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And like y’all, they bumped me to $30 credit. I spent another $41 to capitalize on it. :slight_smile:

How was y’alls experience with LightsCastle? Smooth, fairly normal or not so good? It took me multiple multiple efforts to get through the checkout. I would come back and try again, come back in another browser, on and on til I finally managed to get through. Some 7 attempts in all. Someone else I know said their visit was the worst online shopping experience they’d ever had!

Do they have some bugs in the system or what?

Now I’ll wait and see how long it takes everything to get here and if everything I ordered actually makes it. 7 items 6 different ones. Including a Tank007 E06 and a bright Red Sipik 68 for Daniel, he loves red as much as he loves lights. (He’ll be 6 later this month) The rest of the order was basically different lasers for RBD to play with. :slight_smile: I REALLY want to see that raygun finished and aiming a laser before blasting light! :wink: We all, I think, want to have our go with Barbarella saving the world with the Universe’s most powerful weapon at our disposal. lol

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Thanks OL, and you all for the wonderful builds and great write-ups.

I finally managed to start my own build, not for the competition anymore unfortunately, but then just for the fun of it:

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From IO I ordered:

4 XP-E2s

2 Nichia

1 Artic Silver 5

1 XP-G2 Q2 7C4 (90+ CRI)

Arrived really fast and nicely packed as usual.

Lightscastle... Hmm, where to begin. Gift got bumped up to 30$.. Goodie! :party: Used a lot of time placing the order. Tested various browsers, cell phone, etc etc.. I managed to place an order eventually using the gift card. Maybe it was due to they fixing the site, or I just had luck eventually.

My order was officially this:

http://www.lightscastle.com/product/530016

http://www.lightscastle.com/product/110277

http://www.lightscastle.com/product/530030

http://www.lightscastle.com/product/530012

The content took forever to ship. I then contacted them why its not shopped. (At this point at had recieved the package from IO, and also a Roche F8 host from Fancyflashlights that I ordered at the same time) My package was not shipped due to the UF F8 light was out of stock (They fixed that info on their webpage). I then had to find another light. Due to potential taxes and stuff I had to split my order.

I kept this driver:

http://www.lightscastle.com/product/530016

And changed to this flashlight:

http://www.lightscastle.com/product/fandyfire-k2-cree-xm-l-u2-800lm-5-mode-flashlight-black1x-18650-26650-130059

I know, that light is cheaper from FT. Not sure if I should dare to ask for they to pricematch, but I did. They did not pricematch...

I paid in some extra $ with paypal two days ago, but have not heard anything more... Ill probably contact them again and hear if my stuff is shipped, or shipped soon. My order is not marked as packed/shipped, and it still shows the items from when I first placed my order.

Customer service usually answered within 24h (until now) and was friendly. Hopefully things will go fast soon, and Ill get my stuff within few weeks.

Ill report back on the driver to you guys once I have tested it, and Ill mod the K2 even if it gives me a fight. Thanks to Relic38s review, I knew it was not that mod-friendly before ordering. But I really wanted one.. :)

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From IS I added a few dollars for 1 ea. XP-E2, 90+ CRI flavors of XM-L2, and XP-G2. Also added a couple of reverse clicky switches, and a few misc. MCPCB’s. Now to figure out a way to use them in a build or mod :slight_smile: .

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looking forward to hearing about the 90+CRI LEDs…

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Only just seen this thread. Some very impressive workmanship :bigsmile:

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I received my LightsCastle order pretty quick, but can’t comment on the web-ordering experience, as I placed the order via PM here.

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Old lumens, how did you imbed that count down clock into the OP?

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Good thx for sharing

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Bump for inspiration