There aren’t any plans for a short tube, but maybe once production gets caught up (in Feb or March?) Lumintop might consider it along with spare drivers and spare mcpcb’s. For right now they are just focused on making the lights and selling them.
Ps, everyone that has used the short tube has said it’s very unbalanced and adds strain to your wrist. This is why the long tube was chosen for production versions.
Would it be possible for Neal to post which lights got shipped before his vacation? I am moving January 3rd and the list would help me know what arrangements to make, if necessary.
Ain”t that the truth :person_facepalming:
I have been looking on the Chinese sites but have not found any suitable & am not willing to pay a quarter of the price of the GT for a lens cap.
We have a $1000 limit here in Australia before tax.
I have NEVER had a problem with the seller altering the value for me .
Never paid a cent in tax EVER.
Talk to who ever is sending it and ask for a favor.
Never had anybody say NO.
Apple, Google, Coke and about 50 other companies and most of our politicians pay NO TAX here in Australia… Why should little ol me then .
Ok, so today I stole a few minutes to install the XHP70.2 80CRI 4000k in the V2 prototype. HM440H model for anyone interested.
I LOVE THIS LED!
This LED looks SO much better then the 4000k 70CRI that was in it before. It is a lower bin and it lost some output but not as much as I would have thought. Still easily as bright as an XHP70 except without as much of a dark spot and with 80cri.
I tried a few different sized centering rings. Throw readings showed a peak of ~440kcd (vs ~450kcd for the 70cri) with a 2mm centering ring.
Although I am going to print up a new centering ring that is ~4mm tall since manual focusing shows that around there throw only drops to ~430kcd yet the dark spot virtually disappears. WELL worth the trade off.
So what do I end up with?
A ~6000 lumen (possibly more since the throw readings are so close to the 70CRI @ 7000 lumens) 80CRI 4000k 1300m+ throw GT with corona tint shift hardly worse then the stock XHP35.
This light will be keeping this setup for sure, it is fantastic! I would never have guessed that the 80cri version would have this kind of improvement in the tint shift issues. I still don’t know why but it has very little tint shift (not perfect but only slightly worse then the XHP35 that comes stock once focused).
I expect that slicing the dome would have similar results to the 70CRI version with ~1600m+ of throw but I am not willing to risk another $10 LED to find out right now, maybe if I get board or feel lucky later.
Or if someone wants to donate an LED to the cause I can put it on the sphere to test the output and try slicing the dome to see those results as well.