BLF GT Design

You would be surprised what “professional search and rescue” means. Generally things like flashlights are left up to the “man on the ground” to get for themselves save for maybe a cheap light or a old school “lantern”.

Same with cops, firefighters ect. They are pretty much on their own when it comes to this type of equipment and generally wholly under equipped due to not having the funds to spend on good tools.

Heck most of the cops around me, even though they are some of the best paid and top cops in the country, still have nothing more then a basic ~50-100 lumen AA powered flashlight. If that in many cases, I know some that use the 9 led jobs from walmart!

I could actually see this light being very popular with “professionals” from all walks of life form police to firefighters to search and rescue (which is usually a combo of the prior ones) to farmers and more.

Then go all-out on the knurling, like this!

lmao

omfg, FLASHLLIGHT AND POTATO, what a time to be alive
this is REVOLUTION in FLASHLIGHT INDUSTRY

Can we make it an EDC thrower?, LOL

actually i like the Design 2 most, it looks tough, the design 1 look smooth and easily slipping. The weight of the flashlight will makes it become nightmare

They are all too low. I have brought this up in the GT thread, and I was told that, even though they are technically useless, they won’t be moved or added to. I can’t live with a ‘technically incorrect’ light so I had to vote against it.
The design looks purposeful, but I was a fan of 5ar’s from day one.

Sure they could get moved, this is just a planning stage of what the general style will be.
I can guarantee you it will not end up looking exactly like any of these designs.

Also, they are not useless, just because fins are not directly beside the heat source does not mean they are useless.
Heat is conducted through aluminum, go look at the heat maps done on the light.

Sure they could get moved, this is just a planning stage of what the general style will be.
I can guarantee you it will not end up looking exactly like any of these designs.

Also, they are not useless, just because fins are not directly beside the heat source does not mean they are useless.
Heat is conducted through aluminum, go look at the heat maps done on the light.

Since my vote of design 4 makes no difference I voted for design 5 which was my first choice.

Voted for 3 like 1 as well. Can believe 3 is not getting more love! Whatever is decided she will be beautiful on the inside. Lol

For how much time will the voting going to be open? Design 1 and 2 are neck to neck…!!!

If they are this close, I don’t think we will make a concrete decision yet.
Saying “this one won by 2 votes so this is what everyone gets” would not be very nice…
I think all the designs can be improved, and if anything we should get more information on which is cheaper/easier to manufacture, has more features, tweak the renders a little, etc…
And then do a repoll in a few weeks/months with only the top two designs.

I like design number 1 the most, the “danish dynamite”

Voted for 1, but indeed needs some knurling on the handle to make it perfect.

Ummm no - I was told unequivocally that the fins won’t be changed. And maybe I used “useless” a bit loosely, but in my opinion if they are going to be there they may as well straddle the hottest area, rather than flail underneath :weary:

I don’t think it needs more knurling, it’s got a baseball bat nub on the end. If Yoenis can hang on to this bat without letting it fly into the seats, we could certainly hang onto a friggin flashlight :smiley:

Where? I don’t see any posts from you in the recent two pages?
Is this from farther back?

Big congratulation to all the designers, amazing work guys !!

I voted for design no1 because I think it has something very “special”, proportions are so beautifully balanced …
And it doesn’t remind me of any other flashlights.
I also agree that a few tweaks could be made, especially around the fin area.

+1 or really I mean –1
I’ll pull out as well if either of them win

Further back. Conversation regarding fins starts at post #2004.