Sony vtc6
Samsung 30q
Edit; wrong thread
The Q8 needs button top cells, but solder blobs do the job well (see Tom E his pictures above)
Panasonic ncr18650ga also will work fine, since you only need 2,5 A
You may have missed it, LT will be offering a deal to buy 8 of there own brand cells with the light.
Which is nice.
We cannot buy Liion from China,except of the 4pcs samsung inr18650 30q button top,with protected box,which I ordered today after a post from BLFer Elvic.
Unfortunately,there is not such an option for the Panasonics.If some guy can communicate with some of the BG staff,it could be possible to sell Panasonics with the protected box.
Edit.
Which type of batteries should be used,button top,or flat top?
There is one eBay.com seller(neobattery) from Greece who sells and ships batteries to most places in EU I think.
I have ordered from him couple of times and shipped within a week to Finland.
OK,I”ll try.
maybe I can help,I can send the battery worldwide
The GT will work with pretty much any cells, I have been using some laptop pulls with good results in the prototype.
The 30Q will maintain full regulation a bit longer but GA’s will last longer overall. I would not stress out too much over the cells.
Giggles cell carriers have been updated with polarity protection. By default you will need button top cells or solder blobbed cells.
The protection can be removed if you truly want to use flat top cells and are willing to accept the risk though. Even I am going to leave it in place, it is just too easy to be absent minded and pop a cell in backwards without thinking.
Better to have a safety net in place just in case.
Personally I would pick Panasonic GA’s for Giggles, they are my go to cells for everything. If you could arrange for these to be sent with the GT that would be great.
I found a new mail to US
they said a week to US, I sent several packages to US,waiting for result
Since nobody has tried this before so one could only guess. If the XHP70.2 is driven to 6000 lumens, I would say the the light could possibly produce 250~300kcd (1~1.1km). The throw is still impressive not to mention that with the 6000 lumens output it is just a different kind of monster. I used to owned one of these generic 85W HID flashlights purchased from Aliexpress and the throw is about 200kcd, so this BLF GT will beat these HID flashlights in every way despite that the GT has a much bigger reflector.
And with sliced dome, >400kcd maybe?
I was also thinking around 1000m of throw for the xhp70.2 but like you said, it is purely a guess at this point.
My Convoy L6 with a XHP70.2 P2 3B and SMO reflector does 195 kcd, but pushed hard at about 18A and 8,200 lumens @30 secs, 9,000 @turn on. Driven at lower amps in a GT, would hope it would do at least 250 kcd.
Fun, isn’t it Tom? 
boy, after 30 secs in the PVC light box, it's freak'n hot! But if it ain't hot, it ain't fun!
Hhhmmm, just like my peppers. The Carolina Reapers are getting close now, many full size, just not red yet.
What’s the latest timetable for this baby? I’m ready to pay! :money_mouth_face:
There's prep work in progress and Lumintop seems to be making it a priority, but I can't say what this means it terms of a time frame.
The Test PM just went out to the team a few hours ago. Once all the back end stuff is sorted out on that we should be able to get the ball rolling on the down payment PM’s.
We are still waiting for the final pictures of the updates from lumintop before final approval, my guess is the prototype parts are in production and they will send the pictures once they are done.
this is worse than Christmas, when i was a kid…… :smiling_imp: 