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

Better build 2 houses and get rid of 2 families. “Temporarily” as a measure of time has a nasty habit of falling short… quite short of expectations.

MARK

AND list updated (core)

Now the test PMs worked, thanks so much to Mr.Scott and SB for doing it.

all as expected, so with the new core list, and a PM sstem that is working, Neal begin ready to process all the PMs and payments, it should not be long now.
Of course topic title will be changed to indicate the sending, a list of how the sending went will be posted and list of BLFers who made the down payment will be made by Neal and posted too.

Oh wow, spot 682 was empty, you should have been 681, really asy to correct this error

Hype!

Oh gosh I SO hope there is no hype and people do thinfs based on real Info, it is one of the prime reasons to show the whole process and not do things like teasers .
We try to post info ASAP and clear, being open about flaws as well as the good stuff.

I seem to have not got my name on the purchase list somehow.

Can I please be added to the list! :slight_smile:

Cheers :beer:

yes will do next time list gets updated

how can i get “giggle” laser engraved on the light, like the one above
it made me GIGGLE :smiley:

I have accsess to a laser engraver locally but they are becoming more and more common. If you look around it is usually not that hard to get it done. Worst case you could send it off somewhere, since only the tube would need to be engraved it would not cost that much.

Only way we could get it done from the factory is if everyone was ok with it.

Personally I REALLY like how it looks, really adds life to the light if you ask me.

The miller, you can remove my name on spot 67. I only want one and that spot was from before I joined the team. (Forgot that I was holding a spot on the list)

So I guess I made someone happy. :smiley:

Will the final kcd typical to all lights of this monster be posted before we are given the go signal pm thereby starting the 5-day buy window?

The reason l am asking is, for me, being already an owner of much smaller, lighter 1.034mcd aspheric thrower, l would hopefully expect this light to exceed it handily to justify the purchase of this light.

Perhaps at least 1.2mcd as earlier mentioned?

Thijsco, yes yo did! When my calculations are correct, that makes me #555 on the list!

We will not know the exact throw until the final versions are ready. It should be over 1mcd, how much is hard to say.

The neutral tints of the production versions will also reduce the paper number readings on a lux meter even though they throw further in the real world.

With the improved reflector the production version should have, it could reach 1.2mcd if you swapped in a CW emitter just for the sake of numbers on paper but a reduction in real world throw. A dedomed xhp35 should also give some improvement if someone wanted.

We simply can’t say for sure one way or the other as we have not seen it for ourselves.

What we can say is that with the CW emitter the prototype did 1.1mcd. The reflector should be better in the finished version so that should lead to some level of improvement.

Nice…l will be waiting for it. :beer:

Would be interested in what this mystery smaller, lighter aspheric thrower is. I know it's do-able, but probably not for this price. Also, probably it will not have a spot as big, or put out as much lumens.

Right now you can buy lights that throw further for sure, but cost and beam size tradeoffs.

The Deft X (Supbeam/Acebeam K40 as host, though much more expensive).

Ahhh - the Wrath of Ra right now seems like the best deal for a compact 1,000 Kcd aspheric, way cheaper than the Deft X was, and think'n smaller. But of course Michael has some stuff in the works, so should be exciting to see what he comes up with. He's also signed up here for a GT .

With or without a collar?

If you are talking about this one;

https://www.silentthunderordnance.com/shop/wrath-of-ra

That looks just like a modded uniquefire 1508 to me

Yep, sure is. It is using the UF-1508 as the host, he even states that clearly. If you can mod, or know someone who can mod a 1508 host for 1 Mcd, go right ahead - I sure can't. A Deft X was just a modded K40 also...

We discussed them a while back, here: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/42408/3023, post #3023

BLF user scianiac is one of the partners. I've had some pm discussions with him - all seems legit, though haven't seen any independent reviews.

Thanks for the info Tom, i must have missed that.
Since i am not experienced in candelas and the rating (last time was in high school, which was a long time ago) it seems i have something to refresh and/or learn

If i understand you correct it is not as simple as changing the led, mcpcb, driver, bypasses, all the usual finetuning and even then it will not give 1Mcd?