GB Clone Offically "SOLD OUT" 10/21/18 XPL HI 1300LM Focusing AKA Cometa 2016

Don’t get yourself all fired up over someones negativity. He is a grumpy and lonely old man that has probably never said or typed a positive thing in his life. Negativity is contagious if you leave yourself open to it and he is just the kind of aggressive cancer that can take hold of you if you let him. I just ignore his juvenile games and continue to enjoy these forums and share something positive when I can.

I ordered one. I’m not a zoomie or super thrower type user but, it was hard to pass up at the price. Of course it now says it’s back ordered. Which is fine. It will get here when it gets here. I am in no hurry. I also don’t care if it’s a clone of a clone or stolen parts from someone else. That is just the way it goes in China. They all do it everyday. Just makes prices cheaper because now there is some competition. Just think of all the C8’s running around, all of them a copy of the original.

T18, you have yourself a good day and don’t sweat the little things. Tom Tom is definitely one of the little things.

“Now with that off my chest………”

I was wondering when you would respond to his all of a sudden WTF 180. :sunglasses:

I had just concluded from the get go that we were basically dealing with……….

#1. Summer’s Eve - Extra Strength

#2. Tried to stave off buying interest under premises of an accumulation agenda. :money_mouth_face:

#3. To quote: “Meanwhile I regard it as entertainment, in a perverted masochistic way.”

I’m inclined it was likely just purely #1 with overtones of possible perversion mixed in. :laughing:

Btw in my best Italian……….“I asura dona regretta buying disa Cometa!!!”. It’s a great bargain indeed. Thanks for all your efforts T18!!!

Not true. He recently posted some positive things about Keithley, Fluke and LeCroy test equipment in another thread.

Ok now i agree with tom tom . This transaction hasn’t been completed till i get to twisting lights for throw and enter into full blown buyers remorse . If perchance that doesn’t occur then subtle brooding that I should’ve bought a few more might remain instead

Either way lets be not happy together ... lets fret about the possible issues and worry that we may not be happy with our purchase . Knowing all the while that it’s the only course of action we can take . Damn grumpy is hard .

Our only solice remains in the hope that when we’ve passed on someone will finally know that we had unwittingly purchased a few great lights .. ones almost as good as their Atomic Beams /nebo lights and Big Larrys .

Cometa — > In Italian I think it means ..

catch a falling star and put it in your pocket gonna start the house on fire’

LOL, you gotta stop, I was taking a swig of tea when you said that. Now I need to wipe off my monitor. :smiley:

That’s great Boaz!! . :smiley::smiley:

Now i got a mail from BG. They informed me that the Cometa is out of stock. They refunded the money (nice i already ordered leds for the host).
They told me i could buy the light from UK warehouse. Sure for 2x the price!!! This is soooo fu…… up BG!!
Do they really think we are a stupid herd of sheep? Thanks BG :+1:

What LEDs did you want to put in? The successor of the OBF that Neven is now offering on his webshop?

Hey Docc, I have bought two Cometa’s and could spare one, but shipping to Germany is 13 euro, so that would just as well double the costs, that does not help. I just mention it so if you or someone you know are by any chance coming near Amsterdam one of these days you can pick it up.

Thanks.
I will ask my uncle if he still workes a few days a month in NL (he workes for Hoya). If he is no longer working in NL i want to ask Paul for a Z1 Host (23,55€ for a Cometa is to much!). Before i spent ~24€ on a Cometa i add a few bucks and buy a Z1! Could be interesting to see the lights side by side. But i was hoping to see the Rebel Lime and the LCG H9RN side by side in the same host.

One Question off topic.
I searched BLF about a coated lens for the 1504. There was a lot of posts about the light and MEM did a custom run on lenses. . . . but all links i can find are dead or lead to nothing.
Has anybody a tip where i could get a good lens like a K9 ar coated for the 1504?

What site is everyone using for tracking? I’m not having much luck finding a working one.

Depends on the carrier. Whut’s the tracking number?

(Blank out a few numbers in the middle, though. :smiley: )

RX8637XXXXXCN

Thanks Lightbringer

United States

  • Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

    Oct 18, 2018 11:54

  • Processed Through Facility

    Oct 18, 2018 11:16

  • Processed Through Facility

    Oct 07, 2018 15:38

  • Origin Post is Preparing Shipment

    Oct 07, 2018 15:38

  • Acceptance

    Oct 06, 2018 17:20

    —————-/

China

  • Arrival at Sorting Center

    Oct 18, 2018 11:16

  • Despatch from Sorting Center

    Oct 07, 2018 20:10

  • Despatch from Sorting Center

    Oct 07, 2018 02:56

  • Despatch from Sorting Center

    Oct 07, 2018 20:10

  • Posting

    Oct 06, 2018 17:20

Hmm, that’s a stumper. Try track.trackingmore.com, or track24.ru . Might be ChinaPost, but ain’t sure.

If you pop it into one of those, they’ll often have clues as to the actual carrier (the canaio, postnl, etc., website).

Wellp, I finally got my first order, played with it, seems nice. No spacers/insulators at either the driver or tailswitch.

No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There’s always a boom tomorrow…

Still, it’s pretty bright, dunno if it’s 1300lm based on ceiling-bounce, but it could be the cell I used for testing (kinda old, ain’t sweating it).

I hate the Bat Signal, though. Always did, not a fault of the light itself, just the nature of the beast.

Wish I could put a stop for just a turn or two away from fully-zoomed to prevent that, leave a kind of ugly blurry rounded-square instead of a speckled image of a lit chip.

All in all, it’d makes a decent host, but even leaving it as-is (got the 3B, nice tint), it’s a nice light. For the price, it’s a steal.

Hmm, maybe I should get a dozen, sell them to unsuspecting widows and orphans. :smiling_imp:

I put an o ring (30mm ?) on the batt. tube right at/below the zooming threads. ...Just the results you want.

The best emitter to swap in to this light is available now

Cas Vegas.

Took mine with me to rural France, where i am now.
Just reassembled it as is.
Al works well, and the black parts inside the head make for a clean beam without rings, unlike my Brinyte B158B…
More lumens and considerably more heat than the Brinyte which runs a neutral warmish old stock XP-G2 on 3 Amperes.
The Brinyte outthrows the Cometa of course (no surprise).
Despite the switch boot hugging the switch button, no problems whatsoever with the Cometa.

I ordered some brand spanking new Osram #####.TG LEDs from Led4power, i’ll try one in the Cometa with a FET CC driver at 4 - 4.5 Amperes.
Should be fun! :sunglasses: