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

There aren’t any plans for a short tube, but maybe once production gets caught up (in Feb or March?) Lumintop might consider it along with spare drivers and spare mcpcb’s. For right now they are just focused on making the lights and selling them.

Ps, everyone that has used the short tube has said it’s very unbalanced and adds strain to your wrist. This is why the long tube was chosen for production versions.

Sounds good to me. :smiley:

It’s nice to see this thread slowing down. I guess when people start getting shipping notices it will get crazy again, like with the Q8 thread.
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Nvanlaar’s links for page 367.

The Millers Original List ending on Nov 11 and #1213

Coyotehawk’s Continuation of the Group Buy List, starting Nov 11 and #1214 - Updated Dec 12

Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for first 555 - Updated Dec 8
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M4D M4X: For all people who want to let us know the value that should be declared on the parcels:
please take the BLF GT customs declaration survey

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Samsung 35E seem ideal, high mAh and good amps.
M4D M4X is doing a groupbuy, here: GROUPBUY: 8pcs Samsung 35E BUTTON TOP for the BLF GT

List Updated - Click to view latest list of names

Yep…… :+1:

And you putting this info on every page and people maybe hopefully doing a little reading before asking has help too.

Great idea Jason!!!

Nice, great job!

Now we need Neal to send an updated list when he gets a chance.

1 paid for….and can you put me down for a 2nd pls? :smiley:

And Miller, whats happened to him? :frowning:

Would it be possible for Neal to post which lights got shipped before his vacation? I am moving January 3rd and the list would help me know what arrangements to make, if necessary.

Stellar job Coyotehawk!!! . :+1: . :beer:

Those neoprene lens covers look spot on.
Unfortunately on Amazon UK they are $25 as opposed to the $7 they are on Amazon US :frowning:

:open_mouth: . :person_facepalming: … Wow… they give you guys no love……. :person_facepalming: . :open_mouth:

Ain”t that the truth :person_facepalming:
I have been looking on the Chinese sites but have not found any suitable & am not willing to pay a quarter of the price of the GT for a lens cap.

Yeah… that sux!!! :cry:
I’d use duct tape before I paid that…… :person_facepalming:
Good luck……. :+1: … :wink:

Unknown…. He was alive on 5 December, that has been verified. The quotes below are the last publicly known info that has been shared here on BLF……
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Tue, 12/05/2017 - 17:16 ……… Post #10262

We have a $1000 limit here in Australia before tax.
I have NEVER had a problem with the seller altering the value for me .
Never paid a cent in tax EVER.

Talk to who ever is sending it and ask for a favor.
Never had anybody say NO.

Apple, Google, Coke and about 50 other companies and most of our politicians pay NO TAX here in Australia… Why should little ol me then .

Ok, so today I stole a few minutes to install the XHP70.2 80CRI 4000k in the V2 prototype. HM440H model for anyone interested.

I LOVE THIS LED!

This LED looks SO much better then the 4000k 70CRI that was in it before. It is a lower bin and it lost some output but not as much as I would have thought. Still easily as bright as an XHP70 except without as much of a dark spot and with 80cri.

I tried a few different sized centering rings. Throw readings showed a peak of ~440kcd (vs ~450kcd for the 70cri) with a 2mm centering ring.

Although I am going to print up a new centering ring that is ~4mm tall since manual focusing shows that around there throw only drops to ~430kcd yet the dark spot virtually disappears. WELL worth the trade off.

So what do I end up with?

A ~6000 lumen (possibly more since the throw readings are so close to the 70CRI @ 7000 lumens) 80CRI 4000k 1300m+ throw GT with corona tint shift hardly worse then the stock XHP35.

This light will be keeping this setup for sure, it is fantastic! I would never have guessed that the 80cri version would have this kind of improvement in the tint shift issues. I still don’t know why but it has very little tint shift (not perfect but only slightly worse then the XHP35 that comes stock once focused).

I expect that slicing the dome would have similar results to the 70CRI version with ~1600m+ of throw but I am not willing to risk another $10 LED to find out right now, maybe if I get board or feel lucky later.

Or if someone wants to donate an LED to the cause I can put it on the sphere to test the output and try slicing the dome to see those results as well.

my input into the list , I ordered 1 flashlights

Is this still at the higher than recommended 6A or the recommended 5A?

Hey, post 11k.

You want to be added to the list for 1 light, correct?

You should be getting your PM, personal message, in early January with all the details on how to pay.