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

OK
TN42 on highest
28°C outside no wind
After 6m22s the part with switch and driver is hot
I still can touch it but not comfortable.

The tube gets warmer and the head too but slower then the tube

10m49s
Switch driver part is hot
Uncomfortable hot
Head lags behind
Battery tube hot but less then the hottest parts at 6.22

13m40s
I stop for the hottest parts are not nice to hold and I don’t want to heat it up too much
Ah what the heck ok after a minute cool down back to highest
Two minutes in, again driver and switch area not burning hot but too hot to comfortable touch
Placed it on a bench so no heat can escape via my hand

4m30s head is hot, tube is hot. Only driver/switch area feels burning hit but I can keep my hands on it without actually burning so it is between 50°C and 55°C

5m58s
Driver/switch area seems stable, head and tube still rising. (So we are ~20 minutes in on freshly charged Panasonic protected 3400 cells.

8m40s
The tube and head feel like when I stopped the first time.
After a couple of seconds I can’t hold the driver/switch area, it still rises in temp.

10m42s
Tube can be held without tendency to grip with one finger and switch fingers to give the heat no chance of giving a burning sensation.
Head, no more then 4 seconds in firm grip, gotta let go then, max 2 seconds for driver/switch parts

14m30s
Tube is getting too hot to firmly grip
No equilibrium
Almost half an hour in
Was I walking a little breeze would have cooled it, was it cooler or was there a little wind, that would have helped
Would I have held it, my hand could have taken away heat.

Turning off at 16m30s
Cells feel warm, lol tricky to unscrew the tube
Carrier is warmer

So half an hour in not ideal situation for cooling
Yes the GT should do better but we can up the default thermal stepdown for it for sure :wink:

Five minutes later, all can be touched normally but is still warm to hot
Wow I am happy with the deep fins at the hottest parts of the GT!

EDIT voltage cells 3.81
walked with it on med for a few minutes too
starting voltage 4.19
pretty decent I think

Now you understand why I was so keen on max cooling for the GT with it’s “low output”. There is no such thing as too much cooling. lol

Also around here the outside temps can easily be 90-95f at night (last night it was around 93 till midnight). So it would heat up even more.

that hahoo sounds like a nice guy :wink:

Yeah no doubt. I wonder who he is?

in for 1

Must be Tom Hanks ! :sunglasses:

haha! would be nice…my bank account would have a few more zeros in it for sure :+1:

Is that your name here buddy? Really appreciate you looking out for me like you did… you’re a true gentleman! That goes for everyone else who tried to help too. nobones, eek… y’all know who you are! :slight_smile:

Btw I did finally receive a few texts from saabluster this week. He didn’t offer any timetable for my Deft-X mega upgrade though…. we just talked about life and stuff. :person_facepalming:

anytime my friend… :+1:
this light should be epic, would of hated to see you miss out :wink:

If it’s possible I like to have one, too.

Even if its not that useful I really want this flashlight. Its big, ugly, heavy and everyone will ask about it and thats perfect :smiley: .

I don’t know about ugly, but I’m definitely chuckling!

It’ll look like a normal size light in the hands of a really massive person. Slung on me it’ll look like exactly what it is, a huge light. Yes, it will definitely get comments.

I’d like to see an extended Q8ish 8 cell light for massively extended runtime if it could be done. It would be the power outage light to beat! Of course it would need to be easily slung.

Just registered for this, you can put me down for one GT too.

Welcome to BLF!
Will update list later :slight_smile:

Please put me down for one more, 3 in total. Thank you.

Q8 and GT really seem to push up the number of Members here … :+1: :wink:

Yeah, and my postcount too with all the welcomes :wink:

Will34 had a really sweet idea for a GT marking, we are tweaking it now so it can be presented!

any news on the reflector yet ?

And we have a first view on the reflector!




[quote=The Miller]
And we have a first view on the reflector!

wow, ask and ye shall receive :open_mouth: !
looks shiney! :stuck_out_tongue:
i wanna see a pic of it beside of a grapefruit :smiley: