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

MAYBE YOU MISSED THIS BLANE……
This means you too………

It is the low height of the button tops.
I was worried about the 35E when I saw them. They just barely make contact condidering how much (little) button top is proud of the insulating washer & clear re-wrap.

Fabulous write-up DB. Thank you for that great info!

Ok, I was a little angry with him many pages of comments ago.

I made this comment many pages of comments ago when it was first revealed what had happened.

Another way to look at the color temp is like 0 degree centigrade is the freezing point of water, it also just happens to be the melting point as well. Since 4000k is the dividing point between neutral and warm white, I see no issue in naming it warm. 3999 is warm white while 4000 k is neutral white, but there is no way I can tell the difference between them. Just my thoughts and ramblings. Cheers!

Thanks for the info. I will do just that.

Everyone should check for this when they first install their batteries. All these button top pieces are added on by different companies, so there is not always consistency.

I think you have the small diameter button tops.

The button top gap:

In your case, we’re the button tops different heights or were the carrier gaps different heights?

I’ve got wide button tops (raised flat tops from Banggood) in my 30Q and they fit pretty well.

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Honor, Gratitude and Respect. It’s truly a privilege and an honor to participate in the BLF goodness. Thanks y’all! Please keep at it!

Sun, 01/07/2018 - 23:59 ……… #14828

Dude, you made your post 32 minutes & 7 posts before the first quoted one above.
Not “pages ago”…….

No big deal now…. but no use making it sound like when it was not.

Your original post in question is below….

Sun, 01/07/2018 - 23:27 ………. #14821

German review. I am wondering how he got his hands on it.

Maybe he accidentally left auto white balance on, or his camera didn’t fully shut it off.
The camera is compensating for the cooler white beam by making the image in general warmer in the first pic and then making the image cooler in the second pic to compensate for the warmer GT temperature.
The light on the house is obviously constant and the same in real life, it’s just the colours are slightly different in the two pics.
The point of that comparison was not really how cold or warm one is compared to the other, but rather how bright it seems.

This is true. It is a sliding scale.
There is nothing that says it must be neutral if it is 4000 and it must be warm if it is 3999.
I am sure everyone here agrees that 4000k is extremely warm for an LED flashlight.
5000-5700k is more neutral, neither yellow nor blue.
Of course the different proportions of cone cells in people’s eyes make the definition very unclear as well.

few diff tint shots, to add to the tint confusion here ! lol !
door color is a creamy off white in real life
probably needs a good cleaning!

which 1 is the best :smiley:

I plan to solder blob all the 35E button tops because (IMO) the carrier springs are too weak

Yes… I would agree 100% with this statement.
Thank you for making it…… :+1:

crap, sure wish i knew what he was saying ! :+1:
darn good video though for sure
wonder what kind of lux that diy hid was kickin out ?

I don’t think he mixed up the pictures but he used auto white balance. On the control shot the house appears to be white because the camera adjusts the white balance to something like 2700 - 3200 K - that is the colour temperatur of the light illuminating the building. On the CW shot the camera adjusts the white blanace to higher Kelvin values probably around the colour temperatur of the CW LED - maybe to 5500 - 6500 K?? The result is that the building now appears yellow cause it is still illuminated by the 2700 - 3200 K light source. On the NW (WW) shot the camera adjusts the white balance to around 4000 K I would guess. The result is that the building only has a slight yellow hue and doesn’t appear as yellow as on the CW shot.

I would have loved to see the comparsion shots with a fixed white balance at maybe 5700 K - could that be the temprature of sunlight around midday with clear sky in Texas? Well, it doesn’t matter cause I don’t have a calibrated monitor anyway.
The pictures show that the GT hits the tower 1.9 miles away in stock form and modded with a CW emitter and thats awesome. Thanks for the pictures Dale. But people should just wait till their GT arrives and try it - what you see on your display is not what you will see in real life.

On a site note, for me a black body is the opposit of snow - it absorbs all visible light, snow reflects it.

Trick question??? :smiley:
To me the top one without a doubt. :slight_smile:
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Edit… Or it could be the bottom one if that… is the actual color of the door.

For sure the ORANGE JELLO one is out. :smiley:

Nah, maybe you mean it’s on the extremely warm side of neutral white? I agree with that.

“Extremely warm” looks very yellow.

It depends on application.
Shining no.2 at distanced trees or in the jungle will be most comfortable.
No. 1 is good for office paper work.
No. 3 looks good on trees and grass fields or jungles too.