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

It’s 2000m, and yes there are laser-phosphor flashlights coming in 2018 that will give a lot more throw and less lumens.
It’s not an LED flashlight though, and won’t get anywhere near the same amount of lumens.

Hows about swapping reflectors? That would show if it’s the reflector that’s causing that issue or not!

Initially, yes. I suspect Lumintop tightens the big bezel before tightening the upper head to the lower “light engine”. This way they don’t have to turn the bezel against the massive friction of the huge o-ring against the glass.

So I would recommend everyone to loosen the upper head first so you take all the tension off of the reflector, glass and bezel and then it should be a lot easier to turn. Using this new technique I can take my GT apart and put it back together with my bare hands.

Here is my older post on taking it apart:

I would try and find a pair of cheap rubber strap wrenches. After loosening the bezel on mine, I hand tightened it so I would be able to remove it by hand later. Nope, it’s too tight again. I had to use the strap wrenches once more. That o-ring against the lens is a real friction freak.

The head was hard to loosen, but it’s no big deal to tighten and loosen again. No tools needed after the first loosening.

I got a 2 pack of rubber strap wrenches at my local Northern Tool store for $5. Check your local stores bargain bins where the cheap tools are.


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I made the battery carrier to take Flat Top cells. Check out what I did here : BLF GT review

No reverse polarity protection this way. Btw review is not completely finished yet.

What good is it with 500 lumen and a tiny pencil beam? I’m sure a few people would find it useful, but not the majority.

It reminds me of that little bitty LED that was smaller than the oslon black flat and it only had about 400 or so lumen. What was it called?

No messages sent yet for the third group,stay tight, You will receive it by the end of the month (supposely next week)

We can’t say for sure. It’s up to TA to decide when.

The description was copied from Acebeam. They have already fixed it. Also it was strange for me.

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Hi all,

Have looked through the threats but cannot fin it (answers).

Can someone please advise when the next production run is, and the cost of the light?

Thanks for reminding me. Anyone else with outstanding issues that I asked to wait until after the CNY, now would be the time to start reminding me about them.

You can also try sending messages to Neal directly but please, only message him if you truly have an issue that needs to be addressed, he is overloaded as it is.

I will put together a list of issues that need to be resolved and we will try to get them sorted before the next batch of PM’s.

The next batch will go out when the last 50 orders have been shipped. I hope this will happen in the next week or 2, it depends on how fast China comes back online.

I will know more next week once we see how things start coming along.

The group buy is closed, public lights will be available after the GB is finished.

Figure an average of ~100-125 lights a week with the V2 reflector tolerances and we have ~650 more lights for the GB and a reasonable guess is around 8+ weeks for the GB lights to be finished figuring at least one delay will pop up along the way.

After that it is only a matter of time for them to show up for sale in other places.

Those in the next batch, please keep in mind that it will most likely take ~8 weeks or more for the all lights to be shipped.

Woah, just to clarify:

Those in the next batch, please keep in mind that it will most likely take ~8 weeks or more for ALL of the next 650 lights to be shipped.

Correct, they will be shipping ~100 a week but for the last lights to ship it could take 8 weeks or more.

I’m still waiting patiently for my light and I do not mean to denigrate the efforts of Team GT with what I am about to say; however, it is a tad disheartening to see purchasers receiving their light in such poor packaging and not in the packaging previously posted in the thread, which I’ll refer to as official packaging. I keep all of my boxes as that is where my flashlights go when not in use. Is there a reason for the official packaging now being used that I may have missed? It is European or registered customers who receive the poor packaging? I don’t remember reading about this when I paid for my light back in December.

Yes, people wanted to get around customs and asked for the light to be shipped in two packages.

Here is a comparison of my light from the same distance before and after I sanded down the black spacer. Ignore any differences in color or brightness. At 9 feet, the hot spot went from 8 inches to 6 inches in diameter. At much longer distances, it looks like the hotspot size stayed the same.

I had to measure based on the sheets of tin on the building. Both hot spots look like they are 3 sheets wide. The coronas look the same as well. Maybe the new one has a slightly better defined hot spot? That might just be the camera settings. Eh, it doesn’t look worse.

Maybe I’ll do some lux measuring later on. I might even space out the black piece to the height it was before I sanded it and compare lux measurements.

Oh I see. Thanks for letting me know. I most definitely missed this.

Was this something that they had to request? In my case I paid for registered shipping without batteries - would this mean I will receive the light with the official packaging?

Thanks again.

I think with registered shipping you will get two boxes, don’t think you have to request. DHL ships in one box.