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

Of course i dont expect to be the first to get one i just hope to be the first in australia if no one has see these yet but i just want to be on the list
Id like to know if i can put a deposit down on one

When will they start to be available

Payment details are not set. Once production starts and it gets close to buying time you will get a PM telling you all the details. What store to go to and what special code to enter to get the discounted price, etc… We may even need to do a small deposit before that. It’s still not known.

So for now we wait. :smiley:

Fite me M8

Please add me to the list. Thank you.

It may be the shorty prototype but it is still giggles :wink:

Cheers David

That shorty one is really funny looking. The more I look at it the more I want it. But just for the fun, for practical use (as far as the GT is practical… :smiley: ) the normal tube is much better.

Hey the Miller, change that topic title! :stuck_out_tongue:

But that would only work when it’s tail standing? The tailcap isn’t part of the electrical path. The carriers have to loose contact with the driver. Or what do I miss?..

I totally agree, they should make a shorty tube accessory option. As impressive as the Giggles beam will be, bringing out the shorty would be hilarious. :smiley:

The short tube makes it wayyyy out of balance to the point of causing wrist discomfort/pain fairly quick, my wife needs both hands to hold it without discomfort. (minds back above the waist level please)
However I am thinking about using it to make a 3 carrier light, 4s3p, and pushing a xhp50.2 hard, that way any decent (matched) cells will deliver enough power :smiling_imp:

Cheers David

No kidding huh, out of balance, who would of thunk? :smiley:

I do not care, I would still like to purchase it if it becomes available, along with spare parts too.

Can’t you hire a Donk for the heavy work? :wink:

Thanks for the kind words.

I will post my full thoughts on this LED later with the beam shots but based on the currently available options I think this is the best option. In a perfect world I might pick a slightly different LED for mass production but those LED’s are MIA across the globe right now it seems and would cause significant delays if we tried to get them.

I can say that this LED easily threw further in the real world then the cool white LED, by a fair margin.

Although I think people may have misunderstood. This LED is not high CRI (sadly), it is a min 70CRI (which is better then the 68cri most lights use) LED, the tint is simply better then most LED’s and the output is surprisingly high.

What I meant was that once you go neutral white the only place left to go is high CRI neutral white.

That knurling looks so nice on the battery tube. Seems a shame to machine those flat spots over it

In the real world NW looks FAR more natural, only on a white wall can a NW look “dirty”.

It also depends n the flavor of NW, a 4500K NW is gorgeous to look at in any condition.

5000k is still great (that is the popular 3D tint).

4000k is also good, it is almost the same as HID car headlights (they range from 4100-4300k) for example because that tint has been found to be the easiest on the human eyes and give the most clarity.

If all the studies for cars headlights had them settle on ~4100k-4300k worldwide, then you can bet there was a reason for it.

4500k is my personal favorite tint but either 4000k or 5000k are still acceptable.

I would almost agree, if we are not going to print anything on those flat spots anyways, there is really not a reason for them to be there I suppose but also really late in the game to make a change that big.

It can be locked out with around 1/4 of a turn, maybe 1/2 a turn max. The carriers have a spring in the button tops, without pressure pushing them together the spring forces them to break contact. Mine generally locks out with as little as 1/8 of a turn.

Agreed! I will purchase a short tube if they are offered.

Thanks for the second gen looks TA, nice pics, really shows how Lumintop is paying attention to detail and getting it right.

McLumens, I also like a pure white not tinted in either direction, but it’s been really tough finding an emitter that follows this line of thought. Slightly warmer than pure white works beautifully though, in the 3D range or so, and I think TA and the crew are pushing for just this, a bit of a higher NW and not the orangy looking tint that still somehow falls in the NW range.

It’s being handled well, I like what I’m seeing and have little doubt it will be done to near perfection quite soon. :wink:

I would like to be put on the list to buy 2 of those BLF GT Flashlights.
Please advise what to do next.

Some thoughts​ about the GT:

1) As I am also owning an Acebeam K60, I just ask, if an OP reflector has also been tested with the giggles?
I know that an OP reflector costs a lot of throw, but I have seen what a perfect beam it can produce (very good throw/flood balance), together with a large reflector and single emitter.
Wouldn’t an OP reflector deliver a perfect allround torch? (An alternative “miggles” version maybe? :wink: )

2) why is no HXP70 emitter used in the giggles? Is it too large for a perfect throw? It would allow more lumens ( at least 5000)…