[PART 1] Official BLF GT Group Buy thread. Group buy officially closed! Lights shipping.

Nice work Jerommel ! These are all really sweet.

Nice pics Jerommel, I like the one on the right the most. Albeit you put a lot of effort in it I have to confess I like Fritz 15 light more. But as you say, yours will be easier to manufacture, less milling.

Maybe i do too. :slight_smile:
I do think though he should swap the finned part with the ring part of the ‘light engine’.
Should be simple to do i.m.o.

5ar, your renderings are awesome. :+1:

Here is my design.
All pictures are clickable.



- Shoulder strap connections on head and battery tube

- Tripod mount at exact the Center of Mass (Center of mass is the black and white mark in the pictures)

- Side switch (IMO there is no reason for tailswitch, but can be made)

- Imaging the battery tube with full knurling

- I left some room above the battery carrier because there are no battery springs, the room should make up for that

- There is a pocket especially for the led (26mm diameter)

- Driver pocket (45mm diameter in this design)

- Head consists of 2 parts for easy modding, light can be used as a candle without top part

  • Good thermal characteristics

5ar you can use this picture to photoshop it next to fritz and your light for comparison.

wauw, I cannot choose so leave the voting for now :wink:
And well I slipped in a little design of my own :smiley:

POLL for basic design overview.

Potato powerrrrrr……! :smiley:

I think you’ll need a whole lot of potato’s to power up the XHP35 at 2.5 A. :smiley:

yeah I am very proud of making such a “different” design :smiley:

Too late to say I’m interested in one of these? Looks awesome, no matter which design we go with.

As long as you vote for design 2 you can still get in :wink:

P.S. Or any other design actually but design 2 is what this light should look like….lol

Unlike Miller I have no issues at all with voicing my opinion on the matter, not like anyone doubts it for a moment anyways.

Design 2 power! :sunglasses:

Lol
Yes will update list later
Just choose what you like most but it will not be the potato :wink:

Every designer, and especially potato-power (LOL), have done an amazing job!!! BRAVO!! :smiley:

When will the poll be closed?

I am heartbroken, that was my backup plan, it would be the ultimate survival light, once the light died you could eat it!

Also, just because I am firmly in favor of Design 2. I don’t want anyone to think I have anything against the other designs. They are great and a lot of hard work was put into them.

Just because they are not what I think this light was meant to look like, doesn’t distract from the fact they are great designs.

I would love to see each of them made into their own flashlight and I would gladly buy them.

Props to all of you!

hi guys… been following this regularly. great job from the community. please put me on the interested list. thanks!

Wow, when I saw that quad I fell in love! That's definitely my favorite so far.

This thread is insane. I missed a few days and it took me a week to catch back up! You guys are doing an awesome job with this project. Every single design is top notch.

Thanks guys!

Dude, haven’t you been paying attention? This has all been worked out.
It will only require 4 potatoes provided they are a non-GMO/organic heirloom variety… or 8 standard potatoes provided they fit in the potato carrier.

Well said brother. :+1: Not only are we looking at five four (no offense Mr. Potato Head) excellent designs, but I’ll challenge anyone who’s followed this thread from start to finish to tell me they haven’t learned along the way. This thread has been all over the map and even included a few bar-room-brawls but through it all the dominant theme here is pure BLF. Brilliant innovation, excellent discussion, massive amounts of data, charts, graphs and links to websites and tools to further all of our knowledge, passionate arguments for and against all sides of every issue…what more could you ask for? :beer:

Wow!
Very nice designs!
Put me in for one, whichever design is selected.

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