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

I do not understand why Neal sends someone a second flashlight when someone did not even get the first flashlight !? It hurts :cry:

Ask the person you sent your payment to…and it’s Neal.

That’d be because Neal isn’t sending them, Lumintop is making and sending them. Neal has supplied them with a list of people who have ordered in the first ~1000 od or whatever the number was up too and Lumintop is sending them out from there. Nothing to do with Neal as far I’m concerned.

This is odd as a friend of mine has to pick his up from the post depot today and mine certainly wasnt returned. Maybe it was only lights with cells that have been returned?

EDIT… this might be wrong. My friend had a ROYAL MAIL note through his door. I dont know if TNT drop off to Royal Mail depots or not.

IS IT ONLY LIGHTS WITH CELLS BEING RETURNED???

I don’t have full list of UK buyers but I have compiled this from a look through the paid spreadsheets:
chrisc DHL no batteries - Delivered
Jinx/Jeansy DHL no batteries - Delivered
terry b DHL no batteries - Delivered
Dydi92 DHL with batteries - RETURNED!
Tuigali DHL with batteries - RETURNED!
bella-headlight Registered no batteries
gravelmonkey Registered no batteries
G0OSE Registered no batteries
Essexman Registered with batteries

As far as I can see, all DHL without batteries are delivered but DHL with batteries have been returned!

Too add to this, anyone that has received their lights from DHL with lights, was there any lithium Ion battery warnings on the out side of the box?

Weighed mine at work 5lbs exactly 8x30Q’s.

Anyone that got batteries, are the Samsung 35E meant to be 3500mah? Mine are all 2600mah batteries.

Charging my cells at the moment so I can try it out when it gets dark!

Quick question which may have already been answered and I missed it, but why do the 35E cells have a 2600mAh sticker on them when they are 3500mAh?

Well that was good timing! haha

10th Dec package was delivered by TNT Good Luck…

Those specs in bold black prints are wrong…they are 3500mah cells

Haha how funny. mina says 2600mah sticker too. My charger does not say the capacity of cells, so I’m no able to check.

Neal - Are you 100% sure this is the reason they have been returned? I have never heard of UK Customs doing this.

Around three UK members have reported in this thread that their Flashlight with Batteries was returned to Lumintop as the package was not correctly marked, due to lithium batteries being inside.

I figured that was the case. I don’t see what the reasoning was for putting the stickers on.

They are 3500mAh and are proper 35E cells, I just didn’t get the point of the stickers being there.

I think they had the wrapers laying around and wanted to decrese the amount of them.

Probably down to the maximum capacity for cells in transit.

8 x 2600 = 20800
8 x 3500 = 28000

Maximum allowance is 100watt hour = 2.6A cells = 96.2watt hour, 3.5A cells = 129.5watt hour

It’s a sticker which has been added on after the plastic wrapper has been put on for the button top. It’s not part of the clear heatshrink tube.

Ahh that makes sense. Thanks for the info, I didn’t know about that.

You never know maybe UK customs checked the cells and saw them trying to pull a fast one on the delivery. It’s very easy to know what capacity cells have and there must be many Chinese companies trying to flout these restrictions.

There are ways of shipping more cells but it depends on this shipping method used.

To ship <100w/hour packs is a lot easier than >100w/hour packs which is why most of the powerbanks dont come much bigger than 20’000mah rating.