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

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:

When is the next run?

Thank you…… :+1: … :slight_smile:

They are being built & shipped at the rate of 150 - 200 a week.

As far as the next group of payment PM’s…. They will be sent after most of the standing orders are filled, according to TA.
That will ’most likely’ be a couple of weeks.

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Group buy is closed.

Since human eyes adapt to environment, light source color tint and perceived objects, i wonder you can do a non biased test on these two lights. Somemore the object is far away, your brain might fool you one light is better for example you might take shorter time to recognize a distanced object when you shine on it second time.

I meant to say is there a better designed test methods for this kind of comparison.

I not jump in q8 cause it nw and i think for flood light i still have m6 and mf01.

But for gt, no light (right now) like this giant thrower…

Yes i buy gt and planned to swap emitter even i never do that before…

Hope will find on youtube how to do that… or hi… Dale how to changed your gt led? :slight_smile:

Thanks for the lead, Dale. I have some new conveyor belting. I'll lay a piece on the shop floor and try that.

My batts finally charged. I put the GT on the baby scale, and it weighed in at 5lbs-1.0 oz. I may need a bipod on my arm. LOL!!

You are not alone…. :wink:

Looking forward to what you find out………
Thank you. :+1:

I want one!!

You are adorable.

The Group Buy is CLOSED

Better luck next time. :slight_smile:

I think I want something in the 5k lumen range, in the 5000k range. We need to start seeing more mods and beam shots posted… What’s taking so long??? :innocent:

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THE GROUP BUY OFFICIALLY CLOSED AT 0822 CST ON 6 JANUARY 2018. POST #14394 WAS THE OFFICIAL WORD FROM TEXAS ACE THAT THE GROUP BUY IS NO LONGER ACTIVE. POST #14392 WAS THE LAST REQUEST OF THE GROUP BUY. IF YOU REQUESTED TO BE PLACED ON THE LIST AFTER THIS TIME YOU MISSED OUT ON THE GROUP BUY.

how is this a reduction?
this is a still shot of that video, so you can more closely compare the 2.
look at all that nasty looking, scattered , white light being wasted off the original.
compare the tree colors between the 2 lights
the cw makes the trees look dead and ghostly, like somebody hit them with a coat of white spray paint, or puked on them maybe :confounded:
then look at the nw version. looks like real trees
less scattered , wasted light coming off the center ball of fire.
both center hotspots look pretty close to intensity to me….

actually looks like snow sticking to the trees on the left, cool white led shot here…horrible for color rendering, for me anyways
looks so un natural