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

How can I purchase a BLF Giga Thrower?

I’m sorry, but it is not available for sale right now. Existing orders are still being fulfilled. Once the light goes for sale to the public, Madmax might have a sale on them.

You can send him a PM, personal message, and ask if he will notify you when he puts them up for sale.
http://budgetlightforum.com/messages/new/11225?destination=user/11225

It may be a couple of months, though.

Should we do a 3.5MCd thrower?

Does this sound accurate? I added it to post #1.

If you’re located in the USA try here: https://www.mouser.com/

Thanks BoxCarWillie that site is wonderful just need to find the exact bin, and hopefully it doesnt require a minimum of 1000 emitters.

You’re Welcome! You can also go to the Cree data sheet and find the code order numbers if you scroll down:
http://www.cree.com/led-components/media/documents/ds-XHP35.pdf

Then if you copy and paste the code order number, you can go here and paste it in the search section here:
https://octopart.com/

This should show you a list of companies that may have the part you are looking for! :wink:

Thanks Jason, hopefully that clears some doubts about the FedEx confusion a few pages back!

With all this “just be patient”, I’m starting to get deja vu from my experience with the BLF X6/X5 GB a couple of years ago. :frowning:

Did that one have slow production as well? It was before my time.

No it’s not the same situation as this light. Whilst it would be nice to have this one already I am not really concerned about it and have no doubt it will get to me when it’s ready, it’s just hearing those same words brings back memories haha

With that group buy it was limited to 400 units with serial numbers on each light. I had ordered two sets, number 19 and number 150 on the list and as such was supposed to get two X5/X6 sets with numbers 19 of 400 and 150 of 400 in matching timber display cases. I paid within an hour of the link going live and paid a lot extra for an upgraded shipping option which was only supposed to take like 3 days. Weeks went by and the tracking numbers never worked so I asked and asked and asked and everyone just kept telling me they would arrive just to be patient. Eventually someone at Banggood finally looked into it and told me my lights never got shipped and were no longer available. By that stage almost all of the stock had sold out and all they could offer me was some individual lights with all random high serial numbers and there were no timber boxes left. It was a disappointing experience.

I am game if I can find the time.

I got a text from DHL last night that my 2nd round light is on its way to USA, no ETA given.

Congratulations! Lumintop must love the USA very much.

Sounds good to me.

You will get the light, not to worry. It is only a question of time.

Once they catch up on the orders we will take a headcount to see if anyone was missed and ship out lights as needed. I would be surprised if at least 1 person was not missed with all the hands the shipping and order information has to jump through with the current system.

This is why for the next GB I want it all automated, remove the human hands and about 90% of the hassle, work and issues we are dealing with along with it.

Luckily we are getting close, a few more weeks and things should be basically caught up and then we can start really looking into any possible issues.

Not that they love the USA so much as they love DHL and most of the DHL shipments are going to the USA.

It is perfectly understandable as well, I have yet to hear about a real issue with the DHL shipping but I know that the registered mail will have issues, it always does.

No one is looking forward to dealing with those issues.

I am also wanting to get some of these as well, got a boost driver I am about to start playing with and I really like these.

Although I have been talking to Neal about them and he actually found an even better LED option that he tried to send me for testing but sadly it was lost along the way.

If they test well they should be a very good XHP35 option and could even make it into the next round of GT’s if they test very good. They are 4500k vs 4000k.

Sadly They do not have the same LED, I have already looked. They only have like 1 XHP35 HI LED sadly. They have several XHP35 HD’s to pick from.

I got one of them to play with on the boost drivers I am about to start testing.

Just got a call from DHL. I use my Google voice number and some systems won’t work to text it. But it seems I have a light coming with batteries.