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

I’m just concerend as i never received any email confirmation or anything when i sent payment & placed order. (zero reply or email) I used to always get some kind of email confirmation from the seller. nothing now for a month. Everyone else here say they got a email confirmation or something when they place their order.

Should not it be 20%?
Yours is like below 10% boost to Turbo.

Add me to the list please.

Hi I’m new in BLF. Can I still count? I’m in please :smiley:

No, at that upper limit of output, 20% more current only gives a tiny bit more output. Most of the extra current gets turned to heat.

Keep in mind that ceiling bounce with this light is not so accurate.

I wonder how many new members have signed up due to wanting to buy the GT…?

Would be interesting to get some stats.

On another note -
If I have not missed the group buy, please add me for a 2nd! (Already have some modding ideas…)
If I have missed it…
Well I will just have to be patient then. :wink:

Already charging up 8 NCR18650Bs in anticipation for arrival of my GT sometime later this month!

Thanks everyone.

John.

Wow, that is impressive, I had similar experience when lighting up the towers near me. I went out planning on shining it at one of them, and then swung it around to the other and was surprised when it lit up.

Yep, the GT is huge.

I can post the CAD for the centering ring I am using if you can print it off.

This is why we settled on 2A and 2.5A. The difference between them is hard to see with the human eye and going even further to 3A has an even smaller effect.

Wife comes into master while I’m shaving.
“You just got something important, I had to sign for it.”
Thanks honey.
I run to do some errands, get my mind off it still being light out. (arrived in 2 days to my home from Hong Kong. Way to go DHL, that’s insane)

Setup camera on tripod to do an unboxing video. I unboxed, assembled and then shot it across our lake sized retention pond here in FL. It was a ridiculously easy test for this light, not even fun.

So I go into the bedroom where my 6 year old daughter and wife are brushing teeth. I’m holding the flashlight behind me and tell them. Hey, I was on a forum and blah, blah, blah. The name of this flashlight is “Giggles”. I pull it from behind my back and let me tell you the name is worthy of the looks I got. They both jumped out of bed to see it shine across the “lake”. But it was a joke. So I told them I was going on a drive to see if I could find a place to shine it.

That part was hard. I was headed to a sod farm but didn’t make it. I found a dark area with a tower and stopped to see what that would look like. I played with the light a few minutes, took a few really lame photos and then the light died. I’m not surprised. I was using whatever juice they showed up with.

Right now they’re on my Nitecore charger which only has 2 bays. So it’s likely going to be tomorrow for me to setup a tripod and try to take some proper photos for everyone. One thing that’s obvious is that I’ll need a fast shutter and slow aperture.

You cannot hold this thing for long away from the body. It’s definitely heavy. I’ll try to figure out photos and upload what I can to help people who are still waiting.

Only .25 miles for my first test.

135 yards from my porch

I am waiting to send out anymore PM’s until all the existing orders are (almost) complete. So not to worry, there will not be any cutting in line.

Now the next set of PM’s could be a first come, first served basis if we should happen to sell all 1500 but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.

There are only a few hours left till the GB closes. Say 3 hours so it ends at midnight central standard time.

In for a second GT please

This is normal due to the laws of diminishing returns as power increases. Remember we are already twice the rated power at 2A.

Current boost from 2A to 2.5A right? So it is 25% boost of current, no?
Ya, i understand the curve of efficiency. I thought GT percentage of output is calibrated to match real lumen output in design phase. But i didn’t follow GT development closely.

I would like one please if still open. Tried to read the rules best I could. Apologies in advance for any n00b moves :wink: Thank you

As soon as the order was placed you should have gotten an email or text from Paypal. Not everyone did, but when they logged into their paypal account, the transaction was there.

Most people also got an email from Neal to confirm their phone number. Some didnt, but it’s no big deal.

So check your PayPal account to make sure the transaction is there. If so, you are good to go.

I got mine today, I have no use for a light like this, not in the least disappointed that I bought it though.

Here’s a picture with my oldest Lumintop light for scale.

Please put in in the list for another one if it is not closed.

northbeard…. Clear things up.

Did you get an “email saying to pay” ’OR’ a PM (Personal Message) here on BLF saying to pay??

There is a big difference. Which did you get asking for payment??
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Edit…… It appears all is well northbeard. . :slight_smile:

Saying it kind of stinks for the people that have yet to find out about the light only have a couple hours to sign up