well dale. you completely missed my remark that VN was just used as an example. a guy who works hard and gets things done quickly. it seems if I don’t agree with you that you will go for my throat. go for it. I am not allowed to express my thoughts, but you can. peace……
at least jack-bbk has a grip of reality. he is saying the exact same thing I said in different words. they can respond quick *if they want to…… I am done talking about this… I hope you get your lights by Christmas. lol
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no one forcing you to buy in this GB. if youre impatient, you are free to leave. but see you again in other group buy i know you will still participate [in some of them].
but if you can start GB for Vinh, which I completely salute for his mod, then please count me in. less than 50$ ok. i might buy 1 CW and 1 NW if less than 30$.
cheers!
… The second mouse gets the cheese.
I can totally understand why bladesmith is upset. Fortunately I don't really care much about this light, so I just let this project crawl forward on a snail pace.
If you are really lookingforward to the light, then I understand its extremely long waiting makes you upset.
I agree with him as well on the point that they could had made that thing overnight if they had to.
Just lower your expectations, and don't care to much about this light.. it's just a flashlight! There are more important things to wait for, and look forward to.
Going to my shelter now ;)
Dude, I didn’t “go for the throat” as you put it, just tried to clarify that maybe you were expecting too much from a cooperative aspect with China.
I was typing my response when you said that about examples, that’s the odd thing about communications on the web… timing and expressions get mixed up and completely discombobulated more often than not.
It’s all good, but honestly man if you feel that strongly about this one just buy the A6 and stick a new driver and emitter in it. I promise you won’t feel bad for the price, because it’s a little rocket!
1 more to go Dale.... 8000
Does that mean I have to do a giveaway on the Sample A6 I have? :_(
i am in!
Yes it does, but completed with full modifications and guaranteed for the shortest possible runtime!
no, because now its already 8001...
Oh, don’t worry djozz, it’s already there! And with your phosphor bronze springs in it. Bypassed of course.
I think I’ll do that, is there any way to limit the giveaway to those in this thread? (make the chances of someone waiting on this group buy to win it much greater that way)
Edit: phosphor bronze spring, bypassed, on the driver. Regular stock spring in the tail cap with a wire running through the pcb connected directly to the switch.
Not trusting my memory, I stuck it in the Lightbox with a rested LG HE-2 cell. This showed 1490.4 lumens and a tail measurement showed 6.23A. The same emitter it came with, but on a Noctigon. XP-L.
Wights board, TK’s A6 firmware, it reverses, has the hidden loop and 7 modes default with a 4 mode group optional, selected by multiple clicks on the switch til it quits responding, a pause, a blink, 4 instead of 7 with the lowest the same as mode 2 in the larger group.
I agree completely. Looks cool, but I have a lot of other lights I really like, so I can be patient. I’m actually waiting for the BLF Ti host to be made. That one I’m anxious to get!
You can use bugsy’s list as your set of numbers for Random.org if you wanted it to be just for people who are buying into this GB. 
Edit: Oh, yeah, if you do it that way, people with more than one spot on the list would have an advantage. It would be up to you whether that was your intent or not.
I created the giveaway thread HERE
The only rule is the entrant must be on the group buy list.
I’ve asked for one entry only as this keeps the numbers down and makes the odds better for a win. Multiple entries only makes it harder to win so please only post once. Be creative but please keep it clean.
It is a bit bizarre that it has taken them this long. As far as the driver goes, they were given the gerber files, pictures of a completed driver, the hex file, the C code, and a complete parts list; that's being handed everything on a silver platter folks---the PCB fab house pushes 'load' and the PCB is produced
Like you guys said, 1000 units is not even close enough to get priority at such a low price, and why should it be? They probably sold 1000 lights yesterday without having to change a thing. We're more of an annoyance, at best.
My feeling is that if they really valued this project they would have done it by now. This is not to say that they won't ever get it done, because they probably will, but you guys have got to be patient.
I’m in if you can get this done. Being a newbie I don’t have any lights like this.
Thanks!
Will the firmware be available to edit and reflash? I’m looking to get rid of moon and put strobe in the main rotation.
It's been available for some time. Check out Toykeeper's repository.