Thanks. This is what I was thinking. I am not trust the free air/surface mail shipping methods it lost two of my orders. Thanks to FT customer service I got my money refunded but I will not do that again. Buy combining the orders, at least I can save some shipping fee, even thought the saving may be less than $1 .
But the pictures shows an HI & the die colour looks 1A.
Maybe they are V5’s, cree sometimes do release flux bins outside the initial specs, like the XM-L2 U4 and the XP-G2 S4.
But i also ask fasttech to double check if they really are XP-L Hi V5, because they haven’t been seen before on the market so we are a bit suspicious on if they really are what you list them as.
Now I saw it.
I bought two XP-L V5 from them once and one of them only give 80% of brightness then the other. The better one is not as bright as XM-L2 U3 (~5% less from my measurement). I am now really concern about their providers’ product quality control. This is the same reason you raised. They are not as technically savvy as you said, so their supplier may take advantage of them.
To FT’s credit, they refunded me the weak one anyway.
And if they really are V5 and V4, they will probably sell quite well, because so far the highest on the market has been V3 and those are mostly sold out and what is available has been V2 mostly.
Yes. We will restock it again and are now working on it. Meanwhile, there are other Convoy C8 in our shop you may also interested in: https://www.fasttech.com/search?Convoy%20C8
Will update you once we get the COnvoy C8 ( SMO reflector) host back