Now up to Hong Kong Post and the Royal Fail (oops Mail). Not in the HK Post system yet - it often takes a day or two.
WSDeal seem to be having problems just now - very slow to load, and the database denies I exist. Probably be fine when someone gives the server a good kicking.
I got in before the price increase. Since they gave me a small price break at 10 or more lights, I decided to go ahead and purchase 10. Surprisingly, EMS shipping was the cheapest method of shipment. Total with shipping came to $79.70 US... or $7.97 per light. This should keep me busy with mod hosts for a good long while and allow me to toss a few to my friends... and turn those poor suckers into flashaholics! Now to see if they actually ship my order or cancel it.
Not deserve. Now I have this flashlight with XP-G R5 and remains a powerful thrower.
I soldered the LED with flat welds as possible and I cut the plastic from the wires over.
The reflector I hit a couple of strips of cello to isolate and remove the protective of the power led, with the intention that the reflector down as much as possible and put his R5.
It is still amazing what concentrated.Little change projection. The spot will have grown by 30% approx.
Those sound like great reasons to me! I didn't realize that shiningbeam charged such steep prices for shipping. I just checked and they want $2.75 to ship local in the U.S. when it shouldn't cost any more than $0.50. That, on top of a higher initial item prices than dx or kd. I do realize that they have great customer service but I'll think twice now before buying from them.
Good luck with your chip mod and let us know how it turns out. I don't have a soldering iron tip small enough for that size work. Do you plan to reflow solder the chip to the board? Your idea sounds like fun.
If the PCB has solder on the spot where the chip will be added, I've read that some people place the PCB on a skillet to preheat it on a stove, and then use a heat gun to bring the temperature up to the melting point to liquefy the solder. If you don’t have a heat gun, maybe you could use just the skillet and them carefully remove the PCB with tweezers after the solder flows. Still, if you can solder those tiny legs, that seems like the best option. However you chose, this should be interesting to see how you made out.
Make sure that your iron is a least 40watts......heat is bad for the board so less time desoldering and soldering should do it, and please make sure that you use high quality solder. I used to stack mosfets in my Mini Z's when i used to race them so please be careful with the solder flow on the board it might just go where you dont want it and crossover to another chip making a bad connection.
Thanks to xrayboy, the 10 flashlights I ordered from WSdeal have shipped. I have 8 pilot friends that are not flashaholics but are very interested. Although they will need to invest about $18 for batteries and a charger, they are willing to do this for the free flashlight I am offering them. Now the fun begins all over again.
I was beginning to wonder as I got the tracking number on Monday and no sign of it in the HKP system. It finally appeared as being processed for onwards delivery from HK today. From experience it is usually a bit over a week from when I see this till it arrives. Here's hoping anyway.