Def not the first to pay who wanted cells in the US. You are in the 50s on the payment list and im 18. I am pretty sure there are people before me who wanted cells.
So you either were lucky or didn’t get cells. Either way. I hope it gets there soon and safely for you.
UPDATES: It appears that the first couple of shipments are going out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid for cost reasons. Initial quality has been fantastic.
The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 23. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 576th person on the paid list that did not include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th.
There should be a European order going out in January.
The next group to purchase lights (#1000 and up on the list) will get their emails mid January instead of early January in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.
I got 2 GT’s Friday, but was out of town till today. Fired up both GT’s and caught this smoker before it smoked my reflector up!
It only happened in Turbo, so I removed the head and let it run on Turbo a few cycles, and it seems to have cleared up. I guess this is the one I’m modding!
Yeah, it’s a little wet under the centering ring plate and top of the MCPCB that has a pretty good scratch across it.
Maybe let Lumintop know to clean it up a little bit…
Later I’ll reflow a XHP35HD E4-1A I de-domed I’m running the other E4-1A in a TN42 and it’s got a really nice neutral white spot, not orangey-yellow :confounded: like the stock HI.
Yep I always look for this problem, I had a few K70’s and I run in the de-domed XHP35HD’s just in case. Just put the head in a vise with plastic jaws, locked onto the flats, and just twisted the head off by hand.
It was coming from around the base of the LED. Obviously flux from the re-flow,It plumed up pretty good for a while, it would have surely smoked up the reflector!
I saw flux residue back from first factory picture of driver and DTP boards, but thought they will clean up…
Ok some alcohol on cotton stick will do the job before first run…
Thanks for sharing Kawi :+1:
Coyotehawk will add you to his sign up list. You’ll see your name when he does the next update. It will be sometime mid January when you are emailed with the details of where to go and how to order.
UPDATES: It appears that the first couple of shipments are going out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid for cost reasons. Initial quality has been fantastic.
The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 23. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 576th person on the paid list that did not include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th. DHL shipping was very fast.
There should be a European order going out in January.
The next group to purchase lights (#1000 and up on the list) will get their emails mid January instead of early January in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.