I have been Banned from buying anything until after Christmas by my Wife.
She claims that I am to hard to buy for…………………
But I did get a call from her while she was at Lowe’s asking for the details on the light.
She did pick up 2 for me and they had the XP-G2 emitter.
So now the wait begins for Christmas, much like ordering a light from China
I am posting to say that I went to Lowes today, got the light. It is different. The driver is different, and the driver retaining ring does not unscrew; it is a press fit job (that I managed to mangle trying to “unscrew”)
When I revisited my store this morning, I finally located the original display of these lights. Remember up until now they came thru with an XP-G. This new deal has the XP-G2. Here is a pic of both versions and the bar codes on each package is identical. That means both will ring up at 12.97, but what we all want is the newer XP-G2. Just make sure the one you grab is the right one.
I did stop at Lowe’s today and near the checkout cash registers they had the older XP-G lights for the higher price but on the big display with the signs that say Christmas Gifts For Under $…. they had the newer XP-G2 lights for the lower price.
So you have to look before you buy with both being available.
My local Lowes only had out the XP-G (which I bought one of) version till yesterday when they put out a display of 50 of the XP-G2’s of which I promptly bought 4 and will be returning the XP-G version.