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

ok, we need beamshots, and lux numbers ASAP !!

a VERY NW emitter to boot.
it makes my other nw lights look cool white

UPDATES: It appears that the first shipment went 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. DHL shipping was very fast.

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.


BLF GT official support thread


Nvanlaar’s links.

The Millers Original Group Buy List ending on Nov 11 and #1213

Coyotehawk’s Continuation of the Group Buy List, starting Nov 11 and #1214 - Updated Dec 27

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Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for first 555 - Updated Dec 15

Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for #556 to #1038 - Updated Dec 10 or 12.

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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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M4D M4X: You can buy 8 of the button top Samsung 35E batteries (seem ideal, high mAh and good amps) for $40 when you buy your GT. No sign up required for these.
Battery details are here.
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Video of Drop Test

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While I greatly appreciate the mention by pepinfaxera a few posts back & the mention by TA the other day…… I am not a team member & have only answered a few questions, trying to help out; when the opportunity was there to do so. :slight_smile:

Don’t forget though……

  • sb
  • Mr. Scott
  • JasonWW

Here are 2 beam shots in my usual location.

That hotspot is tiny compared to the L6 with xhp50.2 and xhp70.2. I’m also surprised by how big the corona is.

Please put me on the list for another :slight_smile:

Wow, like a moon. :+1: :+1:

While admiring our GTs shortly after unboxing, my friend wondered how the tailcap and its spinning lanyard ring worked. I don’t recall seeing photos of it disassembled.

As I mentioned earlier, mine was much more difficult to turn than my friend’s. It certainly was not ‘twirlable’ like the prototype in VOB’s video.

Click play to watch the section of Matt’s video that shows the tailcap lanyard ring.

1,290,000 CD Flashlight, Budget Light Forum Giga-Thrower! - YouTube got the best of me today, and I decided to find out how the tailcap was constructed, and why mine was hard to spin.

Click the photos to embiggen.

The sticker inside the tailcap hides four blind holes. The scratches are my fault.

I used my small needle nose pliers to loosen the inner piece. It’s reverse threaded.

The tailcap is made of three parts and two o-rings.

The large piece has an o-ring that the spinning ring slides along.

The o-ring was not seated properly in the groove and was partially pinched. I had removed and reinstalled it before these photos.

I removed both o-rings, lubricated them, and reinstalled them.

After reassembling the tailcap, my lanyard ring spins much easier. I think it has just the right amount of resistance.

I reinstalled the sticker inside the tailcap to help protect the anodizing and to further insulate the rear carrier.

Hahaa did you not read what T/A said about LUX numbers?

The LED in the GT is overdriven already. It is run at 2.5A in turbo which is about as high as is practical before rapidly diminishing returns.

You could swap the sense resistor and raise it to 3A if you really wanted but you would only gain a small amount for the first little bit until the LED heated up.

The biggest reason for the lower readings then other lights is that the GT is using a Neutral white 4000k emitter vs the CW ~6500k emitter in most other lights.

The lux meters we use are biased to the cooler white range and will artificially inflate those numbers.

The stock LED is a D4 bin. The highest bin that Cree lists in the data sheet is E2, which is 1 bin above D4. Or about 7% higher output. So 7% higher is about the most you can expect with another LED, everything else should be the meter bias.

So my LUX numbers are pretty meaningless since they are CW now and not NW. :person_facepalming:

Too freaking cold for beamshots, but I’ll see what I can do once the temp gets back above zero one of these nights! I do have to travel a bit to the country to get good ones :wink: :+1:

Goshdogit, those are some top notch pics there. Very professional looking. :+1:

Perhaps our Dear Leader could change the owner of the first post in this thread from The Miller to the team account?

Iam extremely happy with my light cannon,last night here on new years eve i set my lights on strobe and i got some unexpected attention from order patrol who must have seen my lights striving while on patrol and they lot me up briefly I kindly waves at them and theybweny on there way

Iam extremely happy with my light cannon,last night here on new years eve i set my lights on strobe and i got some unexpected attention from order patrol who must have seen my lights striving while on patrol and they lot me up briefly I kindly waves at them and theybweny on there way

yep, i read it………

the pink elephant Easter nimny and tooth fairy all enjoyed the light

whatever happened to these battery carriers?
guess they got canned ?
sure did look nice.

Think they weren’t getting the numbers they were looking for. And narrowed it down to efficiency/passthrough/flow through the carriers.

Yes, they got canned. The extra springs under the half circle pieces added too much electrical resistance. They were probably cheaper to produce since the ends were made of plastic, but in the end the went back to their older style carrier. Similar to the one from their SD75 model seen below.


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Boredom. Made on New Years Eve. A quicky, figuratively speaking.

thats eggxactly how i would feel if i were you too ! :smiley:
2 funny man!