Hello guys,
I just wanted to give everyone an update on everything.
I just spoke with Dale and all shipments from the group buy of the MT09R have been completed. It will still take a couple of days for them to get to the airport in Hong Kong and loaded and shipped out to each of the countries they are being shipped to.
I also have an update on the MT09R 35 High. Apparently, there were a handful of samples (literally 5 I think to be more precise) that ended up with a driver that was not driving the emitters hard enough to achieve the 7500 lumen output that we got from the original testing.
Here is the good news… All of these were caught and only 1 or 2 of them were sent out as samples only and not for sale. The quality control team in the factory did exactly what they should have and caught the issue and new drivers were ordered right away.
This means that none of the lights shipped out in the group buy or being shipped out to me to sell retail will have that driver. The new drivers all arrived in plenty of time and were installed in the lights before it was time for them to ship.
Some of you may remember that I said that myself and Dale at the factory in China have put into place many new quality control policies to help make sure that problems and issues do not leave the factory and that they are corrected immediately.
I am very proud and happy to say that these new policies worked just exactly as they were supposed to.
Please do not worry, Dale and I talked about this a long while tonight and installation of the drivers were stopped the moment that the issue was found and none of the lights that have been shipped out will have that driver, they will all have a driver that does push the 35 high version to the 7500 lumen output as stated by the company.
Another little item I can only tell you about for not as I have not got all of the details and they are not in production just yet is an extended battery tube for the MT09R and I think a few of the other 4 cell lights.
This extended tube will double the capacity of the 4 cell units to 8 cell units. Yes this means it will double the run time.
Please just give me some time to get all the information for the extended tube before asking questions as I will not have answers yet.
I also told everyone that things at Haikelite are changing and the results are already showing by catching issues before any of our products make it to you, our favorite people.
The SC26 sales are going very well and I thank our U.S. customers for that. There is still plenty of time and, the prototype I hope will be here one day next week and I can give you all a better look at the little fatty.
Dale is also working on sourcing some 26350 cells that we want to add to the store here in the U.S. Sometimes these are not always very easy to find here in the U.S. but, if all goes well I will be offering them soon.
I will also very soon be offering the Sony VT6 cell as well. I have a bit of paperwork that must be completed in order to ship them, but I should have that completed by the time that my shipments of them start to arrive.
There has been a sharp price increase on them over the last few weeks and we want to keep the price as low as possible. It is expected that sometime after the Holiday that the price will come back down to a more fair and reasonable price.
Okay… I have had almost no sleep in the last 48 hours, so I am going to hit the rack for a few hours.
Thank you all for your orders and for supporting the brand Haikelite.
