Hello Team Kronos,
I have just recieved my 5th & 6th lights. Considering I was “late to the party” when I joined the lists, and yet every light has been flawless. No shipping damage or malfunctioning parts. The software works perfect and I have been able to setup each light the way I want. I am very thankful for all the effort that went into this light. I love the lighted tailcap, but am looking forward to trying a couple of things to vary the intensity-the amount of “locator” light is much different in my bedroom at night as opposed to camping in the Sierra Nevada’s in Kennedy Meadows.
I came into this group buy realizing that the goals for these lights were quite lofty and I expected there might be problems in a number of areas. Because of this, I expected there may be multiple “fixes” required. To my surprise, on my lights, things are awesome. I also have been buying and dealing with companies in China for around 3 years and have a fairly good idea what to expect. On all of my orders, I spend $2-3.00 to buy the insurance, tracking and one level above free shipping-in my experience of several hundred orders, I have had problems 3 times, and those were resolved fairly easily. I can understand the dissapointment when receiving a product that is scratched or broken or missing something. My little speech is not intended to make light of anyone else’s problems, I just wanted to sincerely thank everyone on the team for an amazing set of lights. I am new to BLF, but not to forums or lights. These lights are so amazing! I have some excellent custom lights and a fair amount of lights from multiple manufacturers. None has all of the features, or capabilities of these lights. The copper X5 is by far my favorite, yet I have many uses for the aluminum lights and being able to program them for their specific uses. Thank you BLF, Team Kronos and anyone I may have missed. As a result of the awesomeness of these lights I have also ordered two other BLF lights.
The group buy was open for months and months during which anyone could have ordered as many lights as they wanted (or could afford). Kronos posted several times asking people to buy more. It’s the people who ordered multiple lights that helped to make the minimum amount of orders needed and who in the final weeks helped to get it up to 400.