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

I would like to be put on the list to buy one of these please.

This is financially irresponsible…please add me.

Wow Hovsky first post since 2013 , and you said it right !!!

Totally irresponsible but so irresistible !

Is that the first emitter you checked, on the pictures above and making 2600 lumens on 2,5A.

If so ,I am impressed with tint and performance, reminding me to XM-L2 4D Fasttech used to have couple years ago

Yes, the other one is in Giggles V2 now. It is very impressive, the highest output XHP35 HI I have tested so far IIRC.

I actually swapped my 1405 from a 3C E2 to the NW D4 and it looks WAY better now. I love it.

Can’t wait for night.

I thought the first prototype was good and ready for production, but this V2 seems to be virtually perfect. I doubt it can get even better at 111 $.
BTW, have you tried an XHP 70.2 in the BLF GT?

Not an xhp70.2 yet, still waiting get my hands on one.

There may or may not be an old xhp70 in close proximity to the V2 prototype though. Although I have a feeling it will have a donut hole, so the xhp70.2 would be needed for best performance.

Thanks for the cw and nw detailed explanation. I was going to get a TN-42 but once I saw your light was better I got in on it. I did a lot of research because Thrunite gave you an option. CW or NW, I was wondering why you guys chose NW. It’s good you explained to everyone why you think its better. Looking forward to trying it out. Never had a NW light before.

Once you go NW you never go back.

You then move forward into high CRI NW.

I am rather picky, neutral white is no longer good enough, I need high CRI and will gladly give up lumens to reach it in many cases. It just look so much better and you can actually see what you are looking at.

I figure I will repost my story of what turned me onto NW again in condensed form.

I had both a thorfire S70 with the CW stock emitter and a convoy L6 with the NW 3A emitter. I modded both of them with a TA driver and they were both making around 6k lumens. The thorfire was about 10% higher in both lumens and throw when tested on the meter.

I took them out with the family and was testing them on a bridge over a creek. First I turned on the S70 and it was an impressive beam, lit up everything bright and we thought it was really impressive.

That is until I turned on the L6, instantly everyone unanimously liked it more by a wide margin. The beam was more pleasing to look at, the colors were far more life like and what really shocked me was that it actually seemed both brighter and it easily threw further. I expected exactly the oppisote result so it shocked me.

With the S70 we could just make out the far bank of the creek.

With the L6 we could easily see the rocks, bushes and even the frogs jumping into the water.

I was so shocked that as soon as I got home I checked the batteries in both of them and re-tested both lights. Sure enough same results as before, the batteries were about the same voltage and the S70 still was about 10% higher on the meter then the L6.

After that I ditched CW altogether and looked at lumens completely differently. Ever since I have been focusing on high CRI NW LES’s even if I don’t get as many lumens and never looked back.

People that see my lights always comment on how good everything looks and wounder what kind of light it is since they are used to seeing CW LED flashlights.

The moral to the store is that paper numbers don’t tell the whole story but then that is the case for many things.

I would like to be added for 1 unit. Am I too late?

It is never too late for an overkill thrower flashlight.

Haven’t researched much since I am more biased to cooler tints but the Q8 has a nice usable tint, Are there any comparison pics between NW and NW Hi CRI? Link?

Check out Clemence’s threads on the 219c’s. He has a lot of good comparison pictures that might interest you.

Once you see high CRI in the real world everything else seems lifeless, unless all you do is white wall hunting.

I paid the $14 dollar deposit, and I am in the first 555, did I miss anything else?

You’re in the first 555, You haven’t missed anything yet.

You’ll see this thread Title change, this thread blowing up and be getting a PM when time to pay the rest.

@Texas_Ace
Is the light able to be locked out by unscrewing the tailcap or tube?

Yes, you can lock it out with about 1/4 of a turn on the tailcap.

We need beamshots! TA, would you be so kind as to provide us with some pics?

I would like to give a big thanks to all the folks involved with producing this GT flashlight! :+1:

I do have a few questions:

1- Will my KeepPower (PC) 18650’s fit in the battery holders?
2- Will there be replacement parts, such as a reflector, battery holder, ect., in the event of an accident?
3- Will I have the option of choosing a certain bin for the XHP35-HI?

Thanks in advanced!

Just got back from taking some, not sure how well they turned out but should be able to post them tomorrow. It lit up a water tower ~1 mile away but not sure if the camera caught it.

EDIT, yep, just had a look at the pics, confirmed that it showed up on the pictures that it lit up 2 separate water towers at ~.9 miles and 1.1 miles away respectively.

I will try to export them and upload them tomorrow, they are not nearly as good as VOB’s but hey, how many people can say they have lit something up over a mile away with a handheld flashlight (well, before Giggles goes on sale that is).

The warmer tint really helps it cut through the humidity as well