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

500 lights have shipped out of 850 orders. Yours is probably one of the 350 that have not shipped yet.

I still find it hard to believe that it is a GT that has been stopped. Why would Neal/Lumintop use FedEX to ship instead of DHL. You’d think that they’d have a deal with a shipping firm and if you’re shipping hundreds of units you’d send them all via the same method.

I’m sure Neal could confirm.

Nothing is wrong.

The 555 list went up to about #769 or #770 on the Millers list due to people not making down payments. So you are still in the first round of payments.

Update from FedEx (Twitter-FedExHelpEU).
Apparantly the package was sent by Lumintop, and was described as ‘plastic flashlight.’
Again, nothing specifically saying it was the GT, but the circumstances would suggest that it is.

You signed up for DHL, right? For you to recieve info from FedEx from Lumintop is quite strange.

Yes, thats the one. but never mind,
idea was to try to fit luminus pt-54 led (which is 3V led) inside the GT but I disregarded huge difference in input voltages, BLF A6 takes 4.2V max…

I got no PM in my inbox…. that’s why I am a little concerned if I got left out…… I am around 1050 in line, perhaps the PMs haven’t been sent to those that far down in the Q yet?

Right, I selected DHL, I completely agree, it was a surprise to receive info from FedEx full stop as I have not, to my knowledge, got anything coming from them at all.

I should probably point out again, I’m purely posting this for information and help-for myself and others. I know some people feel there is a bit of moaning going on in this thread…whether that is true, or just the result of a misunderstanding…that certainly isn’t what this input is.
I’ve been impressed with the progress of everything so far, and even if this is all correct, likely isn’t the fault of the BLF team.

Correct. We are still filling orders from the first group of purchases #1 to #1049. You are in the third round of purchases #1065 which has not started yet.

Thanks Jason!

There will be people modding the GT to 3v. It requires a new driver plus modding the carriers from 4S to 4P. Texas_Ace might do this as well to try the Oslon Black Flat led. It’s 1mm by 1mm, but only about 700 to 800 lumen. (xhp35 is 2mm x 2mm) It should make for a tiny, pencil thin beam that goes further than the stock GT.

Or maybe the xp-g2 (1.2mm x 1.29mm, 1,000 lumen)

Vinh at Skylumen is working on a 3v CFT90 version.

I was simply saying I didn’t think it was a GT as it made little sense for it to go via Fedex.
I’ll ping the others in the UK who placed orders and see if they’ve got any info recently.

Nice, then I will wait to see the results :smiley: I have several Luminus PT-54 leds in red color, they are super nice, 8A easy, I think up to 18A, blinding red light :smiley:

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No help here I’m afraid, I’m registered shipping.

Same for me, registered shipping, yep, I’m cheap.

I’m in the UK as well and a few days ago I received a notification from FedEx saying my package was due for delivery by 12/01
Since I was waiting for a few orders at the time and thought Lumintop shipped all their lights through DHL I didn’t think it could have been it, but after receiving my other parcels, never actually getting anything by Fedex and after Tuigali spoke about his issue I think I could also be in the same boat maybe idk ?
I also didn’t receive anything telling me the parcel was sent back so I don’t really know what to do now apart from waiting :confused:

I can say that US orders are shipping DHL and 130 lights should be going out tomorrow.

Where is this info coming from?

Got a response back from Neal that I sent him a couple weeks ago to see if my shipping could be changed.