Great News :+1:
No information about that in TLF so far 
Does your Question means that there will be two LED options?
Poll (2018-06-08): Voting is open for emitter details: (results: the top choices were XP-L HI 3D and LH351D 4000K)
You will be put back on the list only if you apologize. 
What exactly do you need ?, a ship ,pepper, clematis or a keyboard ?also please state colour.
Please donāt tease the new people. Save that for older members.
No discount for you. You must pay FULL PRICE! :smiling_imp:
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Yes, you should be added to the list in the next week or sooner. Welcome to BLF.
Will someone please send TK a new prototype? Or at least tell us what has changed in the approved-for-production design?
Fritz15 has not yet sent the new files
Fritz15 said: heāll send them soon.
Hum, I guess Nev was just remembering his words a while back 
:+1: Good to have news about this ! Thanks Neal and Fritz! I guess even the skeptics will now believe it is true :sunglasses:
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:+1: ā¦ :+1: ā¦ :+1: ā¦ Great idea, but we can only hope & dream this will happen. 
Surely TK should have one of each LED choice, to fine-tune the ramping and thermal control for production firmware for each variant? If this is going to be done properly.
Reading between the lines, the metalwork has not yet been cut and finished, the driver PCB is undergoing a minor re-layout (so not yet made), at least one of the potential LED options has not yet been sourced, etc. So, personally, Iām not holding my breath.
That said, if it is a solid design, well production-engineered, and the operators trained up to put it together, test it, correct any faults, package it, etc. it should only take a day or so to build the first batch, once the pieces have been delivered from the subcontractors. And a production slot booked. PS: there are only 365 1/4 days in a year, of which 200 or so are usable in the West.
Unless it is all being done in-house, which would surprise me.
This is where the Q8 slipped up, but Thorfire/Sofirn quickly nipped that in the bud for batch 2, and beyond.
Then there are the logistics. From whom are we going to buy this ? That didnāt go too well with the GT, presumably there is a different plan for this one ?
This should all be standard stuff for a GB co-ordinator to manage. Do we have one here ?
Tom Tom, how is it that sometimes you want nothing to do with the group buy and then other times you act like youāre running it?
Can you please stop trying to help out? Let the people in charge do their thing. Please. Please. Thank you.
Hm, asked he for reels or single ones for a prototype?
I seem to have leveled out at the I can eat a raw habanero in 10 minutes and not die level. A guy I work with conditions himself by eating a whole raw scorpion or reaper a day, sliver by sliver. I just dont get it. I tried a sliver of reaper the size of my pinky nail and was hurting for a good 7-10 minutes.
On another note, glad to see the FW3A project gaining traction again. Just curious though, whats the risk of an electrical short with this battery tube/eswitch design? Might not be any, but im having a hard time visualizing it from the drawings.
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Order one for me, HP-L Hi.
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Those links are for specific quantities of cut tape. If Neal is asking about sourcing for the full project, Digikey offers better pricing for reels in increments of 800 emitters, for at least $0.41 USD cheaper per emitter than that link. That adds up quickly for a project Iām sure will be using several thousand emitters.
Hereās links for tape and reel.
Iām sure an experienced buyer could negotiate a better price, assuming that they have a signed BOM and commitment for a substantial quantity.
Otherwise it just seems rather amateur.
The same goes for all the other parts.
@iamlucky13, I thought he only wanted samples, not a full reel.
If so, Iāll be including them in my original post.
The inner tube is only there there to pass the tail switch signal (normally open, signal is connect to ground) from the tail to the driver.
If it gets displaced, say at the driver end, it gets grounded. No hazard, (unless locked onto turbo) except it stops working.
Or perhaps open-circuit. Same difference.
Firmware could detect such a fault condition (grounded) and do the necessary. E.g. shut down.
Every time the cell is replaced/recharged this connection is re-made. So it has to be ultimately reliable. And the arrangement sturdy (not thin-walled pieces relying on delicate tolerances, particularly pressing against a few microns of plating on a driver PCB).
Thatās as I understand it. I could be completely wrong, and look forward to seeing how it turns out. This is certainly not an obvious way to make such a thing. My interest is just to see how far this goes, and how well it eventually works.
If delivered successfully it will definitely be unique, and well worth the āinvestmentā.
Crack on.