My Dad showing the massive GT against his new (birthday present) Q8…
Easily far and away the largest flashlight in my collection (only some of which is represented here)
And of course, who’s surprised I already got into mine and made changes? The centering ring is actually a single large piece of what appears to be Delrin, with holes cut in the black plastic to clear the hold down screws going through the MCPCB, this keeps the centering ring stable and is well done, nice attention to detail…
The full copper MCPCB is DTP and has standard thermal paste under it, the pattern shows the inprint of the pressure the two screws provided…
The driver, as fleshed out by TA and DEL, virtually bulletproof in this application and heavily tested for our satisfaction and ease of mind…
And a couple of comparisons, to the BTU Shocker and the even larger Olight SR90 Intimidator. Added a shot with the Shocker and a Convoy L6. I guess the Intimidator is now the one forced into some timidity….
I got into it the same day I got it, swapped the warm 4000K XHP-35 for a whiter version more to my liking.
Thanks Lumintop, excellent job on this… and thanks again to the team that provided vigilance to ensure everything about it was to our liking…. well done!
Any idea when those in the 1st to 576th spot who DID order batteries will ship? If I had known that including cells would result in a shipping delay, I might have ordered without. Oh well. I mean, let’s be honest here, I don’t need this light at all!
Everyone at blf thought they would be shipped by order of purchased. We were surprised that they were instead grouped together by region. We assume it was a way to save money, save time, and get a lot of lights out quickly.
As for the lights with batteries, I do not know. Neal has been pretty busy and not given much info. It will probably be TA that gets ahold of him. When he does, I’ll post up any new info.
Happy new year everybody
Thank you for hardworking of the BLF GT team and everyone that makes this project come true
I hope next year we can make something even BIGGER than this, maybe BLF GF( blf giga flood) that outthrow the brightest commercial flashlight
UPDATES: It appears that the first couple of shipments are going out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid for cost reasons. Initial quality has been fantastic.
The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 23. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 576th person on the paid list that did not include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th.
There should be a European order going out in January.
The next group to purchase lights (#1000 and up on the list) will get their emails mid January instead of early January in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.
Whew! Had me going there for a minute! It was stated previously that the images taken shining the GT on the radio tower in Pennsylvania were in 0º weather with 90% humidity. That really stumped me, as I thought water in the air should be frozen at that temperature. Sure enough, in zero degree weather the air’s capacity to hold moisture is 10% or lower.
So, the truthful answer to the question of humidity interfering with the GT’s beam in those shots should be that the air had snow in it or was less than 10% humidity.
Edit: It should be declared that I know squat about 0º air temps. I’ve ridden my 750 to work in 12º weather before and worked outdoors, but that was a very rare situation here. Thus my confusion about humidity and zero degree temps. Thanks for bearing with me…
Oh, and the chart I posted is based on Celsius, so it would need a –17.7 degree C rating to equal a zero here in the States.
They also don’t like us doing them either. Everytime we have tried to share it over there the thread is locked inside a few hours even though it gets a great response over there.
For the record, I removed the head of my GT and de-soldered the negative lead from the board, soldered in an 18GA loop so I could test actual emitter amperage. At the top of the ramp it is getting 1.93A, by double clicking to Turbo it is getting 2.45A.
My light box shows 2049 lumens. I do not know the actual binning of the emitter I swapped in, but I do intend to buy a replacement of known binning.
The centering ring is actually a single large piece of what appears to be Delrin, with holes cut in the black plastic to clear the hold down screws going through the MCPCB, this keeps the centering ring stable and is well done, nice attention to detail…
