Just looked in on this thread for the first time in months after getting numerous email alerts asking me to check that I am on the list.
I am & in the first 550 :+1:
DHL will mean me paying an extra $40 on top of the $111 here in the UK as DHL charge an admin fee on top of the 20% VAT we have to pay so I will be going with the “other” shipping option
Looking forward to this light & the Q8 group buy I am in :+1:
Sony vtc6
Samsung 30q
Edit; wrong thread The Q8 needs button top cells, but solder blobs do the job well (see Tom E his pictures above)
Panasonic ncr18650ga also will work fine, since you only need 2,5 A
We cannot buy Liion from China,except of the 4pcs samsung inr18650 30q button top,with protected box,which I ordered today after a post from BLFer Elvic.
Unfortunately,there is not such an option for the Panasonics.If some guy can communicate with some of the BG staff,it could be possible to sell Panasonics with the protected box.
Edit.
Which type of batteries should be used,button top,or flat top?
There is one eBay.com seller(neobattery) from Greece who sells and ships batteries to most places in EU I think.
I have ordered from him couple of times and shipped within a week to Finland.
Giggles cell carriers have been updated with polarity protection. By default you will need button top cells or solder blobbed cells.
The protection can be removed if you truly want to use flat top cells and are willing to accept the risk though. Even I am going to leave it in place, it is just too easy to be absent minded and pop a cell in backwards without thinking.
Better to have a safety net in place just in case.
Personally I would pick Panasonic GA’s for Giggles, they are my go to cells for everything. If you could arrange for these to be sent with the GT that would be great.
Since nobody has tried this before so one could only guess. If the XHP70.2 is driven to 6000 lumens, I would say the the light could possibly produce 250~300kcd (1~1.1km). The throw is still impressive not to mention that with the 6000 lumens output it is just a different kind of monster. I used to owned one of these generic 85W HID flashlights purchased from Aliexpress and the throw is about 200kcd, so this BLF GT will beat these HID flashlights in every way despite that the GT has a much bigger reflector.
My Convoy L6 with a XHP70.2 P2 3B and SMO reflector does 195 kcd, but pushed hard at about 18A and 8,200 lumens @30 secs, 9,000 @turn on. Driven at lower amps in a GT, would hope it would do at least 250 kcd.