BLF GT official support thread [FAQ updated 11 Jan 2018]

Hi,
does anyone know, if Sanyo NCR20700B does fit into battery carrier and GT Tube?
Thanks a lot.

No, they are too big.

LOVE this thread! Very very well laid out. Thank you guys so much for all your work on this!

Is anyone able to tell a difference in light output between normal high and turbo? I can’t but I figure it would be more apparent at long distance vs the small room I am checking in.

The output difference is very minor and hard to notice unless you go directly from the top of the ramp to turbo.

If your batteries are low, then the driver will have dropped out of regulation and there will in fact be no difference in output.

I can tell a difference when it’s sitting on the end of my lumen tube :slight_smile:

I just noticed something. In the modes group if I set moon mode to the lowest setting it doesn’t work. It basically makes the light be a double click to turn on. Was this on purpose?

I believe your talking about the moon level 1 to 7?

Level 1 is not guaranteed to work. It depends on the particular emitter whether it will light up or not. This was also true of the Q8. It’s also why level 3 was set as default as it should be more likely to light up, yet still be fairly dim.

I think you will find that your light will also not light up in moon mode in the ramping setting.

The only way to access moon mode in ramping is to turn the light on by a press and hold and then quickly release the button before it starts to ramp up.

BTW, ramping only goes down to the equivalent of level 3 moon mode.

Cool, that actually makes sense. I will mention that in my vid. Thanks again!

Your vids are hilarious, especially that opening scene in the vid in the OP (some acting skillz!). Always appreciated. Am looking forward to your XHP70.2 mod vid. May want to get a second one for that purpose

Thanks Team btw. What an amazing effort, from inception to development, and now support. I’m honored to be part of this great community. (I signed up on BLF, after lurking for a while, just to get on the GT groupbuy [and many groupbuys later…ouch]).

“Keep On Luxing” and “May The Lux Be With You” © (by my very self)

This link would be usefull under

• Why is my luxmeter …

- readings at different distances:

Jason, I noticed @ 1:50 in your light make the same glass popping noise mine does… About every ten minutes mine will do that LOL!

I’m not sure if it affects NarsilM, but in RampingIOS one of the things I fixed was a race condition of some sort which could occasionally corrupt the eeprom. I don’t recall the details exactly, but the patch is in the repository. I think I changed it to A) use library functions instead of direct register access, B) disable interrupts while saving, and C) erase before writing instead of vice-versa. I haven’t heard any prior reports of anything like this for NarsilM though, so perhaps the issue was only in RampingIOS v1.

Yep…. that is the exact same sound mine makes too. :+1:

Great video also Jason, thank you! It answered in a simple to understand way what I was trying to figure out in the blinking modes. :slight_smile:
A huge help……. :+1:

Here is my take on the UI :slight_smile:

A lowe case fits the GT

https://store.lowepro.com/lens-case-13-x-32cm

Great video! Added to the OP.

Hi there,

I would like to purchase the BLF GT Giggles as well as the Samsung batteries mentioned. Is there another waiting list available to be put on or is it available to purchase right away?

Thank you in advance,

Joann :slight_smile:

Hi and welcome joann. The group buy on this light has expired. Undoubtedly when the orders for the group buy are fulfilled the light will be available to purchase from re sellers.

I’m sorry, but it is not available for sale right now. Existing orders are still being fulfilled. Once the light goes for sale to the public, Madmax might have a sale on them.

You can send him a PM, personal message, and ask if he will notify you when he puts them up for sale.
http://budgetlightforum.com/messages/new/11225?destination=user/11225

It may be a couple of months, though.