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

pooptoast · 2017-09-29T01:50:12.000Z

I bought 8 30q cells but accidentally ordered flat top. Hoping I can make them work. Figure a little magnet or something should do the trick but I’m hoping the carriers wind up working with flat tops. Oh well, live and learn I guess, got a great price so worst case I’ll get 8 more and repurpose these.

DB_Custom · 2017-09-29T03:04:01.000Z

The way a carrier is loaded pretty much excludes a magnet top, it’s been said that the isolation disk can be removed to make flat tops work but you’ll have to be sure you observe proper polarity when inserting cells, it’ll be on you if you invert one accidentally.

Tom_E · 2017-09-29T12:02:56.000Z

mrheosuper:

Sky:

I know this has been talked about before in previous posts but can’t seem to find it. I need to buy batteries for the GT. What are the best ones to buy and where can I find them. Thank you in advance for the help.

the best battery for this light is NCR18650GA, which has highest capacity now, and the cell can handle the current no problem

35E are higher according to reviews.

Sciencetists · 2017-09-29T14:36:58.000Z

Gunslinger686:

Sciencetists:

I ordered three of the the 4 packs of 30Q from banggood. I’m going to use 4 in my Q8 and 8 in the GT.

After the coupon it was $55CAD for 12cells, $4.5CAD each. It’s hard for me to get anything else in that price range.

What do I do to get The coupon code ?

It was a M4DM4X deal, I think I found it posted on BLF but a quick google turned up this page: https://m4dm4x.com/4pcs-samsung-inr18650-30q-button-top-new-deal/

Hopefully it is still active. They’re button tops too!

Sciencetists · 2017-09-29T14:40:01.000Z

I bought this shoulder strap for the GT: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100-Genuine-CANPIS-Leather-Camera-Shoulder-Neck-Carrying-Strap-Black-for-Leica-Fujifilm-SLR-Mirrorless-Camera/32469338138.html

It showed up yesterday and it is very nice. I think it will work very well. I am very excited for this light.

pommie · 2017-09-29T15:50:38.000Z

Managed to get out for some GT Proto beam shots last night
First the map for distance

Then for the control shot

Now the beam shot, using the same settings as the control shot

Just to show that it really was getting there, a crop at 100% of both images

Sorry no comparison shots as it started to rain and I got out of there while I was still dry

Cheers David

Edit:- There was a half moon out, ‘sky glow’ from the city only 7~8km away plus the lights on the pier so a real life situation

manxbuggy1 · 2017-09-29T18:14:55.000Z

Those are awesome shots Pommie. You can see the pylons beside the road or pier which ever it is all the way down. This thing really is a monster thrower. Thanks for sharing them!
Rick

The_Miller · 2017-09-29T18:26:19.000Z

Yeah Pommie, thanks for keeping sharing these beamshots!

teacher · 2017-09-29T19:19:21.000Z

pommie:

Managed to get out for some GT Proto beam shots last night
First the map for distance

Then for the control shot

Now the beam shot, using the same settings as the control shot

Just to show that it really was getting there, a crop at 100% of both images

Sorry no comparison shots as it started to rain and I got out of there while I was still dry

Cheers David

Edit:- There was a half moon out, ‘sky glow’ from the city only 7~8km away plus the lights on the pier so a real life situation

Very nice David… very nice indeed. Thank you for sharing those……

DB_Custom · 2017-09-29T20:47:00.000Z

My therapy is going to need therapy just to lug this thing around!

teacher · 2017-09-29T20:54:36.000Z

DB Custom:

My therapy is going to need therapy just to lug this thing around!

You may have to press your son into service as a “light bearer” for a while as you work into it………

cccpull · 2017-09-29T22:13:30.000Z

What’s the status of the light? Is the design and testing done, or are prototypes still being tested?

DB_Custom · 2017-09-30T01:53:09.000Z

It’s my understanding, ccc, that the carriers have been modified and the driver contact board is being adjusted to suit… the team doing the hover propulsion unit has already gone on vacation so that might be a while.

Teacher, if my son was given transport duty of such a light, the global scientists would think that our planet was going Pulsar or something, the spastic flashes of intense beams would fluster them all. (He cannot be still to save his life!)

DB_Custom · 2017-09-30T02:05:28.000Z

Hmmm, so we have beamshots up to .71 miles, somebody needs to venture into the realm of a mile+……

Edit: My TN42 at 1 mile across the lake…

For clarification, I highlighted the spec sheet on a tripod and my wife standing beside it in a pink blouse with black slacks…

The spec sheet, illuminated at one mile by the TN42

Same spec sheet illuminated by my 200mW green laser…

Unfortunately, my wife didn’t know how to operate the Canon G1X camera in manual mode so she didn’t get the shot’s in focus. I was fit to be tied, after all the set-up, but it is what it is…

manxbuggy1 · 2017-09-30T02:38:45.000Z

It still proves it “made it” at one mile. That’s awesome!

manxbuggy1 · 2017-09-30T02:41:14.000Z

Miller can you please put me on the list for a second GT?
Thanks.

DB_Custom · 2017-09-30T02:50:08.000Z

rdr had to have one too huh?

edit: Think of it this way, if you hold the GT in tactical grip and shoot with the other hand UNDER the tactical grip instead of over, the big GT will keep the biggest of guns from flying up in the air! lol

manxbuggy1 · 2017-09-30T03:32:28.000Z

That it would! Heck of a weapon light right there!

cccpull · 2017-09-30T03:43:00.000Z

DB Custom:

It’s my understanding, ccc, that the carriers have been modified and the driver contact board is being adjusted to suit… the team doing the hover propulsion unit has already gone on vacation so that might be a while.

Do you think this will be done by Christmas, 2017?

mrheosuper · 2017-09-30T04:06:41.000Z

Tom E:

mrheosuper:

Sky:

I know this has been talked about before in previous posts but can’t seem to find it. I need to buy batteries for the GT. What are the best ones to buy and where can I find them. Thank you in advance for the help.

the best battery for this light is NCR18650GA, which has highest capacity now, and the cell can handle the current no problem

35E are higher according to reviews.

yeah, i stop updating news for a while, you’re right