Your acting very entitled, like the world owes you something. I wish you would stop and realize that this is a group effort and Lumintop is the one investing tens of thousands of dollars to get this project into mass production.
Iām acting like, but not considering itā¦to a point that you have no idea.
NB : Lumintop would have spare some money before making and sending the proto4 just by using a ruler.
I have curiosity based, but ultimately meaningless question, for those whose guesses are better educated than mine; how much do you think this light will sell for, retail, after the group buy has been fulfilled?
It has been an interesting and exciting day, but we should perhaps step away and cool off for a while now that Bunnygate has been resolved. It sounds like people will probably be able to get a smooth tail or a bunny tail, depending on whether they order as part of the group buy or wait until afterward.
The only other news I have is that Neal is still looking for a good tint bin for SST-20. The FB4 J5 bin is in stock but it doesnāt look very good, so heās still looking for something with lower duv (higher duv = more green, lower duv = more red). Ideally itād be FA1, FA4, FD1, or FD4 in a J4 chromacity binā¦ but that may be impossible to get. Hopefully it could at least be FA or FD something though, instead of a FB or FC bin.
Hereās the image I sent to communicate which bins are desired:
Crazy I tell ya, crazy. Itās out of control. My uncle saved his whole life to buy a Ferrari. Them Italian idiots put, FERRARI, right there on the back of it so everyone could see it. Can you imagine? Why would they want anyone to know who made it? Itās almost like they wanted other people to buy one. I donāt know what they were thinking.
I was not involved in this project (just to make sure). And I was not around suggesting to change things.
In the past 23 months things have changed. Some of it took a left turn and some things took a right turn.
As the situation is now I am pretty sure that I will be smiling all the way to the PayPal login page
I am not quoting Winston Churchillās āNever was so much owed ā¦ ā but still: Thank You FW3A Team.
I would still buy this, but in the same way I still bought my BLF SS/CU X6/X5 set after a non planned logo was slapped into the lights at the very last second before it got into production, with the justification that āthis person worked very hard to make this happen, and nobody is forcing you to buy it anywaysā.
After a couple years I sold my (at the time) very sought after BLF X6 X5 set because there was not attachment to it, which Iām sure wouldnāt have happened if they hadnāt carried a self-pride logo, that is otherwise pretty much meaningless for me. Not a butthurt rant, just my personal opinion, or maybe even a fact.
Lumintop is proud to produce these lights, and they will receive the recognition nonetheless from the thousands of owners, with or without their logo slapped to it. But speaking as someone who has followed this project since day 1 I would much rather prefer it naked, more custom-like. If lumintop decides to go with the logo Iāll have to stock up some sand paper ranging from 200-1000 grit.
Despite some claims from various sellers, for below BBL tint for 2700K, 3500K and 4000K SST-20 leds (I measured quite a few now), I have seen for each colour temperature resp. the same tint every time, for 3500K and 4000K slightly above the BBL, 2700K on/slightly below the BBL. So I wonder if Luminus actually produces anything different, and would be surprised if Neal comes up with a different tint.
I have some 3000K from Hank which turned out to be HB4 (above BBL). I also have some from KD which were listed as HD2 (below BBL). HB4 is yellow, HD2 slightly less so but still yellow none the less despite supposedly being below BBL.
I just found this thread. I smiled when I read the part in the opening thread about No Logo. It was the tipping point when I decided I wanted one. I HATE my life being used as someone elseās billboard, so I avoid logos whenever possible. Then I see in recent posts they put a bunny on the button. It looks good as far as logos go, but now I donāt want one. I have enough flashlights anyway, Iāll live without it.