I have a question about the donation to the team. I wanted to make a donation, but with the payment for the BLF GT I only made an 1 Dollar donation. The reason is that I don’t want to pay customs duty for the donation. So I want to wait until the BLF GT is here and after that I like to do an additional donation. How to do that?
Just got a notification as well with expected delivery this Friday. Hoping for a fun weekend filled with giggles Can’t say enough thanks to the whole team, you are all amazing!
Looks like a couple of others beat me to it, but I’m also in the first group, US address WITH cells and I just got my shipment text from DHL. My GT is on the way!
The communication has actually been pretty good for china overall. Lumintop has kept us in the loop better then most. China simply doesn’t put a lot of emphasis on communication with the US during things like this as a rule. I have dealt with FAR FAR worse. I mean Thorfire with the Q8 was way worse then this.
You have to remember there is the language barrier for one thing, so almost everything has to be filtered through Neal for translation, this adds a delay. Also it has been the holidays, so things are crawling along anyways, add to that Neals Wedding less then 2 weeks ago and you have what we have been working with.
No one is to blame, just a lot to do and not enough man hours to do it all.
Far as the difference in voltage between the carriers, that is simply the resistance between the carriers, most likely the higher voltage carrier was the one near the tailcap. If you let them rest for a little while before testing they would balance back out so that the total voltage in each carrier was the same.
Plus even a .1V difference in voltage is not something to worry about with how we are using the cells, they will get rebalanced when you recharge them anyways. All that matters is that a cell doesn’t drop below ~2.5V and damage the cell, you would need around a .5V unbalance for that to happen seeing as the LVP kicks in around 3V. That would also only happen if the cells were seriously mismatched.
With 30Q in 1 carrier and laptop pulls in the other they generally don’t get more then .1V out of balance, perfectly fine since we are not charging them in series. If I let them rest they will be matched again. For example they sat all night after using it last night and I just tested the carriers at 16.09 and 16.10V respectively, that is as perfectly matched as you will get.
USA orders with batteries seem to be shipping right now. Notifications are showing up.
It appears that the first shipment went out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid for cost reasons. Initial quality has been fantastic.
The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 23. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 576th person on the paid list that did not include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th. DHL shipping was very fast.
There should be a European order going out soon.
The next group to purchase lights (#1040 and up on the list) will get their emails mid January instead of early January in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.
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M4D M4X: You can buy 8 of the button top Samsung 35E batteries (seem ideal, high mAh and good amps) for $40 when you buy your GT. No sign up required for these. Battery details are here.
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Starting to feel optimistic that I might get my notification soon, was 36 on the list and paid immediately after receiving the PM… Fingers crossed! :innocent:
17 here, I got in very early. If they’re going in order down the list you should be any time. I think that’s probably unlikely though, especially given that my text came from DHL, not Neal. So even if Neal is actually packing them in order there’s no guarantee DHL goes through them in the same way. It’s coming though, I’m sure.
Neal is still going down the paid list as far as shipping is concerned. Usa orders with no batteries after the 576 person to pay did not get shipped. So it was everyone before that.
If Neal is doing another pallet order to Usa with batteries, then I’m sure he is starting at the first person who paid and then filling it up as he goes along the paid list.
As more people get notifications we will figure out the logic.
Can’t say enough thanks to the whole team, you are all amazing!
