With over 750 lights spoken for on the eagle eye GB, I wonder if any other dealer/mfgs have taken notice. Quality product to BLF specifics and look at the results. I mean how can they not notice. Thats a huge volume. Hopefully more show up asking for suggestions as to what we want. Win win for everyone.
Asking what we want and actually delivering is a whole different critter
Too many people want too much different stuff
There should be a BLF basic upgrade such as
Copper star at a minimum
Better driver/firmware [w/ NO PWM in low modes](and a decent amp output (3A is a good medium)
BLF engraving
everything else is fluff and drives the price up…for those that want to heavily tweak or MOD them then let the individual do that, but for a GP BLF build…those should be minimum
OR, offer a host only option from the get go
This is exactly what they should do, I’m willing to pay $4 less and take it without LED and driver, it actually benefits them and don’t have to deal with warranty issues, and saves tons of time in the process.
Let’s say the X6 as a host only option for $16, with decent throw, good heat-sinking, AR lens, will easily outsell the M2 and C8 IMO.
A finished light can please some of the people most of the time, or most of the people some of the time; but a host can please most of the people in most of the time!!
I have worked in a factory assembly line environment and I can tell you that pulling parts off the line before they're completed at the last station is no simple thing. It's likely it would cost more to produce with some parts left out due to having to reconfigure the whole line, relocate the final packaging station, reassign workers to different stations, etc.
My experience is vastly different from yours, apparently. Individual parts, or components, come in boxes to the factory already. And, in the factory I’m currently working in, they are doing more and more kitting of parts. That means, they have areas of the plant already set up with workers to pull parts from several boxes and put them together in a single tote per production unit. When the tote goes to the line, the worker there has everything they need for one production unit at a time. That way, they don’t have to pull individual parts off a shelf or rack, or run around looking for things. Since production units vary throughout the day, it keeps them from having to think about which parts they need to pull for the next one, since it is already done, in order of need, from the kitting area.
Even without general purpose kitting, setting up one more area with one or two workers for the purpose of doing something a little different shouldn’t be too hard to do. Then again, I’m in the USA, and I’m aware that manufacturing processes are certainly different in China.
Right, that's my point. If the line is designed for that kind of thing from the start, which most aren't, it isn't any harder. If it's a type of factory where each worker does all or multiple operations at their station it's not a big deal, but if it's a traditional line where each person does only one specific operation over and over and over all day long then it's a huge disruption.
Someone should patent (note, I snark) this as a business model — because getting a large group of very interested people in the rest of the world to help people in China (India, Pakistan, Lithuania, wherever) to design and build anything this well, interactively, doing all the testing is adding an astonishing amount of thought to the process. Being able to actually use that information at the building end is taking some effort there. But it does seem to be working.
Get the process right and it could improve a whole lot of things.
I am waiting on someone to do a GB with SureFire on the Peacekeeper BLF Platinum Plus Digital HD Stereo Dolby Limited Edition Turbo SRT Hellcat 6plus, it would come with laser etched name of your choice, free shipping world wide, life time free batteries, whale p*s leather carry case, for only $39.99.
Think we could get 500??
Only if equipped with the z06 option.