Looks like many will open their GT to let the smoke out for first few days or weeks
I migth do that too.
I think KawiBoy1428 was the only one that had any smoke (on only one of his two lights). Mine didn’t. I haven’t heard anyone else say they had smoke (from excess flux residue). Hopefully if anyone else sees it, they will mention it.
The bezel is way harder to open then the head was to remove on both of my GT’s. The rubber mat worked to get both bezels off, but man what a PITA! I would have used my big strap wrench but it’s at work. It took everything I had to get those bezels off!
Both are done now, I even changed the other GT’s emitter to the E2 3A I bought off Lexel both the de-domed E41A and the E2 3A are more to my liking.
Will someone please “list” for me, ALL “Team Members & Affiliation” involved in the BLF project.
… ToyKeeper …
I do lots of stuff on BLF, but I’m not on the BLF GT team.
For the GT I’ve mostly just chatted in this thread sometimes, and I’m hoping to port some firmware to the GT soon (FSM and its UIs). This will allow it to operate like a Zebralight, an Olight, a Meteor, or run Anduril (my current favorite UI, similar to Narsil).
We already have a Team account for the GT, it is what was used to post the support thread.
The issue now is that making a new thread at this point would lead to more work for the team with minimal effects on the usefulness for everyone else. I mean people still ask to be added to the list in my review thread, who says people will find and read a separate thread for the GT?
Plus there is the case of it needing to be put together and none of the team has time for that right now. I just started eating solid food again, it will be a little bit before I am ready to do anything more then try to keep up with reading the posts.
I think it would be easier if anything to add a FAQ to the support thread with the latest status updated, since that thread already exists.
After all the nice photos people have posted of their BLF, I might want to order another. When is the cutoff for the $157 price? I want to see if my first arrived before I order another.
After all the nice photos people have posted of their BLF, I might want to order another. When is the cutoff for the $157 price? I want to see if my first arrived before I order another.
I'd advise to get on the list while the getting is good and available
Looks like many will open their GT to let the smoke out for first few days or weeks
I migth do that too.
I think KawiBoy1428 was the only one that had any smoke (on only one of his two lights). Mine didn’t. I haven’t heard anyone else say they had smoke (from excess flux residue). Hopefully if anyone else sees it, they will mention it.
The bezel is way harder to open then the head was to remove on both of my GT’s. The rubber mat worked to get both bezels off, but man what a PITA! I would have used my big strap wrench but it’s at work. It took everything I had to get those bezels off!
Both are done now, I even changed the other GT’s emitter to the E2 3A I bought off Lexel both the de-domed E41A and the E2 3A are more to my liking.
Ceiling bounce is not a very good way to judge lumen output, its not going to be very accurate
This is another point, the concentrated beam of the GT could also effect the way the light bounced and cause less light to reflect at all, skewing your readings further.
Basically the LED in the GT is driven as hard as is practical for a production light, harder then most other lights, including the tn42 (it is driven at 2.25A IIRC). So you won’t get much more out of another LED, I wish we could. The only real improvement is going with an E2 bin LED for a 7% improvement. Which we could not source for the GT due to a shortage of NW E2 LED’s.
That makes sense to me. Thanks. I found it impressive that i still hit 1.2 million cd even with a NW emitter. I wonder what it would read with a led closer to cool white. my meter is crazy bias to cool white leds for measuring throw. but i LOVE the NW emitter so ill leave it as is. That is till i can get a CFT 90 in there. 5000 lumens and 1.6 ish million cd sounds amazing(just a guess). it wont be cheap but if a driver can be made for it to drive it to its max potential im all in.
a VERY NW emitter to boot.
it makes my other nw lights look cool white
UPDATES: It appears that the first shipment went out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid for cost reasons. Initial quality has been fantastic.
The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 23. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 576th person on the paid list that did not include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th. DHL shipping was very fast.
There should be a European order going out in January.
The next group to purchase lights (#1000 and up on the list) will get their emails mid January instead of early January in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.
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M4D M4X: You can buy 8 of the button top Samsung 35E batteries (seem ideal, high mAh and good amps) for $40 when you buy your GT. No sign up required for these. Battery details are here.
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Video of Drop Test
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Texas Ace Lumen Tube and JoshK Sphere calibrated with Maukka lights
Team Members noted.
Who were the members (heart of) involved in the development of the GT?
While I greatly appreciate the mention by pepinfaxera a few posts back & the mention by TA the other day…… I am not a team member & have only answered a few questions, trying to help out; when the opportunity was there to do so.
Don’t forget though…..
sb
Mr. Scott
JasonWW (who has worked his tail off in Millers sudden absence)
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You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load./"Bear" Bryant
.................................. "Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast" ...................................
After all the nice photos people have posted of their BLF, I might want to order another. When is the cutoff for the $157 price? I want to see if my first arrived before I order another.
I’d advise to get on the list while the getting is good and available
While admiring our GTs shortly after unboxing, my friend wondered how the tailcap and its spinning lanyard ring worked. I don’t recall seeing photos of it disassembled.
As I mentioned earlier, mine was much more difficult to turn than my friend’s. It certainly was not ‘twirlable’ like the prototype in VOB’s video.
Click play to watch the section of Matt’s video that shows the tailcap lanyard ring.
Curiosity got the best of me today, and I decided to find out how the tailcap was constructed, and why mine was hard to spin.
Looks like many will open their GT to let the smoke out for first few days or weeks
I migth do that too.
I think KawiBoy1428 was the only one that had any smoke (on only one of his two lights). Mine didn’t. I haven’t heard anyone else say they had smoke (from excess flux residue). Hopefully if anyone else sees it, they will mention it.
The bezel is way harder to open then the head was to remove on both of my GT’s. The rubber mat worked to get both bezels off, but man what a PITA! I would have used my big strap wrench but it’s at work. It took everything I had to get those bezels off!
Both are done now, I even changed the other GT’s emitter to the E2 3A I bought off Lexel both the de-domed E41A and the E2 3A are more to my liking.
Hahaa did you not read what T/A said about LUX numbers?
The LED in the GT is overdriven already. It is run at 2.5A in turbo which is about as high as is practical before rapidly diminishing returns.
You could swap the sense resistor and raise it to 3A if you really wanted but you would only gain a small amount for the first little bit until the LED heated up.
The biggest reason for the lower readings then other lights is that the GT is using a Neutral white 4000k emitter vs the CW ~6500k emitter in most other lights.
The lux meters we use are biased to the cooler white range and will artificially inflate those numbers.
The stock LED is a D4 bin. The highest bin that Cree lists in the data sheet is E2, which is 1 bin above D4. Or about 7% higher output. So 7% higher is about the most you can expect with another LED, everything else should be the meter bias.
So my LUX numbers are pretty meaningless since they are CW now and not NW.
Too freaking cold for beamshots, but I’ll see what I can do once the temp gets back above zero one of these nights! I do have to travel a bit to the country to get good ones
Iam extremely happy with my light cannon,last night here on new years eve i set my lights on strobe and i got some unexpected attention from order patrol who must have seen my lights striving while on patrol and they lot me up briefly I kindly waves at them and theybweny on there way
Iam extremely happy with my light cannon,last night here on new years eve i set my lights on strobe and i got some unexpected attention from order patrol who must have seen my lights striving while on patrol and they lot me up briefly I kindly waves at them and theybweny on there way
Looks like many will open their GT to let the smoke out for first few days or weeks
I migth do that too.
I think KawiBoy1428 was the only one that had any smoke (on only one of his two lights). Mine didn’t. I haven’t heard anyone else say they had smoke (from excess flux residue). Hopefully if anyone else sees it, they will mention it.
The bezel is way harder to open then the head was to remove on both of my GT’s. The rubber mat worked to get both bezels off, but man what a PITA! I would have used my big strap wrench but it’s at work. It took everything I had to get those bezels off!
Both are done now, I even changed the other GT’s emitter to the E2 3A I bought off Lexel both the de-domed E41A and the E2 3A are more to my liking.
Hahaa did you not read what T/A said about LUX numbers?
The LED in the GT is overdriven already. It is run at 2.5A in turbo which is about as high as is practical before rapidly diminishing returns.
You could swap the sense resistor and raise it to 3A if you really wanted but you would only gain a small amount for the first little bit until the LED heated up.
The biggest reason for the lower readings then other lights is that the GT is using a Neutral white 4000k emitter vs the CW ~6500k emitter in most other lights.
The lux meters we use are biased to the cooler white range and will artificially inflate those numbers.
The stock LED is a D4 bin. The highest bin that Cree lists in the data sheet is E2, which is 1 bin above D4. Or about 7% higher output. So 7% higher is about the most you can expect with another LED, everything else should be the meter bias.
So my LUX numbers are pretty meaningless since they are CW now and not NW.
Too freaking cold for beamshots, but I’ll see what I can do once the temp gets back above zero one of these nights! I do have to travel a bit to the country to get good ones
whatever happened to these battery carriers?
guess they got canned ?
sure did look nice.
Yes, they got canned. The extra springs under the half circle pieces added too much electrical resistance. They were probably cheaper to produce since the ends were made of plastic, but in the end the went back to their older style carrier. Similar to the one from their SD75 model seen below.
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Texas Ace Lumen Tube and JoshK Sphere calibrated with Maukka lights
Coyotehawk will add your name to his sign up list. You’ll see your name when he does the next update. It will be sometime mid January when you are emailed with the details of where to go and how to order.
You can also buy 8 of the Samsung 35E batteries for $40 at the same time as you buy the light. No sign up necessary for those. There are plenty of batteries in stock.
Welcome to BLF.
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Texas Ace Lumen Tube and JoshK Sphere calibrated with Maukka lights
The bezel is way harder to open then the head was to remove on both of my GT’s. The rubber mat worked to get both bezels off, but man what a PITA! I would have used my big strap wrench but it’s at work. It took everything I had to get those bezels off!
Both are done now, I even changed the other GT’s emitter to the E2 3A I bought off Lexel both the de-domed E41A and the E2 3A are more to my liking.
A few of my Throwers… 12 of them are XHP35’s….
KB1428 “Live Life WOT”
The center of the switch and the center of the tripod hole are exactly opposite each other.
Fully loaded with 8 Samsung 30Q button top cells, the balance point is 1 cm (3/8”) behind the center of the tripod hole.
With 4 cells in just the rear carrier, the balance point is at the rear edge of the tripod hole.
With 4 cells in just the front carrier, the balance point is at the front edge of the tripod hole.
This means the center of mass moves just 1.5 cm (5/8”) in the cases of both extremes.
In short, the balance point is at (or just behind) the tripod hole or switch.
I do lots of stuff on BLF, but I’m not on the BLF GT team.
For the GT I’ve mostly just chatted in this thread sometimes, and I’m hoping to port some firmware to the GT soon (FSM and its UIs). This will allow it to operate like a Zebralight, an Olight, a Meteor, or run Anduril (my current favorite UI, similar to Narsil).
We already have a Team account for the GT, it is what was used to post the support thread.
The issue now is that making a new thread at this point would lead to more work for the team with minimal effects on the usefulness for everyone else. I mean people still ask to be added to the list in my review thread, who says people will find and read a separate thread for the GT?
Plus there is the case of it needing to be put together and none of the team has time for that right now. I just started eating solid food again, it will be a little bit before I am ready to do anything more then try to keep up with reading the posts.
I think it would be easier if anything to add a FAQ to the support thread with the latest status updated, since that thread already exists.
Texas Avenger Driver Series
My LED Test series - XP-L2 V5 - Nichia 219C 90+ CRI - Latticebright "XM-L" - XHP35 & PWM efficiency - XHP50 - XP-L V5 - XM-L2 U2 - XP-G3 S5 - XP-L HI V2 - Oslon Square & direct comparison to Djozz tests - Nichia 319A - Nichia 219B 9080 CRI - Nichia 219C D320 - Nichia 229AT - XHP70.2 P2 - XHP50.2 J4 - Samsung LH351D
Easy comparison tool for all my LED tests
Team Members noted.
Who were the members (heart of) involved in the development of the GT?
>>>Searching for a specific flashlight? <<<
After all the nice photos people have posted of their BLF, I might want to order another. When is the cutoff for the $157 price? I want to see if my first arrived before I order another.
Both our teams have already done that!!!!!
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Congrats Dawgs!!! .
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Go BAMA……
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load./"Bear" Bryant
.................................. "Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast" ...................................
Texas Lumens Flashlights / M4D M4X Deals : sign up - save $$$$
Rudeness Level _ mΩ _ {width:70%} _ LightWiki _ LED Tint Chart
Xlamp size chart _ BatteryU _ Flashaholic? Need Professional Help??? TheOriginal _ TAB _ LightSearch _ BatterySearch _ 14500's _ DiCal
I'd advise to get on the list while the getting is good and available
>>>Searching for a specific flashlight? <<<
ok, we need beamshots, and lux numbers ASAP !!
a VERY NW emitter to boot.
it makes my other nw lights look cool white
UPDATES: It appears that the first shipment went out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid for cost reasons. Initial quality has been fantastic.
The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 23. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 576th person on the paid list that did not include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th. DHL shipping was very fast.
There should be a European order going out in January.
The next group to purchase lights (#1000 and up on the list) will get their emails mid January instead of early January in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.
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BLF GT official support thread
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Nvanlaar’s links.
The Millers Original Group Buy List ending on Nov 11 and #1213
Coyotehawk’s Continuation of the Group Buy List, starting Nov 11 and #1214 – Updated Dec 27
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Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for first 555 – Updated Dec 15
Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for #556 to #1038 – Updated Dec 10 or 12.
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M4D M4X: For all people who want to let us know the value that should be declared on the parcels:
please take the BLF GT customs declaration survey.
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M4D M4X: You can buy 8 of the button top Samsung 35E batteries (seem ideal, high mAh and good amps) for $40 when you buy your GT. No sign up required for these.
Battery details are here.
.
Video of Drop Test
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Texas Ace Lumen Tube and JoshK Sphere calibrated with Maukka lights
Click this to go to signature links. I'm still around, just not reading many new threads.
Don’t forget though…..
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load./"Bear" Bryant
.................................. "Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast" ...................................
Texas Lumens Flashlights / M4D M4X Deals : sign up - save $$$$
Rudeness Level _ mΩ _ {width:70%} _ LightWiki _ LED Tint Chart
Xlamp size chart _ BatteryU _ Flashaholic? Need Professional Help??? TheOriginal _ TAB _ LightSearch _ BatterySearch _ 14500's _ DiCal
Here are 2 beam shots in my usual location.
That hotspot is tiny compared to the L6 with xhp50.2 and xhp70.2. I’m also surprised by how big the corona is.
Texas Ace Lumen Tube and JoshK Sphere calibrated with Maukka lights
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Please put me on the list for another
Wow, like a moon.
While admiring our GTs shortly after unboxing, my friend wondered how the tailcap and its spinning lanyard ring worked. I don’t recall seeing photos of it disassembled.
As I mentioned earlier, mine was much more difficult to turn than my friend’s. It certainly was not ‘twirlable’ like the prototype in VOB’s video.
Click play to watch the section of Matt’s video that shows the tailcap lanyard ring.
Curiosity got the best of me today, and I decided to find out how the tailcap was constructed, and why mine was hard to spin.Click the photos to embiggen.
The sticker inside the tailcap hides four blind holes. The scratches are my fault.
I used my small needle nose pliers to loosen the inner piece. It’s reverse threaded.
The tailcap is made of three parts and two o-rings.
The large piece has an o-ring that the spinning ring slides along.
The o-ring was not seated properly in the groove and was partially pinched. I had removed and reinstalled it before these photos.
I removed both o-rings, lubricated them, and reinstalled them.
After reassembling the tailcap, my lanyard ring spins much easier. I think it has just the right amount of resistance.
I reinstalled the sticker inside the tailcap to help protect the anodizing and to further insulate the rear carrier.
Hahaa did you not read what T/A said about LUX numbers?
The LED in the GT is overdriven already. It is run at 2.5A in turbo which is about as high as is practical before rapidly diminishing returns.
You could swap the sense resistor and raise it to 3A if you really wanted but you would only gain a small amount for the first little bit until the LED heated up.
The biggest reason for the lower readings then other lights is that the GT is using a Neutral white 4000k emitter vs the CW ~6500k emitter in most other lights.
The lux meters we use are biased to the cooler white range and will artificially inflate those numbers.
The stock LED is a D4 bin. The highest bin that Cree lists in the data sheet is E2, which is 1 bin above D4. Or about 7% higher output. So 7% higher is about the most you can expect with another LED, everything else should be the meter bias.
So my LUX numbers are pretty meaningless since they are CW now and not NW.
Too freaking cold for beamshots, but I’ll see what I can do once the temp gets back above zero one of these nights! I do have to travel a bit to the country to get good ones
KB1428 “Live Life WOT”
Goshdogit, those are some top notch pics there. Very professional looking.
Texas Ace Lumen Tube and JoshK Sphere calibrated with Maukka lights
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Perhaps our Dear Leader could change the owner of the first post in this thread from The Miller to the team account?
Lj
Lj
yep, i read it……..
Lj
whatever happened to these battery carriers?
guess they got canned ?
sure did look nice.
Think they weren’t getting the numbers they were looking for. And narrowed it down to efficiency/passthrough/flow through the carriers.
Yes, they got canned. The extra springs under the half circle pieces added too much electrical resistance. They were probably cheaper to produce since the ends were made of plastic, but in the end the went back to their older style carrier. Similar to the one from their SD75 model seen below.
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Texas Ace Lumen Tube and JoshK Sphere calibrated with Maukka lights
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Boredom. Made on New Years Eve. A quicky, figuratively speaking.
>>>Searching for a specific flashlight? <<<
thats eggxactly how i would feel if i were you too !
2 funny man!
I would like to be added to the list. Thank you
Coyotehawk will add your name to his sign up list. You’ll see your name when he does the next update. It will be sometime mid January when you are emailed with the details of where to go and how to order.
You can also buy 8 of the Samsung 35E batteries for $40 at the same time as you buy the light. No sign up necessary for those. There are plenty of batteries in stock.
Welcome to BLF.
Texas Ace Lumen Tube and JoshK Sphere calibrated with Maukka lights
Click this to go to signature links. I'm still around, just not reading many new threads.
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