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

Fookin ell , that’s a big list.

Yes +1
Amazing work Mr. Scott…… :+1:

Thanks a ton Scott!

I just got the OP updated with the latest specs (thanks to copy/pasting from DEL’s post) and info for the GT and the final list. So no more having to search through multiple places to find your name. Just go to the first page of this thread and use Ctrl + F to search for your user name.

The OP of this thread is mainly for pre-purchase information, all the post-purchase information will be in the Support thread here: BLF GT official support thread [FAQ updated 11 Jan 2018]

One thing I do want to add to the OP are some of the best beamshots and pictures of the GT. So if anyone feels like collecting the best pictures, feel free to send them to me and I will add them to the OP as I have time.

Same goes for good videos of the GT, I will add them as well.

If anyone knows of something else that should be in the OP, please feel free to speak up.

I cut it down drastically as there was just WAY too much information to process. I want to keep it manageable now that the lights are in production and the details are set.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I’ll try this again. I think it got lost with all the posts on “LED color”

Jason, Just want to be sure I understand what you said above. Are you saying that those who ordered multiple lights at the same time and are above #555 would theoretically get all the lights they ordered at the same time (sequentially) in the same shipment?

Based on that, I am 818, 819 and 886. One batteryless light arrived yesterday. Should I have maybe got two - the 818 and 819 yesterday instead of 1? And maybe the third, 886 is waiting on the reflector backlog? Seems kind of strange if multiple orders after List #555 are supposed to ship at the same time. This coupled with the light arriving in only the inner box (no outer box) gets me to thinking that maybe something has happened to the rest of my shipment in transition from DHL to USPS?

Would each light have a separate tracking number?

I got a solid black switch boot. Is there anything set up yet to ask for a translucent replacement?

The shipping order is something we have ZERO control over, we are purely observers.

If you paid for all 3 lights, then they will all be shipped. In what order? We have no idea. I would assume that if one shipped, they all shipped though since they have to be running out of US orders to ship by now.

FYI, just because 2 boxes shipped at the same time, doesn’t mean they will be delivered at the same time. I have had countless experiences with major difference in delivery times with packaged shipped at the same time.

OK, thank you!

Very impressive. Thank you!

Thanks, that’s plenty of fun ahead anyway. I’m not going on any search and rescue night op any time soon - hopefully. :wink:

So now someone is passing out link and password on Facebook…

Thats just great, got a link you can PM me (please don’t post it)? We will have to shut it down and cancel all the recent orders if that is the case. Just what we needed.

So thanks to whoever it is that posted it, everyone will have their links canceled and we will have to resend the links out along with a lot of extra time canceling orders and sorting through this if many people saw it.

Just pmed it

This guy is a tool. Edit: The sharer of course, not josh.

j0sh - thanks for spotting this and letting us know.

:+1: :+1: +2

just make stock GT to zero in order page.

And change pass to next payment. If someone need link to batt or donation, they just can ask m4dm4x or team.

Comparison, GT with CW XHP-35 vs. GT with WW XHP-35, very cloudy night, light sprinkle coming down….64ºF with 75% humidity. Water tower is (still) 1.9 miles away. This time I set the 2 second timer on the camera and held the light about 8’ away to the right of the camera so the beam shot isn’t looking down the beam of light.

Base shot, (all 3 shots are with the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens at 200mm, ISO1600, f/4.0, 0.5 sec in manual focus from the 5D MkIV, Med Jpg SOOC)

CW

WW

I have 8 matched LG M25 18650 cells with solder blobs, I used one carrier from my light with the rear 4 in the WW GT, used the empty WW carriers in the rear of each light. So each light is running on 4 matched LG M25 cells.

Thanks for the info, someone else sent me this screen shot.

Well, thanks to this user everyone that placed an order today will have their orders canceled and the link will be disabled, meaning that everyone that got the link legitimately will also have their links disabled.

We will try to figure out how to send a new link for those legitimately on the list at a later date. For now, the order page is closed (well as soon as martin wakes up that is, please don’t try to order before it closes, that is just more work to cancel the order).

Should be able to link his name to his blf account and shun him
And cancel his order if it has not already been shipped, passing it on to another lucky member

I never support publicly dox’ing people, even if they deserve it.

If he is found on BLF, it will be handled behind the scene.

Use him as a lesson of what not to do.

His post included a picture of blf gt beam so I would assume he already received it…