I think you should detail how you plan to handle sorting and shipping these and if you have any major planned life changes coming up before you can fulfill a potential group buy.
Previous LED group buys have dragged on for months due to people changing jobs, moving, etc and/or simply went unfulfilled when the organizer couldn't deal with fulfillment or got overwhelmed sorting thousands of tiny LED's.
Also will there be any fall back plan if these come in from the manufacturer reflecting very different color characteristics then expected?
There are no anticipated issues and I'm not sure what there is to say - the order will be placed and sorted and shipped out to the GB participants based on how many they ordered and of each color. Sorting will either be in-house or at the production facility.
I do not expect this to be a very large GB (but even if so, would not anticipate significant issues in delivering) and have run GB with >1000 orders before. Additionally, I run an online store (
www.mehkee.com) that has fulfilled hundreds of orders in the 7 weeks of its existence, including LEDs (disclosed in the Google form). If you have specific questions as to what my capabilities are, please feel free to ask them. I am not the same organizer as the previous LED GBs and once we have an indication of which LEDs will hit MoQ and at what quantities - we will attain a production timeline from the manufacturer. In the past, I have had runs of 25K-40K LEDs produced in under 4 weeks.
The colors are expected to be the same as shown in the imgur album - this is the same manufacturer of those LEDs shown. I would not expect deviations from what is shown in the album.
Interested in some purple LEDs because all the purple I can find on ebay are ultra violet
400-405 nm is ultraviolet. If you're expecting something dramatically different than the ebay purples you mention, I fear you may be disappointed.
Interested in some purple LEDs because all the purple I can find on ebay are ultra violet
Correct - the wavelength indicated is technically ultra violet - however I would refer to the picture in the album for the real life representation of the LED color.
I prefer to order LEDs from a vendor directly, for the reasons Spamray mentioned. But if you found a good supplier of purple then I may have to jump on this for 200-300 of those bad boys.
Who is the manufacturer?
What sort of guarantees or certifications do we have on the wavelength tolerance?
Hi - this is the same manufacturer of the LEDs as the 2x3x4mm LEDs I sell on my website (
www.mehkee.com). As mentioned above, the wavelength technically is ultraviolet. If you have a specific wavelength you are looking for, please PM me the range and I'll try to get a sample picture from the manufacturer.
With respect to guarantee, the specs offered by the manufacturer are the ones we would expect them to produce. If the wavelength produced is unacceptable then we would ask for a refund or new production (though I would imagine the former occurring over the latter).
If you feel safer ordering from a vendor directly, please feel free to do so (though I don't understand the difference between a vendor and buying via a GB working with an LED manufacturer)! I am offering to run this because I have had many requests 1.8mm LEDs in a variety of colors, which I currently do not stock. This is a hobby and community that I enjoy working with, so I would like to run this to help people get a hold of LEDs prior to the onslaught of new builds coming out in the next several months.