First off, I only scanned the last 5 pages, I am sure I missed something, let me know if there is anything important I need to address. I am going back to work tomorrow, so I will be back to a morning check in and thats about it after that.
Wow, come on people, lets not start a 5 page fight over something so silly as the tint.
Here are the facts, that were clearly stated way back in November when production started to hopefully put this to rest.
1: We had planned on and wanted 5000k 3D LED’s in the GT from the start.
2: There were no 5000k high bin LED’s available worldwide when it came time for production.
3: one of the team member even offered to buy some LED’s from another supplier with his own money and company contacts but the best we could find was 4500k and D2 bin IIRC and it would have taken over a month and a lot of time and effort to get them to lumintop + it would have caused an increase in cost of the lights.
4: Neal found these 4000k D4 bin LED’s that were ready to go right then, so he got a sample and I tested it. It tested very well.
This left us with 3 options:
1: Wait an unknown number of months to even start production waiting for the 3D LED we wanted while people were already complaining about how long things were taking.
2: Delay things by over a month and increase the cost of the lights to get a lower bin D2 4500k LED
3: Start production immediately, keep the price unchanged and use the D4 bin 4000k LED Neal found.
Needless to say, there was not much of a choice, particularly after the 4000k tested so well on the sphere.
The fact that the 4000k works better in the real world was a bonus.
Now anyone that doesn’t like the stock LED is more then welcome to switch it out or even sell your light, there are plenty of people that will gladly buy it from you.
Lets knock off the entire argument, there is no changing things at this point and we don’t want SB to lock the thread again.
When Lumintop starts making these after the GB they might be able to get the 3D tint LED’s at that point, but last I checked they could still not get them for the 3rd batch for the GB.