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

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.

No info about the hid. Just ask him.

I asked for community contributions.
the CC auto-translated are too bad :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m not finding my springs to weak. I am finding, due to the amount of ‘button top’ actually sticking above the white insulating washer & the clear wrapping; it is a close fit between making contact on the positive battery end AND not making contact.

The battery carriers are just fine.

If one has a problem…… it will be with “short” button tops.

Probably a good idea to check carrier voltage if in doubt.

Oh wow…A FB post with a link to buy…? That’s hardcore, hopefully it didn’t go viral… Was the link changed or deleted at the source rather than just from FB?

Does this now effect the new list of people wanting the BLFGT?

good morning all!

the password has been changed already - but since Neal DOES doublecheck EVERY SINGLE ORDER he will notice any stinky order ;)

about the Video from Julian:
he got a "advertising sample" planned long ago for the german market

delivering the flashlights to the participants of the groupbuy are not affected!
the time delays are due to production problems and improved quality control...

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his account has been deactivated - in my opinion: if he cannot read, he should not post.

It shouldn’t change much. A few orders might need to be canceled. Madmax will have to redo a lot of things. New PM and passwords will need to go out to existing people who have not bought theirs yet. Then maybe another new password for when the next group of people are sent purchasing info. I don’t really know all the details, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Things are in good hands.

Thanks Dale for taking the great effort doing these shots and thanks Sirius for the mouse-over version that makes comparison very easy .

Obviously people who judge this comparison will prefer the cool white led because in the pictures it clearly lights up the target better. As effort is made by Dale to make the comparison as equal as possible it makes sense to get this opinion which contradicts the ‘Giggles’ team who tells us that the 4000K leds will light up the target better.

But there’s two observations that I have about this picture set that makes me unsure about using this comparison to determine my opinion of which tint is best:

1) as already pointed out, the white balance seems not equal over those two images, as is easiest judged by the light coming from the streetlamp in front of that house.
2) the difference in illumination on the the hedge, trees and water tower between the two pictures is huge, I estimate it even maybe a factor 2. Much more than one or two output bins or a tint difference could cause.

So perhaps the camera, even though everything was set on manual, may have done things automatically after all?

I like the Bottom one

is one of those lights the GT?

Have a look at the original photos and it is obvious the white balance is playing a part in this. The light in the porch of the house changes colour and I cant get over how much more spill one tint is giving considering the grass in the forefront is lit up in one and not the other.

Sure it’s a great example but I can’t see them as like for like examples because they are clearly different. THANKS though. seriously. I’m not ungrateful.

I used a couple nail files, one to depress and hold the bottom coils of the springs, the other file in-between the upper coils of the springs. I then stretched carefully to extend the coils. This made the spring overall height about 1/8" taller, providing more pressure against the battery. That in-turn has more force pushing the button "top" to make better contact. The 35E added buttons are a bit small, and low profile. IIRC, the GT was planned to have protected button tops as/per Lumintop specs. I can only assume this is the answer why the non-protected tops do not have the spec'd length. Your use of words are clearer than my short, non-descriptive choice of what little I presented myself with. Which made me think, make more sense ARsee. Sorry everyone for being vague. This was not intentional. I have a problem with word input oops

I still plan on solder blobbing the tops for better electrical contact, and spring pressure. With my carriers, when I rotate them with the 35E batteries installed, some of them fall right out. This can't be good.

1 ask Thomas King to call the names of the people he PMed on Facebook. He knows who he send the link and password.

2 the 4000k led was used because there were no other more nw leds available. So if you don’t like it, change it to a ledcolor of your choice.

No, the Lumintop batteries they were going to offer were unprotected.

The carriers were designed to handle both protected and unprotected. That is 65mm to 70mm. A 5mm difference and the springs can only compress maybe 7mm? So Lumintop got them just right. :+1:

nitecore p-30
tn42 nw
blf gt

that may or may not be the order :slight_smile:

if thats the case im a happy flashaholic :smiley: :+1:

I’m saying the order is this… top to bottom.

  • Nitecore P30
  • BLF GT
  • TN42 NW

Yep

Nitecore P-30

BLF GT WOW (WarmOrangeyWhite) :smiley:

TN42 NW