Texas_Ace BLF Calibrated Lumen tube / Sphere No math skills needed - Several spheres still available

Thanks for your hard work i’m sure it will be over my expectation. Next projekt you do…… I’m in/ Micael

Thanks TA. I will cover shipping to WA and NV.,

Great work thanks TA! I will also cover cost of shipping. Just let me know how much.

Ok, just got back from the post office / UPS.

All the orders should be shipped now and I think they should all be delivered by Monday except the international orders. If anyone has any issues please let me know.

Please post your lumen results, this is the first time I have had any direct comparisons with my sphere and others, so I am very curious what the results are.

The nice thing is that since they are all calibrated the same, if it is determined that the readings are off one way or the other, we can apply a correction factor equally to everyone. I have zero attachment to the “base calibration” of my sphere being accurate to ANSI specs since I have never had a way to compare it. So if we find a better calibration I am more then happy to adjust. This is simply the best I could do with what I had.

Now to clean up the mess all of this left behind and then start back to work on the mods.

When things go this way for me—-I justify it by saying—Education is expensive—Experience is PRICELESS
But being past the middle of 50 I try to limit my Education as much as possible

In other news someone sent me an LT300 lux meter to calibrate with these spheres. I had no idea what the results would be but after calibrating it I was quite happy to see that it lined up surprisingly close to the HS1010A meters I was using.

They were within ~5% across the range of outputs and lights I tested (I had 5 “standard” lights I was using for calibration, the only regulated lights with consistent output I had + an MT03 TA special).

The LT300 did seem less effected by tint and CRI, the warmer and higher CRI tints are where I noticed the highest variance.

I am waiting to see what this person gets results wise in his own testing but I was quite happy with my choice of lux meter seeing as it was 1/10th the price. The LT300 costs more then the whole sphere, even at the new price.

lol, yes very true indeed. If I did this again I would at least know what I was getting into and could plan accordingly.

Luckily I knew to plan on some problems so I built in some padding to the price so I at least did not loose anything.

I basically ended up making slightly over minimum wage for my time and not much profit on anything else all said and done with my not yet complete math.

So not something I regret but not something I would do the same way again for the same price.

I have a few ideas to possibly make the whole thing simpler if I ever need to make more. For now I am putting the whole thing out of my head lol.

4.5 in tube shipping cost $17.

Yes. We will try to post the lumen number and battery type… so we can compare numbers.

Also be sure to clean all the contact surfaces in the driver area of the MT09/MT03 lights, I have been amazed how much this can effect output. I noticed my own MT09 had dropped almost 5k lumens and could not figure it out.

I cleaned it out real good, even removed the driver and cleaned both sides of the contact ring (be very careful if you do this) and boom, it was back to full power.

OMG, this advice is so useful. Today I was wondering why my TC20 immediately shuts off everything I click to turbo when using my Xtar protected 26650 cell. I cleaned all contact surfaces including battery with alcohol and it works perfectly again. I also tried very hard to figure out why my Emisar D4 was measuring like 25% lower lumens than before even after swapping many different batteries. I then cleaned all contact surfaces and the lumens is now just 10% less than before but batteries is probably not fully charged.

If PayPal did not send a Tracking Number, can it just be assumed it is a glitch in the system or the system is running behind/not updated??

Just curious… Nothing more. :wink:

I agree… it’s good practice to clean the contact surfaces. I even clean the threads with alcohol and grease it…

It depends on a few factors. The ones I shipped using the built in paypal shipping system should automatically get a tracking number.

The ones I did manually (those sent as gifts or the ones that went UPS) I am not so sure about. I assumed they would send an email to the address I put into the information but I am not sure if they actually do.

It is kind of hard to look up the manual shipments.

If anyone does not have their sphere by Tuesday, please let me know and I will track it down.

I still have about 8 available here so if I missed one I can still ship it.

No paypal tracking number, but usps says mine will be delivered tomorrow. :laughing:

I haven’t received any tracking number, but I’m not worried about it.

Thanks TA, sounds good. I was just curious. I don’t need one, like I said.

I’ll probably have mine tomorrow or Saturday either way. :wink:

The Texas Ace U-tube has arrived! :slight_smile:

Great! I figured they would start showing up today.

Congratulations… mine will arrive on the tuesday… can you post some photos?