Haha, you guys are funny! I used to also keep one of those tritium vials on my keychain, but not anymore. Now Iām wondering what the myths and paranoia are all about? I guess side discussions are okay if we are just waiting on updatesā¦
Sofirn is trying to make it before 11.11 which is known as double eleven deal day on aliexpress! I believe 5-6 weeks before Christmas is long enough to arrive.
Doh! I hadnāt realized that my last post on this altered my already existing request for a number of lights- I had forgotten that I already had myself put on the list. I just got so excited about these lights!
OK, so I apologize, butā¦ please put me BACK to 3 of the 5600k variants.
At 7ish lumens, 12+ hours of runtime, the durability, potted or not and the small size factor, these lights will suit me greatly for a few uses. Would be great if the GB can get more than just black for a colorā¦ But, eh, take what we can get considering.
The plan now is to build 1200 in black, 500 in red and 300 in blue, all colours half/half 3200K/5600K Yuji leds (based on my rough estimation of popularity). With the interest list (which now turns into a group buy list) close to 800 lights, even if the ratio is pretty far from correct there should be enough of each colour to get everyone the colours they want.
The trithole will be a bit smaller, the magnet hole a tiny bit wider, so everything fits better than the samples that I got. The potting I āshould not worry aboutā, well I do worry about it ever becoming right, but seeing the crash-testing results with non-working potting, I am still not worried about the robustness of the whole light in any case.
The group buy price will very probably be 6.5 dollar including clip, I have no information about the non-gb price yet. I hope shipping is included in the 6.5 dollar.
I asked about a bare version before and it received not much enthousiasm by Barry, even though I explained that it is even less work to make it than a black or coloured version.
I think it must be kept in mind for when/if a new batch is made after the first 2000 are sold out. I also still wish for a flat olive colour then, will be bugging Barry for that one too.
About colours, I understand that a limited set of standard colours, like black, red and blue, are much cheaper to have done than if the anodising facility (seems that Sofirn does not have that in-house) has to mix custom colours. So the flat olive may even be a very improbable wish.