I’m not sure. I asked Neal, and he’s still figuring out the details for that.
However, he says the SST-20 version will be $30 for people in the group buy. He just hasn’t figured out when it will be available to purchase, or how exactly the process will work.
I don’t have an FW3A, but I have modded a Sipik 58 a couple times to use a very similar connection scheme for a tailcap switch.
Short answer: If the anno is damaged and there is a direct short from the inner sleeve to the exterior body tube, the effect is the same as holding the button down permanently. Meaning the light would ramp up to max ramp and stay there.
On the up side there really isn’t any reason to remove the inner sleeve. So there shouldn’t be a lot of rubbing or friction. Chances of it getting damaged and shorting assuming it works out of the box are probably pretty low.
I finally made a donation thing. The link is in my signature where it says “Patreon”.
To be clear though, it’s a donation thing for me. I don’t know how to contact a lot of the original team, so I haven’t attempted to set up a team donation system.
I have a strip of tape around the inner tube in all my earlier FW3A prototypes, because it was required to make the light reliable. However, I haven’t had any of those issues with the new production sample. It looks like the issues there were finally fixed.
I see many post thanking ToyKeeper for all her work on this and many other projects here at BLF. Awhile back someone suggested she set something up so folks could help support her work considering what her work has meant to them. Recently, after being asked about it repeatedly, she finally set up an account with Patreon where folks can show their appreciation with donations for her contributions past and future. I suspect there are probably many that don’t know about this and Im confident self promoting is one of the few things TK is not good at.
Im not sure about anyone else, but I find it easy to take all she does for granted………… unless I think about it.
Please think about it, check the link out and turn anyone else on to it that may also be interested in showing their appreciation…… Really there should be a ‘Sticky’ for this ……. Why do I feel like she is fixin to backhand me?
You can do the math & get (real) close. You can take off a bit of time for multiple orders receiving only one PM notice. The lower your number the less time you deduct.
The Math
Your list number x 95 seconds = _ seconds
seconds ÷ 3600 seconds = hours
The GROUP BUY went live at 14:00 Central time.
EDIT: Use your number on THIS NEW LIST provided by TK & you can calculate a fairly exact time your PM will come to you.
It’s not the interest list number though, since the PM list has duplicates removed. So to clear up any questions about what number people are on the PM list, I put a copy here: