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

Funny you should mention that - #1 of the approval prototypes is just in! I have had a stupid grin on my face for the last two hours. This thing is ridiculously huge - I love it! :smiley:

First impressions are great. These are obvious prototypes, few small surface imperfections on mine. But the anodizing, machining, fit, finish is excellent otherwise. Mine is a shorty, but the head is less heavy than expected and the imbalance is not too bad. Should note that the LED bin/tint is unknown. Would have to guess a 2B or 1C for the tint, cool with a hint of green. The production units will have 3D.

Cell holder is pretty nice, solid and ergonomic for swapping out cells.

NarsilM was not set to the default ramping mode and was confusing for a second. Set it back to ramping and did not look back.

Ran it against a stock Olight M3Xs (250 kcd) and an L2 host fitted with an XPL-Hi and FET driver. Measured at 10 m:

L2: 1430 lux, 143 kcd, 756 m
M3Xs: 1960 lux, 196 kcd, 885 m
GT: 8850 lux, 885 kcd, 1881 m

EDIT: Those cells were only half charged and sagging enough for the buck to drop out of regulation.
A set of 30Qs at 4 V gives 10600 lux at 10 m. That is 1.06 Mcd or 2.059 km of throw.

Had it running for several minutes while taking measurements. This thing is a beast, body/head did not even get luke-warm.

Out of the box:

Some BLF favorites for scale:

My closest contender for throw:

My closest contender for size:

Business end:

Details:

Battery tube and end cap. Someone had the cell-holder in backwards at some time, some brass transfer inside the cap:

Excellent threads:

Cell holder, very nice design. Driver end:

Back end, to mate with second holder:

Springs look just about perfect for both protected and unprotected cells. These protected PFs have about 3 mm compression left:

High quality PCB ends:

Driver, conventional retaining ring:

Waiting for the dark. Driver autopsy to follow later :smiley:

amazing… only thing i can say. except that the lux really falls short of the expected 1.2 mil.

I am smiling in anticipation of my proto showing up tomorrow or the next day. It looks great.

Curious what the throw numbers will do at further distance, with a reflector this large it could take some distance for the beam to truly focus / converge.

Do not put too much on my numbers yet. That meter shorts the M3xs as well.

Trees at the end of the lot is 500 ft/150 m away. ISO100, 2s exposure, manual white balance, unedited. Set of so-so cells from my M6, photo does not do it justice:

that’s actually very nice, just the rightsize at such a distance. definitely not going to have to worry about blinding people(not those who shouldn’t be expecting a beam in their face anyway haha) when pointing somewhere further downrange.

Hold the press. My 3 meters agree, but the cells were sagging and the buck was not in regulation.

A set of 30Qs at 4 V gives 10600 lux at 10 m. That is 1.06 Mcd or 2.059 km of throw.

So a confirmed 1mcd! Not bad at all!

hurrah! my spare GA’s are impatiently waiting to unleash their true potential with this monster :smiling_imp: the beamshots i’m going to take when the GT starts rolling off the line….

that head with a short tube look awfully wrong but i like that. :stuck_out_tongue:

Finally dark. Exposure increased to 5 s, and I think this is closer to what the eye sees. Tree at 500 ft / 150 m.

The GT, a BLF special giga thrower
OK good news
LUMINTOP is going to build and sell the BLF GT

I enter in: http://www.lumintop.com/
open account new

I use google translate
How to open account?
How to register with Lumintop?
How to buy at Lumintop?
Please help.
Or +5 days and I do not buy BLF GT

Same Website Misconception?
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Do you have a picture of the short light being hand-held ? Also, is the short tube going to be available as an accessory?

Could you please add me to the list for one. Thank you.

Thanks DEL for the update. Hopefully I’ll have a stupid grin on my face tonight.

Don’t panic. There’s plenty of time and no one is taking money at this time. Maybe you can get a fellow countryman to walk you through it.

Thank you for the update and pics DEL! :beer:

Yes thank you for the pics. Beautiful beam profile

It looks like you’ll need maybe 50m for a good lux measurement!!! LOL :smiling_imp:

That is awsome news about the light DEL! :laughing:

With the short handle, it really looks similar to the BTU Shocker. Maybe this would be a good light to engrave that hand symbol on…

At the very least, it’s a good light to reach out and touch someone. :smiley:

Looking good ! I mean kinda ridiculous next to M3X UT but smile is on my face.
Now that unknown XHP35 makes 1Mcd, so what can we expect with 3d tint since in TN42 neutral white makes 10% less cd, and in UT02 even more.
Lumintop did a grat job, but we must make sure that highest bin xhp35 will be used in production.