they dont carry drivers
im going to be ordering drivers from cdiweb.com

looks like email money transfers work well using your online banking account
i dont seem to get charged and neither does the sender so please use this rather than paypal.

good news and bad news!
good news:
They are giving us a good deal on blues and neutral whites which I posted on first page

Bad news:
They will be shipping UPS

So, that means im going to get dinged with a brokerage fee but split between all of us it shouldn't matter too much.

btw feel free to invite your friends to this group buy. Someone extend an invitation to our bcquaria freshwater buddies.

leds
 

i'll see you tomorrow at j&l between 5:30&6

Call UPS and signup with them as your broker and it should reduce the cost. Or find a good broker and notify UPS that way you'll pay less.

Or ship to Hagen's of Blaine.

sounds good, see you there.

if i ship to hagen of blaine wont i have to pay some taxes or something for buying goods in the US and driving across??

nevermind, looks like I dont have to pay any duty
http://betterdollar.com/?s=light+emitting+diode

ok peeps, we need to vote on this delivery stuff
if i go UPS ground and go to Blaine to pickup the package, its going to be about 2% extra of the total charges and we wont get the LEDs until after Christmas Dec 26th.

If i go UPS world wide saver we will get it around the 16-17th and its about 4% extra of the total charges.

Jaws and I would be taking the biggest hit at about $40-50 on each of us if we go the fast route (which I dont mind since i dont have to drive to the US and im still saving a bunch on the LEDs). I can try chatting up the LED lady and see if I can get her to drop the price by 4% but i dont think it will happen.

Fast route cost:
Milad $39.96
Ferret $8.18
ScubaSteve $1.28
Monocus $3.30
Jaws $48.04
elias $16.52
nlreefguy $2.05
mseepman $30.66

Slow route cost:
Milad $19.98
Ferret $4.09
ScubaSteve $0.64
Monocus $1.65
Jaws $24.02
elias $8.26
nlreefguy $1.02
mseepman $15.33

i will take the fast route.
Milad try to find out for me if the MCE led comes on a pcb

thanx

i emailed her already should know by tomorrow.

btw fast route is calculated at 11lb 1foot square box. I wouldnt think LEDs would get any heavier... right?

4lb box was almost half the price.

I'm okay either way...I'm not building the fixture quite yet so I don't need them quickly but I'd love to see some of the other fixtures get started sooner.

i'd also prefer the fast route - the sooner the better!

MCE for $12 are on stars.

alright! we are going to go with the FAST method of shipping!! so you will probably see some LEDs over christmas! who needs to spend time with family when you can build an LED fixture?

two more days until we close the group buy! some people still need to send me some $$!

alrighty, almost everyone has paid me, if i get the rest of the payments by Friday ill make the order Friday afternoon so it ships out Monday morning.

let me know if the first thread looks incorrect to anyone.

I'm working on my funding (selling my new phoenix bulbs,

hope to have it all ready by the end of tomorrow to place my order

Kevin

we dont let people into the group buy that take all the phat corals from reefer Robs tank tear down before i can snatch them up!!!

sure more the merrier, how many are you thinking?

locking at 70 to 120, depends a bit, my wife kills me if I take it out of the acount after my buy from Rob, so I have to sell what i have laying around before I'm alowd to buy

a bulb is a bulb, and if it is a MH ore LED, the mony spend was for light, so if I can get rid of the MH, I can go LED.

I have one unit already build, and that turnd out better than I expected.

as I still run 2x 250 and 2x 150 biside the LED, I slowly want to move the MG and go LED


I have the heat sinks already (as I was planning to go LED,

only the driver part I still need, and your plan for going with 2 big once I like

in that case I take the driver from my 28 LED's I'm running now to only drive 28 blue once, for mornings and evenings.

ahh

sorry from the corals from Rob, the day he was TOTM I mailed him to tell me when he would take things down.

boy am I happpy I did, thy are BIGG and realy nice

anyone in for a laguna 2900, this would round things off for me !!!

oh my goodness...found this on the last day...

Am I the only one interested from Ontario?

Is it too late to join in on the group order?

you can still join but i need your #s and payment really quickly

I will get back to you asap.

Hey Milad, I'm fortunately goin to have to cancel my part of the order. My work just told be that they aren't going to reimburse me for over $1k they owe me for three more weeks... Which times out really well with, you know, christmas shopping and having to book a flight out of Vancouver. I'm unfortunately going to have to save my moneys until they pull their s**t together and pay me back. Please let me know when you see this.

NP scuba, ill update the list
Maybe in the new year ill do another one if my build goes really well because I started thinking of lighting up my house with these, lol!

thread numbers updated with a new addition from GTA!

if its not too late, i'll go for
XP-E Royal Blue: 22,
XP-G Cool White: 14,
40 degree optics

36 40lens?

i have a 65g its 36x18x24
would the 60Lens be better?

its a toss up, it depends on how high you hang it
higher, then smaller the optic

ok got bad news! sorry!
I just talked to the lady to make sure she is ok with our order since its almost 1000 leds and she said its fine. but then i asked her how long it takes for them to be ready and she said the size of the order to mount on stars takes a couple days! doh

so sorry for everyone that was hoping to get them before the 17th, ill try to get her to speed up the star mounting process. im going to push to get them to everyone before Christmas.

group buy is closed, collecting money from the last couple people and order will go out soon.

Order is out, LEDs are in the process of getting mounted to stars.

FYI anyone that missed the LED group buy ill be doing another group buy mainly because of all the interest I got and also I think im going to start LEDing all kinds of stuff up and my company got interested because we are redoing buildings with LEDs.

So i created a website www.ledgroupbuy.com

ill probably do another one early January that ends late January.

I dont want to be a downer but if they ship ordinary ground UPS you will most likely get a large brokerage\customs clearance fee. Basically the fee for doing the paper work on duty and/or taxes (taxes you will also pay).

here is the fee schedule

http://www.ups.com/content/ca/en/shi...clearance.html

I hope Im wrong...but Im almost %100 on this one.....been stung a few times.

$%&^$%&$%^$^&$^%!@#$^($^&#$%^@^ i wish i saw this before now lol

cool....Im going to be looking to build a fixture soon I think and your group buy prices are good.

Are people having good success with just using the 2 types of LED...I thought a lot of people were using 2 types of blue. Where can I find the spectrum on these?

spectrums are on the spec sheet on the www.ledgroupbuy.com link

these two colors are proven to work, some people do add blue and neutral white but the norm is cool white plus royal blue to make the colors really pop

as far as UPS goes, yes ill get charged brokerage fee but im doing their fast delivery which they cover brokerage costs. LEDs are on the no duty/tax list from what ive read.

My order works out around $5.40 per led with 60 degree optics. That is a pretty damn good price if you ask me. Typically, they're in the $7 range with optics. The money I saved will go to my other parts.

Milad, when do you plan on purchasing your drivers? Does the company you plan on buying from sell meanwell's ELN-60-48D dimmable drivers?

Any news on this order?

Sorry I havent been updating. There is a family emergency I'm dealing with. But I spoke to the vendor yesterday and she said it's most likely being shipped to me Monday. Star mounting took a few days extra because of the volume.