On the way to Crystal Focus V4

[BlackDOG]

Fender....don't just stand there....get the poor kid a glass of milk and shut him back up in the cabinet..

[DarthFender]

Not just Milk, warm milk. Yuck!!!!

[Darth Leximus]

Just signed up for that newsletter, I will definately be pre ordering as soon as you make that option available. I currently have 3 sabers and only one has sound (if you can call hasbro sound sound) My wife had given me strict orders not to ever buy a CF (price being the factor) then I showed her the youtube vids...end of story...her next words were "We need to get a couple of those!" She was definately floored by the capabilities of CF. So here we are anxiously awaiting more boards.

PS I feel your pain on the move Erv, I've been working on and moving into a new house for 3 mos now and I still don't have my saber shop up and running yet!

[erv]

bad news guys. Building the next batch of CF is postponed.
I called the compagny for the motion sensor and the delay of "end of june" has been moved to september.
I can't accept pre orders with such a delay, that why I called the compagny. If the delay has been maintained to what it was (last week of june) I would have opened the preorder as scheduled, mid june.
It sounds like I'll pass the summer working only in my house for modding it, create the new workshop and then be ready to start over in september.

Sorry guys, no my fault, I even ordered the PCBs and I have 130 naked ones on my tables, but parts are missing to populate them.

Erv'

[Voice]

Can we just call 'dibs', and start mailing you checks $20 at a time until we've paid for one or pre-orders are open (whichever comes first)?

[erv]

like I've explained several time I CAN'T handle things this way. That works for a punctual set of preorder with 20 persons, not for 100 or more. I have other things to do to manually count $$$ and email back each customer with a "you're in!"
No preorders until I can make sure I'll get the required part. I'm not willing to make customers waiting for months with their money gone and nothing happening. That's my vision of ethic.

[edit]
looking around, some sort of good news : the part I'm looking for is now again available directly from the manufacturer, like it was for the previous version, until version 2.63 of the board. Bad news is that it's delayed there too... until december, so I'm gladly keeping the deadline proposed by the other manufacturer.
Another possible sad news is that my parts provider is probably going to remove some of his volume discount soon. CF price might increase of 10%.
Wait and see, too early to decide anything right now
[/edit]

[Shadeslinger]

Sorry guys, no my fault, I even ordered the PCBs and I have 130 naked ones on my tables, but parts are missing to populate them.

Erv'

Heh heh, that's what you call "dry toast".

[Voice]

like I've explained several time I CAN'T handle things this way. That works for a punctual set of preorder with 20 persons, not for 100 or more. I have other things to do to manually count $$$ and email back each customer with a "you're in!"
No preorders until I can make sure I'll get the required part. I'm not willing to make customers waiting for months with their money gone and nothing happening. That's my vision of ethic.

Oops. Sorry, I missed the smiley at the end of my post.

Believe me, I understand that dealing with 1 order at a time would be an absolute nightmare of logistics. I was just joking around.

[erv]

got you(r) Voice, missing smiley, I missed the second degree humor, that I actually appreciate very much,
+ lol at the DRY toast !
Sounds like there's a Jam Traffic

Erv'

[Malaki Skywalker]

Wouldn't it just be Bread if its dry toast? LOL