[PART 2] Official BLF GT Group Buy thread. Closed, but Public sales open!

Yes, this is fine.

I’ll second that. $875 divided among 10 people, for over a year’s worth of organising? I’m sure we can do better than that!

One share alone isn’t enough for all of the work some of the volunteers have done in a single day. It is appreciated.

Been wracking my brain trying to think of something witty to say. Other than I’ll probably frighten the neighbors with it, I got nuttin.
There’s a nice open field off one side of my back yard with some structures off in the distance just begging to be lit up and compared to my other lights. I cant wait to do that.

Ordered pretty much one of everything…except the donations, ordered more of those :slight_smile: You guys certainly do deserve it.

Hey guys, I PAID. Updated my paypal e mail. But old e mail is on invoice receipt. Email is needed to confirm payment. PMed Neal and support@lumitop.com No answers. Any suggestions? Thanks.

#1235 - Ordered, Paid, Donated, Replied to Neil's email with ID and phone number.

Again, many thanks to everyone's work involved. You all went well above and beyond with the GT.

I don't recommend doing this but has anyone noticed how bright and bigger looking animals eyes seem to be when the GT is lighting them up? It actually made me feel bad after I did it to a herd of whitetail deer but I had to leave it on them for a few seconds just to be sure it wasn't a fluke. They really looked a lot brighter/bigger than ever before. In PA we are allowed to drive around with a spotlight looking for them until 11PM. Its something I don't usually do but I was out testing the GT and couldn't resist on the way home. With the GT I won't shine any of them that are too close anymore.

There might be a little problem with donations.
I donated 10 initially but only one was taken.
Went back today to retry and only one dollar was going to be taken again in paypal.
So went back to the page and 3 dollars were showing up in cart, corrected this and success on the third occasion.
Ordered all the items in the initial transaction, and looking forward so much to recording them.
Thanks for the privilege.

Receiving them even

My user : surasakkongtha Request 1286 Payment complete

Neal replied

I have the tracking code
It’s not working yet

I hope things are finally going in the right direction

I would wait for Neal to get back to you. He has already had over 120 orders last I checked so needless to say he is having a hard time keeping up.

Ordered, with all the extras, paid, donated, Replied to Neil’s email.

After waiting patiently all this while, now comes the part where I get to check my e-mail/tracking 500 times a day. Like a kid awaiting Christmas. :smiley:

My thanks to TA and ALL of the Giggles team.

And I keep asking myself, why didn’t I get 2??! Or 3…

Lol

I understand that particularly for batteries in series, it is important to keep them balanced, and not split up the set. Since I assume that there will be people who are planning to power the GT with both the short and the long tube from the same original set of batteries - splitting up the original eight cells into two sets and draining both sets of four cells unevenly - I was wondering how important it is to follow that rule when it comes to parallel configurations?

We are talking about two parallel 50Wh batteries, which seems like a fair bit of energy. Would it be inviting disaster not to keep a separate set of four cells handy for the short tube?

Hi Team,

I got a PM about the group buy for my last two lights, but in the PM where it says “here is your link” and “Password” It’s just blank.

The most important thing is that the 4 cells in each carrier match.

Each set of 4 cells should match but unofficially will work as long as the voltage is the same between them. So if all 8 cells are fresh off the charger and you put 4 matching cells in each carrier, this should be fine.

I have been using my GT like this since the start.

That said it is not recommended and is unofficial, just my experience.

PM sent

Paypal sent for 2 more!!!

Thanks for the reply. Personally, for me the short tube is more of a gimmick for laughs than anything that I plan to use in real-life situations, and for the few times that I expect to use it I’ll probably just grab the cells from my Q8 or one of the Astrolux MF models. But I was worried that someone might potentially cause a dangerous situation by using either both one or two carriers at different times. Seems like it’s not as much of an issue as I thought it might be.

Sorry for the late response. I stopped receiving notifications for this thread yesterday and just woke up and checked to see 86 new messages. Anyway…

Contrary to Teachers response, I would have to say No, there is not a guaranteed supply for people on the group buy list at the level your currently listed (fourth batch of PM’s, #1426 and higher)

Of the 710 people waiting to buy lights, there are only 650 lights available. TA and I believe that there will be a fair number of people that decide not to purchase and/or drop out.

In 2 weeks we will see what the drop out rate is for the 3rd batch. There could be enough for everyone in batch #4 or it might be close.

Then in 4 weeks the last PM’s will go out and it will be a first come, first serve basis. I think everyone that orders in the first few days or week will get one, but if demand is still higher than supply, the people that try to order a week or two after the last PM’s arrive might miss out.

Again, we really don’t know for sure the drop out rate.