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

An inexpensive sling used cross body is an extremely comfortable way to carry the light. You don’t have a cold climate but anyone in a cold climate holding aluminum will quickly regret it and the colder the climate the more pronounced the effect. Aluminum wicks heat away from the hand just as rapidly as it does the same to the light. Of course a handle like that is extremely easy to insulate and gloves can be worn. I think it’s a great idea.

I am on list but got no mail for payment details so far is this normal?

Yes. You are #1635 on the sign up list.

So far only the people up to #1049 have gotten purchase info. Production of the lights is slow compared to a smaller light, like the Q8, so we are giving Lumintop and Neal some extra time to fill these first 850 or so orders.

It may be another week or two before Texas_Ace decides to send out the rest of the purchase PM’s to #1050 and above.

The latest report is that ~500 lights have shipped. So another 2-3 weeks till the next round of PM’s go out is a reasonable estimate.

Sorry, I thought you said you got a tracking info or shipping notice. No worries, though. I removed you. This is just a general list to see how Neal is shipping things.

The ANSI-FL1 standards measure the distance out until the light gets to 0.25 lux. This would be equivalent to moonlight on a full moon with a clear sky. So I’m guessing your water tower was being hit by less than 0.25 lux.

In theory, each individual photon travels out to infinity unless stopped by some object. It’s just radiation after all. All those billions/trillions of photons eventually spread out over distance.

Okay, so late January/early Feb?

Everyone is probably moaning, awwww. Lol

New photos of the GT handle prototype here.

I was the same and worried.

Just ignore it and it will turn up soon :slight_smile:

This is the latest “rough” list of people from the 3rd shipment who have either got tracking notices or received their light. These are all international orders and only DHL as far as I have seen.

(These are paid list numbers, not sign up numbers)

Bruno28 #12
TorinoFermic #42
Sciencetists #53
cypher1024 #57
FMC #78
Sirius9 #79
Itsme #96
Hunter1 #129
Bo4ka #144
Flasky #149
Hardware #174
Yoflash #178
Alux #180
Warzi1975 #181
DooMMasteR #193
Jaza #202
bibihang #244
piotrek966 #266
Specialk #292
D10ten #310
MACS0647 #315
Nicolicous #380
Lipfit2000 #437
Bking #515
CCl3NO2 #561
Tdh66 #595
Asmartik #599
Bobtb #637

I also updated post #1 with the latest shipping news.

Enderman or another reflector designer, what is the designed beam angle on the GT reflector?

I just got home from DHL pickup depot with my GT.

Has Registered mail been shipped out so far ?
If I had known DHL is their first priority for shipment regardless of region , I would have chosen DHL over Registered mail at the beginning.

Everyday reading the post of people got their light and some even got 2 lights .
What a shame, I am disappoint that they don’t treat the first 555 customers who paid deposit as first priority.

Is there a reason the reflector has to be made from aluminum? If the surface has a reflective coating put on it then the underlining material shouldn't matter as long as it had the right requirements for things like durability and thermal stability. What I am thinking about are polymers and resins. They are relatively easy to machine or mold and can produce a very smooth finish ready for the final coating. Plus, they are not usually an expensive material.

I honestly have no idea, but I would think that if there was a cheaper or more effective material to use, it would be used.
this is not the teams first rodeo and especially with lumintop producing these lights, you can be pretty sure they made the right choice.

I am not doubting or questioning them in the least. Sorry if it sounded that way. I just would like to know why it is always aluminum. What I put out there was so someone would know what I was comparing it to. It was just something I was wondering about and this is the place that has answers.

I think you will have to be content with being in the first 850 to receive their light as well as getting it $40 cheaper than anyone else on the group buy list.

I would imagine if cost wasn’t an issue they could be made out of silver. Nothing shines like polished silver. Of course over time the silver would start tarnishing.Sigh

That is an interesting question species8472. :+1:
I’d like to know that also. And like you, my interest has nothing at all to do with the GT either. . :slight_smile:

Molds are extremely expensive to make and would have taken far longer to come to market. While the material it’s made out of is inexpensive and the polymer in the mold is also inexpensive, the mold itself needs to be paid for. The lights would have cost far more if the reflectors had been molded. It’s just economics. It woudn’t have saved money. Lumintop did it correctly IMO.