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

I tried to figure this out myself, but couldn’t. BeardedRaleigh said he was the first to order and his name is first on the list. Was he really first to order or did he see his name on the list and just assumed he was the first.

I know some of the people who have ordered in the last few days are not on the list - yet.

I guess it makes sense that it’s in order of payments. Maybe some of the people who ordered as soon as they got their PM can chime in if they are at the front of this list or at the middle or rear.

Me neither… am a bit worried o.O payed on Dec. 2nd…… waiting and anticipating a tracking number…

List Updated - Click to view latest list of names

I ordered with in 10 minutes of the PM and at 24 on that list. In no hurry or anything just some info. Dec 1st late at night, I was actually about to go to bed when I got my PM email from BLF.

I ordered 2 hrs after the PM, since it was sent at 5 am @UTC+1

Relax. I have not been notified of tracking either.

I paid on Dec 1.

Just for fun.

No email from DHL but USPS tells me I have something coming today that flew into San Francisco, wonder if it’s the GT.

About 5min here. Looks like it is probably in order of payment.

I paid for my GT within a few minutes of getting the P.M., and I’m #10 on the list. Looks like the list may be in order of payment received. I’m hoping the lights are shipped in the same order. :wink:

I paid several hours later.

I’m prob just over half way down the list so I agree that it looks to be in paid order.

So using your formula and Cree’s specs of 280lm mm^2 * pi = 880cd mm^2 at the manufacture’s rated current of 2A. If I remember correctly the flat black achieves it’s max around 5-6A. I’m just wondering how this compares. I know the manufactured is saying it has 5x the lumen density of previous gen cree leds. None of this matters if they don’t produce a larger version with adequate output, but it’s interesting.

When looking at the datasheet click on the heading for column A, a drop down menu will appear, click on sort A-Z.
This will give you the list sorted by your interest list number, the column of numbers on the left are just the line numbers of the database :wink:

Cheers David

I haven’t received any notification yet… :weary:

Neal has been busy at lumintop the last few days, I am sure he will get to it shortly.

I have no idea what those notifications are about, according to Neal earlier today they are not shipping until next week.

I think it is in the order that Neal saw the payments, so roughly in the order people paid.

Ok, I do have a bit of a personal update.

I had been off work the last few weeks for the holidays which is why I was able to take on this full time job of this group buy but I was just informed that I will have to return to work earlier then planned.

So I will not be around much after today. Hopefully the Miller shows back up and can keep things on track.

I had signed up to do the design process, so I was not prepared for this side of things. Thanks to the rest of the team for pulling together to make this happen as well.

I will try to keep up with things as best I can but I generally only get a few mins in the morning to myself, so that could be hard.

The next round of PM’s are almost ready to go, just waiting on one last details and then we will start the process of sending them out tomorrow or saturday (well, Scott and SB will).

Luckily most of the hard work is done at this point, so after this Neal should be able to get your payments and ship out the lights.

Thanks T_A, along with all the other team members, for your hard work on the GT project! I can’t wait to receive my light!

I just bought one of these today. It seems very heavy duty and surprisingly well made to me! Will make a ridiculously overkill case for my BLF GT.

There is a current 25% off coupon available ( www.hfqpdb.com - no affiliation) that brought the cost to $30 + tax. Unprecedented in my opinion for this Pelican type case.

Unless it has changed…… The Official word is that shipping will begin Monday…….