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

Is there still a team of flashlight enthusiasts trying to bring this monster to life? :frowning:

Teacher, I’m working with/on that design so at this point it is still in.

To everyone, if you want to have the gt made please drop this discussion.
There is nothing more to say, all important questions are answered and everything you need to know is said.
We will give an update when we have one.

Thank you ‘thijsco19’ for answering my simple question. :+1:

:person_facepalming:
Not surprized, but it makes no difference; ‘thijsco19’ was gracious enough to provide a simple, uncomplicated answer.
Thank you, I shall endeavor to move ahead always, hopefully you shall also…. as well as Forever Upward. :+1:
Ahead & Upward…. despite bumps in the road, a great combination. :wink:

“To everyone, if you want to have the gt made please drop this discussion.”

Amen.
Drop the drama and if need be, let the moderaters filter it out.
Let’s stick to the subject and move on.

I’m still in!

Grtz
Nico

I al interested. Count with me for 1

Me too :wink:

Err… drop the conversation??
What’s going on here? I’m totally lost. There has been literally 90% less banter on here for the last 2 weeks, than anytime before.
I’m getting the impression something is going on certain members don’t want us to know about. If the conversation is to be “dropped” why even start a GT thread?
This is BS. All the drama is over, we want answers and updates and now we are being told to not discuss anything?? Bollocks. 100%.

Are you referring to this one:
https://www.fasttech.com/products/1617/10006828/1543306-110mm-aluminum-smooth-smo-reflector

Yes doesn’t that look just awesome!

Thank god. I just wanted to cut the crap before it started all over again.

This is exactly what I ment with ‘drop it’. There is nothing “going on”.

Obviously I was referring to all the drama. Its perfectly fine to talk about the GT. (might be better if I’ve said drop the drama)
All that need to be said from the team is said. There are no updates at this point afaik, all the questions are answered.

I don’t understand how it can be so extremely cheap? Even the smaller ones listed there are more expensive!

So,if there is a order of some hundreds of 120mm mirrors,the asked price would be a bit more expensive and not way expensive.

It looks like instead of machining the reflector they use a technical procedure called deep drawing. Once you have the form the production is be very cheap. My guess is that these reflectors are used in those cheap handheld plastic led “searchlights” where they sell high quantities.

Please add me to the list of interested in gp

So, if your “guess” is correct fritz15; do you think this type of reflector would be suitable for the “GT”?? Or would it just be a cheap compromise that sacrificed preformance?
Any thoughts or guesses at this point?

My guess there is that there is a reason most or basically all flashlights known to me use a reflector which is turned on a lathe. But I really don’t know very much about that so I’m probably the wrong one to ask.

Thank you, I understand; that makes sense to me.
I can’t imagine a reflector priced that cheap having much real value except for use in a crappy light.
But hey, I could be wrong; I’m no highly trained expert either. :wink:

I’m going to guess that it will work with large LEDs, but not will really small ones like XP-G2.

Why??

The bigger led, the more light will be reflected in the “wrong” direction…
But whit a smaller led placed exactly in focalpoint, more lightbeams will go in the right direction for that specific reflector.
And with a mathematical perfect parabola reflector with relatively big measures, the accuracy of installing the led in the focalpoint will determine if it will send the lightbeams in the right direction.

So a smaller led (if we can imagine they have the same output) will be better in this case.