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

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.

There are some new regulations in shipping lithium batteries: http://www.dhl.co.uk/en/express/shipping/shipping_advice/lithium_batteries.html

there are special stickers on my package, so that’s conform regulations.

Ahhh thanks for clearing up why the batteries have 2600mah stickers, its just for shipping conforms even though its 3500mah. Makes sense.

So they’re purposefully dodging tax and safety regulations, sweet.

Yes but to make sure you get your light and battery. So its for our benefit :slight_smile:

TBH I’m torn, I want the light, I want it badly but I also work in the freight industry and situations like this are constantly forcing the industry to tighten it’s regulations and make my job more difficult and more cumbersome.

They really have gone above and beyond with packaging though. When you get a pile of 18650’s in a little grey plastic bag and each cell is in a tiny weeny bit of cardboard I can understand.

This light is packaged super well. Loads of foam, loads of padding. not a chance for anything to move.

no notice for me, just a courier arriving at my door in the morning.

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