Buying from China isn’t for the impatient, plain and simple. If you don’t mind waiting, you’ll usually get a really nice product at an unbelievable price. And you’ll even find a few places that offer very good customer service given the circumstances, and Neal is one of the best of them.
Please feel free to state the facts here about whatever problems you’re running into with the FW3A. But please limit it to the facts, state your case (once), and leave it at that. And please avoid fighting and arguing at all costs. Thanks in advance.
It’s to bad more people, instead of just being interested in a good deal & deep discount; do not thoroughly read the OP & pay special attention to the parts such as I have quoted below.
“A word of warning for BLF specials:
The BLF part is done by BLFers who do it in their spare time, despite they may seem professionals and the work they do is at professional level, BLF is not our full time job. So give us a break and relax if thing are not going as fast as you want.
Nothing is sure so expect waiting:
- Waiting for news and updates.
- Waiting for the project to come to fruition.
- Waiting till the result can finally be ordered.
And then waiting for arrival at your home, shipping from China can take a long time.
So relax, enjoy the many other facets of BLF while you wait and remember: It is done when it is done”
Just to be clear, I never said I “emailed”. I said I “sent PM’s here on BLF”. That is most likely the difference in our experiences this morning. I got a timely response.
Yes they are. And you can be 100% positive if Neal offers a Full Refund…. you will get it.
Not yet, but I’ll be sure to measure it if I ever have a SST-20 version.
It sounds like people can still get the original optic though, if they’re willing to wait a few weeks for parts. Or for SST-20 it may be desirable to use the 10507 optic intead, to maximize throw.
TK, Beautiful colors! First post here. BTW, I ordered two lights recently and tried to contact Neal without much luck Thankfully, reading the posting above, I sent a pm from here as suggested and minutes later he got my questions answered. It is a different contact system but was easy once I took time to read here. Looking forward to learning great things and burning fingers.
The purple FW3A sample looks really good. I’m not quite sure what to call it.
Just for the fun of it, I grabbed the hex codes for most of the shades of purple listed on Wikipedia and put them beside the sample.
As far as that specific picture with it’s specific lighting and camera goes, palatinate looks quite a good match. Though HTML/CSS purple (“patriarch”) isn’t that far either.
P.S. That Convoy purple though, I don’t think I’ve seen it before. At first glance it looked a lot like web Indigo (4B0082) but after looking at it for a while it’s not quite that. Neat nevertheless.
Isn’t the SST-20 version a quad rather than tri-emitter version? If so, presumably it would need a different optic. How is it impacted by the Lumintop-Carclo situation?
Yep, like you said; Palatinate is a pretty good match. HTML/CSS purple (“patriarch”) is close, as is Byzantium to my eye.
Even Mardi Gras is semi-close.
Great pic for color comparison…. thanks for posting it.
I allways wanted to be able to turn off memory on FW3A ands start in fixed level of brightness. Now I see that new Emisar D4 does have this feature. Does this means I can upgrade firmware on FW3A and get that feature? Which firmware do I need? Thanks.
