Apparently it was a part issue, maybe that means one of their suppliers had trouble with yield and couldn’t produce enough.
FWIW Illumn is showing them as “backordered” still, so maybe there’s hope.
They said:
I’d like to see some of the components become available. It would be fun to play around with different optical designs, and see what’s possible.
Just ordered my 3rd one
Good idea ! :+1:
I have been sitting on this fence with this one, I see that this light has brought excitement to many people. My excuse is that I have the very exciting K75. I searched your posts to see what you have to say about this epic thrower, but I no find. Please tell us how much you love this light and why.
BTW, K40 3 Km and K40 6 Km are in the buzz mill.
I think it’s kind of a Catch-22. I think LEP lights have to get more popular for the price to come down, and I think the price has to come down for them to get more popular. I am hopeful that it will happen eventually though.
1st one I pulled apart to see how it worked and modified the driver. 2nd i got because Ithe first didnt go back together properly. 3rd one I want the the light engine out of it. I like big lights although the w30 is small it throws like the big ligjts.
Beam shot comparison W30 beam is the lower left. The 2 fat beams are a GT, K75 and the other 2 are scratch build aspherics. The middle light throws the furthest it is just pointing away from the others.
I just got the W10 gen II and I like it way better anyways. Actually can use the light for shining deer and such, plus it fits right in my pocket. Now the W30 just sits, maybe will use it in upcoming vids I guess. Or sell on ebay.
Thinking I should get a w10 just to play with
w40 w50 
I wonder if they would work with a knife edge
W40 W50???
i hope acebeam have them ready to be shown on the IWA
W50 is probably the same laser module but with an aspheric lens as wide as a BLF GT head. :disappointed:
Might mount a 100mm PCX in W30 to see how it goes
I'll take W50, and the X65GT, too.
Group buy for the W40 or W50 maybe? 
acebeam does not like such "publicity"
but I had deals for most of their products ;)
I dont normally hack lights up but was quickest and easiest way to do it. I will try some other configurations later.
Stock W30 left
Bring on the new versions