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

I am not doubting or questioning them in the least. Sorry if it sounded that way. I just would like to know why it is always aluminum. What I put out there was so someone would know what I was comparing it to. It was just something I was wondering about and this is the place that has answers.

I think you will have to be content with being in the first 850 to receive their light as well as getting it $40 cheaper than anyone else on the group buy list.

I would imagine if cost wasn’t an issue they could be made out of silver. Nothing shines like polished silver. Of course over time the silver would start tarnishing.Sigh

That is an interesting question species8472. :+1:
I’d like to know that also. And like you, my interest has nothing at all to do with the GT either. . :slight_smile:

Molds are extremely expensive to make and would have taken far longer to come to market. While the material it’s made out of is inexpensive and the polymer in the mold is also inexpensive, the mold itself needs to be paid for. The lights would have cost far more if the reflectors had been molded. It’s just economics. It woudn’t have saved money. Lumintop did it correctly IMO.

Well said Jason…… we got a heck of a deal on this Bad Boy!!
It is an amazing light!! Paying a measly $15 dollar ‘deposite’ for the privileged of getting one at the ‘first 555’ price was well worth it!!!

We were not paying a deposite for ‘preferred shipping order’.
We were paying a deposite for ‘preferred price’. :+1:

I’d fathom a guess that contributing factors for using aluminum include:
Easily machined;
decent thermal conductivity;
low cost.

I have a limited knowledge of such things, but off the cuff can’t think of any metal that combines these three elements as well as aluminum.

/\\\ Good points arficus……. :+1:

Aluminum itself has a reflectivity of about 89, silver about 91, multilayer aluminum up to 97%. .This is achieved lots of layers - typically several tens to hundreds. Silver reflects “selectively”, its reflection depends on wavelength.

I do not agree. Yes we will be happy with this light and that it gets delivered at all, and it is unjust to question that! But the remark was not about that, it was about the choice we had in shipping option without knowing that one of the two options would leave China many weeks after the other. It makes sense to be very disappointed about it. Of course the team is not to blame, but it would have made sense if someone in China had done some thinking about it.

I agree it really needs a handle or at least a good strong lanyard.
It is a very heavy flashlight.

Could there have been a bigger stronger LED in the BLF Giga thrower or not ?

+1 :+1:

Just received my GT with batteries. A big thank you to the GT team and Neal!

I guess I read it wrong then, I thought we were talking about the disappointment someone was feeling because the first 555 were not treated as “first priority”.

Of course all will be happy when their light gets delivered…. that seems a nobrainer. :+1:

Yeah… it would have been nice to know in advance if one shipping option was indeed going to have preference over another. Maybe that info was not avaiable or decided on at the time orders were taken however.

Or maybe, since Registered Mail is shipping in two boxes; there has been a slight delay in sourcing those boxes.

Who knows…… all speculation on our end anyway.

Main thing is the lights are being made & shipped as fast as LT can crank them out & maintain that EXCELLENT QUALITY we are seeing in the GT.

Sooooo……. Thank You Lumentop!!! . :slight_smile:

Bigger stronger? The xhp 70.2 will give more lumens but less throw.

I don’t think there is a led that give more lumens and throw and is easy to install using the current driver and cell setup.

If there’s a 70.2 version I nominate the name “GM”. Compromised throw, not pure flood. The Giga Mixer.

Sure, you could go bigger or smaller.

Smaller gives you longer throw with a smaller hot spot.

Bigger gives you less throw with a bigger hotspot.

The team settled on the xhp35-HI as the best compromise between long distance and a decent sized hot spot.

If you are willing to sacrifice some distance, you could go with an xhp50 or even the xhp70 (in 12 volt of course).

The GT joins the little family.
From left to right: BLF A6, BLF Q8, Imalent DX80 and the GT.
And I used to think the DX80 was a monster light :smiling_imp:

The ancient Maglite 6D joins the fray:

A shot of the reflectors. The BLF A6 is hiding between the DX80 and GT
No sign of orange peel here, but I see the slight maching marks that everyone has.

Paid deposit on August 26. Full payment plus small bonus for the team on December 2.
Number 5# on the paid list…
As far as I know there is only 2 GT’s for Serbia RS, bouth with DHL shipping.
One of those two is delivered to Sirius9 some time ago and with batteries included.
Mine is without batteries and no sign of it so far.
As I used to work for DHL I have possibility to check out if anything is currently coming to my address,but nothing so far…
I am not complaining at all just would like to know if there was some confusion over shipping to me, and maybe sent with registered instead??
Can someone from the team please ask Neal, or Lumintop since I don’t want to bother them when they have too much work to do.

Thanks
NikolaS