Sorry if I sound a little ignorant, but I’ve been on hiatus from BLF. Imagine my shock when I saw the thread, Giggle Monster? Are we getting the dedome Giggle Monster or dome version? I think I prefer the dedome version.
Good testing, this is why I use 3500ma cells for most of my lights.
Also goes to show how much of the initial drop in output is heat related and how much is voltage drop. The first 30 seconds is where the heat path gets thermally saturated, I am surprised how close the numebrs are at that point.
They will be coming with the dome on at this point, I do not trust them to slice the dome in bulk right now. It is possible they might offer some with a sliced dome later but I would not hold your breath.
In other news I just got word that the Neutral white GT70 will be ready soon along with the conversion kits.
The final Neutral while LED will be a 5000k XHP70B-3C-P2 led as it was basically the only thing available right now without an 8-12 week wait for a special production run and a minium order of 3500 pieces. The 4000k they actually wanted to do but it seems the supplier sold out of them in the last few weeks and they are no longer available :person_facepalming:
No exact time frame yet but from past experience I would say the time frame in the OP should hold, sometime in the next ~2 weeks they should go live on the lumintop website and ship a week or so later.
At which point a new wave of emails will be sent out to everyone with a (most likely) new code.
Sony VTC6 is considered a high drain cell so it is good. The 35E has more capacity in exchange for less amperage output. Still, when you use 8 of them you don’t see such a large difference in output. If you only use 4 x 35E cells you would get a bigger drop in output.
I would not solder magnets. They have high resistance. It’s better to just blob the solder. I bought some brass buttons that are 2mm tall and 5mm wide. I might try to solder them on instead of a solder blob.
The mcpcb is not available seperate. Only as part of the conversion kit.
Maybe much later but I would not count on it unless they get stuck with a bunch of hosts they can’t sell for some reason. They already ordered enough LED’s for the hosts they have in stock.
So for now it would seem that swapping the LED yourself is the best option.
Yeah, find a cheap light and upgrade the LED in that to start with, it is not that hard but better to ruin a cheap $2 XP-G3 or similar LED over a $15 XHP70.2