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

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:

It looks nice. But, why is the reflector pictured not the same as the drawing? Where are the extra ribs and such? Did they decide it was unnecessary?

[quote=nodoubt]

Yeah this was funny, yourquestion (not yet answered and ten receiving the email :wink:

David, I thought it were like guide lines, those ribs, not for making them but to indicate the sizes.
But IDK,

I would prefer a deper reflector, 140mm or similar. I think it should be at least as deep as its diameter.

:sunglasses: :+1:

[quote=The Miller]

The ribs in the drawing are ribs. They have dimensions in two directions for each one. But, maybe they did decide those weren’t needed, so left them out. I guess we’ll find out!

somewhere in the thread all the calculations to get to this size can be found.
Basically this is an upscaled TN42 reflector.
Our top ID vs depth is 0.5% off if a TN42 reflector would have been upscaled, of course ours is better for so much thinking, research and calculating went into it :smiley:
it was very cool however to see that with all the work it took to get to these sizes it was so close to the TN42, our starting point was the top ID and it went from there.

place a led to center of the reflector and let us see that big yellow ring :sunglasses:

Yes, it was discussed way back ago that the ideal was to be as deep as it is wide. I can’t remember if it was said here why that was changed.

I thought someone said that the TN42 reflector was also (at least nearly) as deep as it was wide?

I just looked at the OP again, and the conceptual render shows the reflector as 120mm wide x 100mm deep. So, I guess I just forgot that decision was made. Oh well, carry on!

Impressive! :+1:
These guys are not wasting any time…… :wink:

Very nice, can’t wait to see what the final result will be!
Maxabeam type throw?

tn42, is 84mm deep, by 90mm wide…