Paypal protection is much longer now, right?
last i checked was 45 days ?
The protection is 6 months now, not 45 days.
Here’s a notification of the change: Policy Updates
And here’s the document that actually changed: PAYPAL USER AGREEMENT
Section 13.2.
Had no idea they did that its good as a buyer but as a seller it sounds like a bad idea, i sold a iphone 5 the guy who bought it loved it till he dropped it and wanted a refund 40 days later, u should no what happen next i get a broke phone and he got his money back
I agree, this is a terrible change from the sellers’ perspectives.
OTOH it solves a dilemma faced by the nicer individuals who order from China and are asked to “wait, wait, wait” for surface mail. Often nice folks who trusted sellers were asked to wait beyond 45 days. For many people this was no problem since the packages eventually showed up. Other people were unable to have that much faith for whatever reason (burned in the past, etc) and felt compelled to file a claim at the 45 day mark. Several members here keep datasheets and previously filed a claim for any unreceived goods 45 days after payment as standard policy! This was never the intended use of Paypal’s dispute resolution system; therefore the practice was detremental to the system. In the end the 45-day limit caused several things…
- It made it very difficult for the system to judge good sellers from bad due to the signal:noise ratio.
- Good sellers who used slow surface mail shipping or ran into problems (like returned li-ions from mailcarriers) were sometimes wrongly punished.
- Extra work for buyers determined not to get the short end of the stick (keeping spreadsheets, filing disputes at the 45 day mark on the dot, etc).
- Beyond the cost of resolving disputes for packages that would eventually arrive anyway, international sellers (as well as those providing custom orders which took a long time to build) which faced another problem: many buyers were simply unwilling to deal with the risks involved with that 45-day limit.
So while for many sellers the change increases risk, there are also benefits for many. Increased buyer confidence leading to higher sales AND reduced losses through the elimination of honest but unnecessary “item not received” claims.
So yeah, meh.
I didnt read all 8 pages of this thread, but here is my update.
LCK-LED has the XHP 70 in stock, but its not a top bin.
Cutter has them listed as in stock on a copper star in the N4 bin
http://www.cutter.com.au/products.php?cat=Cree+XHP70
As mentioned before the 50 size emitters will work on XML boards in 6V but not in 12V
I will stock the 70 size boards, but am not sure about the 12V 50 size yet.
I will be carrying XHP50 and XHP70 in about a month, but I am still not sure what the bin and tint will be. Copper 6V and 12V XHP50/XHP70 Sinkpad MCPCBs are already available.
I am thinking about a multi-emitter XHP70 build. Any suggestions for a good host? I was thinking about doing a 3x XHP70 Supfire M6, with 8x18350s powering it.