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

Well you’re wrong… and I resent the accusation…! I’m not here to cause problems, though it’s comments such as yours which add credence to the idea that I am - thank you very much…!! Had you read my original post and following comments you would have seen that I was tabling a valid concern.

Oh yeah I would surely say “”this user agrees”” … :smiley:
I was not referring to a camera or video however. I was referring to what I can see in person. :slight_smile:

DEAD HORSE

Jason WW

Thank you very much. I like this place! :slight_smile:

I will not tell my wife. It will be a surprise. I know when she sees mine that she will want to confiscate it so I will tell her I love her so much that she can have it….then I will bring out the other one :open_mouth:

Wrong. Seated shoulder press with The GT in squat rack is more appropriate. :smiley:

…I think what gave your intention away and alerted that fact to me (and clearly others) was your choice of words which put across a sense of something other than a genuinely helpful intent to assist someone by finding out what flashlights they would be comparing the GT to…

…and I think you already know all that… I just think you’re not upfront and open enough to own it.
Sorry - but that’s what ‘I’ think.

All it took to disrupt this thread enough that it remained locked for a whole day was just one case of tr… I mean, individual with a very challenging behavior model. Bringing very little and producing a two-digit amount of posts, acting stone deaf to elaborate well explained answers and seeking argument no matter what, is not very nice.

:smiley: ……… That would be a good one to have. :+1: … :smiley:
But alas… it seems there is not one. :slight_smile:

Your message is received very clearly however…. :smiley: :smiley:

Well played. :slight_smile:

The rest of you , don’t feed the tr… uh mogwai after midnight.
Night.

Glad to have helped

or hip thrusts……. in yoga pants…… with the tail pointed erectly at the roof

EDIT: sorry I meant directly

I wonder what’s the warranty period of The GT since it has driven the led that hard. I hope it is put shorter than 3 months so that newbies won’t buy it and complain later. Sure that there are flashlights drive led very hard too, but they are with much higher price.

Is the warranty claim considered in price equation for The GT?

And switch on Turbo. :smiling_imp:

Spartan, I have much experience in building throwers, as much as anyone here. I like a cooler white in my throwers, and I didn’t keep the 4000K emitter in my GT for more than a few hours. As soon as I managed to break into the GT the emitter was swapped.

I have another GT in hand now, I wasn’t planning on opening it up as I intend to gift it, but I will open it and put one carrier in each light, using the same cells of which I have 8 matched. I will then attempt the same 1.9 mile beam shot at the water tower that I did last night and see if the warm 4000K hits the tower as well, better, or less than the cool white I swapped into my first GT. I will then report back soon after the test, tomorrow evening. With beam shots.

If the warm orange spot I saw in my first one doesn’t illuminate the tower to my satisfaction I will be swapping it out in the second GT before gifting occurs next month. Regardless of how the test comes out, I will not be using the 4000K in my personal light. I detest the color. Pure and simple.

ARSee, press the end of the bezel against a car tire (remove stones first in the treads) and use the tire to grip the bezel so you can twist it off. Worked for me. :wink:

This guy knows what’s up ^
Thanks for pitching in DB

Let me say now that the recent scratch build of my 6th scratch built light ALSO hits the tower at 1.9 miles, using a sliced/diced/shaved SST-40 emitter that was listed at 6500K before it’s surgery. It’s running 2400 lumens from a single 32650 cell on a simple FET+1 driver equipped with the A6 firmware.

Regardless of how many lights or how much experience Spartan may or may not have, my 160 lights and my 400+ build experience still leads me to a neutral or cool white emitter for best throw. It’s not just my eyes, but also the eyes of those I have built for over the past 4 years or so.

I think you have a genuine misunderstanding of the terms of this kind of group buy.

This thread provides the project information and the emitter change was not an unknown or unexpected development before the financial transactions occurred. That the desired “cooler” emitter wasn’t available was also known. I can appreciate that you may not have been tracking this thread for a long time but still, this is a sublime example of caveat emptor.

As for your statement about perception; I place more value on technical and practical merits than on perceptions. I have truly learned from reading the developments and knowledge in this thread and that is probably worth more to me than the hardware itself.

Dale, that comparison would be amazing. Thank you!

I think your disappointment all boils down to you mistaking a video of a prototype light as some type of official commercial for it.

I rewatched Matts original GT video and he clearly says he was showing a prototype, that the printed name “giggles” was a one off feature and to take the things in the video with a “box” of salt.

Granted, the old post #1 on this GT thread was kind of hard to find specific info on the light, but under pricing and emitters it did say - XHP35-HI NW.

As with any flashlight purchase, if your sensitive to emitter colors, then it’s important to find this information before you buy. If you don’t see it listed, you should ask. Many, many, many questions have been asked in this thread. If you had asked, it would have been answered.

I’m not a fan of NW either. I prefer cool white, which is why I have not bought a Q8, even though I signed up early and helped out where I could with its design.

With the GT, I think it’s just a matter of time before someone starts selling different temperature emitters on a properly sized mcpcb. For $10 to $15 you can buy whatever color you prefer. As long as you can solder two wires, it’s an easy thing to swap out. I plan to swap mine out, even though the stock color is not too bad.

I hope you enjoy your light. :beer: