For anyone who wants to use Flat top cells, you can do it by unsoldering the spacers in the battery carrier. I showed the pics here: https://1lumen.com/18650-reviews/blf-gt/#battery-carrier-blf-gt
Guys please remember that if you follow ChibiM excellent pics and tutorial on removing the spacers on the gt battery carriers you will be removing the only protection the gt has for installing the batteries the wrong way. As long as you are careful, no problem, however it only has to happen once to really screw up this monster light. Cheers!
And all of you members in the U.S. that have those older battery carrier lights, Acebeam Lumintop, Phoenix, Thrunite and such, I’m willing as a public service to take those off your hands, so PM me and we will set something up (might be willing to pay for shipping for the really dangerous/possibly lethal 6-8 cell non protected carrier lights) so I can dispose of them properly for you!
I sold an HID light several years ago because the battery died, this was before I realized it could be rebuilt for less then the $80 they wanted for a new battery.
Out of curiosity, did anything ever happen with The Gadget Show?
Would be very interesting to see how much they can misrepresent a light like this because “its too big”. Its been many years since I have watched an episode and not needed a heap of salt to go with what they say…