The GT will work with pretty much any cells, I have been using some laptop pulls with good results in the prototype.
The 30Q will maintain full regulation a bit longer but GA’s will last longer overall. I would not stress out too much over the cells.
Giggles cell carriers have been updated with polarity protection. By default you will need button top cells or solder blobbed cells.
The protection can be removed if you truly want to use flat top cells and are willing to accept the risk though. Even I am going to leave it in place, it is just too easy to be absent minded and pop a cell in backwards without thinking.
Better to have a safety net in place just in case.
Personally I would pick Panasonic GA’s for Giggles, they are my go to cells for everything. If you could arrange for these to be sent with the GT that would be great.
I found a new mail to US
they said a week to US, I sent several packages to US,waiting for result
Since nobody has tried this before so one could only guess. If the XHP70.2 is driven to 6000 lumens, I would say the the light could possibly produce 250~300kcd (1~1.1km). The throw is still impressive not to mention that with the 6000 lumens output it is just a different kind of monster. I used to owned one of these generic 85W HID flashlights purchased from Aliexpress and the throw is about 200kcd, so this BLF GT will beat these HID flashlights in every way despite that the GT has a much bigger reflector.
And with sliced dome, >400kcd maybe?
I was also thinking around 1000m of throw for the xhp70.2 but like you said, it is purely a guess at this point.
My Convoy L6 with a XHP70.2 P2 3B and SMO reflector does 195 kcd, but pushed hard at about 18A and 8,200 lumens @30 secs, 9,000 @turn on. Driven at lower amps in a GT, would hope it would do at least 250 kcd.
Fun, isn’t it Tom? 
boy, after 30 secs in the PVC light box, it's freak'n hot! But if it ain't hot, it ain't fun!
Hhhmmm, just like my peppers. The Carolina Reapers are getting close now, many full size, just not red yet.
What’s the latest timetable for this baby? I’m ready to pay! :money_mouth_face:
There's prep work in progress and Lumintop seems to be making it a priority, but I can't say what this means it terms of a time frame.
The Test PM just went out to the team a few hours ago. Once all the back end stuff is sorted out on that we should be able to get the ball rolling on the down payment PM’s.
We are still waiting for the final pictures of the updates from lumintop before final approval, my guess is the prototype parts are in production and they will send the pictures once they are done.
this is worse than Christmas, when i was a kid…… :smiling_imp: 
Or what I usually do — one to use normally and one to use for development. Or one to keep stock and one to mod. Or one to use and one to give away. Or more than one just because the really good stuff doesn’t happen often and tends to only be available for a short time. It took me a long time to learn to buy more than one when I find something really special.
Although i’ll remind myself all those possible justifications i would put it more simply: if the stuff is good, more then one is better then one. Of course that’s true of about anything if you can afford it. :person_facepalming:
Yeah, but the problem is that I am running out of room for all my goodies 
I may build another house next to the current one. Problem temporarily solved. 
EDIT: Decided to build another house AND to get rid of my family. 
Thanks Tom. Looking forward to this one. Here’s my credit card # for whenever it’s needed. 2121 2121 2121 2121 expiration 12/21
I posted an official review of Giggles here for anyone interested:
I present you with Giggles, The ultimate LED thrower flashlight, from this point forward, you shall address it by it’s proper name. 
Better build 2 houses and get rid of 2 families. “Temporarily” as a measure of time has a nasty habit of falling short… quite short of expectations.
MARK
AND list updated (core)
Now the test PMs worked, thanks so much to Mr.Scott and SB for doing it.
all as expected, so with the new core list, and a PM sstem that is working, Neal begin ready to process all the PMs and payments, it should not be long now.
Of course topic title will be changed to indicate the sending, a list of how the sending went will be posted and list of BLFers who made the down payment will be made by Neal and posted too.
Oh wow, spot 682 was empty, you should have been 681, really asy to correct this error