PS- with a tiny 1mm LED like the black flat, the max spot diameter at 1km distance is still going to be huge, almost 100m.
Maybe just take into consideration the needs/wants of others and how they may prefer to use their lights before criticizing.
Paid for the first one with donation and reply email , waiting for the 3rd batch email now… Thanks guys!
Me? Who did I criticize?
There are many people on this forum that are not familiar with certain kinds of lights and they might just naturally assume that a light with a longer throw is “better” not realizing that there are tradeoffs for that longer throw. I just want to make it clear that you get a much smaller hotspot which makes it harder to see what your aiming at. So it’s not necessarily “better”, just different. You have to decide for yourself what best suits your needs.
Like if your a sailor and you need a light on your boat that has maximum distance to see other vessel, markers or land, then a small spot, low lumen, super long thrower light would work well.
I don’t think I have any lights just for fun. All my lights are work lights. They all serve a function and are used regularly, so maybe that’s why I’ve not liked any small spot, low lumen, super long throwers.
Just delete the extra ones.
The Delete button is between the Edit and Quote buttons. 
Paid for 2x hoping for another,
Thank you to all who made it happen ,
GREAT WORK ,
This really is a good forum .
Dammit mickscott, that is not how this works.
You can’t just pay for 2 lights unless you paid for 2 advance payments.
Now Neal is gonna have to do extra work to refund you your money, or you will have to pay the extra difference to reach 150usd later on for a 3rd batch light.
In fact, you are numbers 779 and 780 on the main list, and you do NOT appear on the list of people who made the pre-payment, at all.
Did you get a PM asking for you to pay?
EDIT: Sorry, my bad, ignore this. I’m too stupid for my own good.
will they still be shipping today, monday 12/11/2017 ?
779 mickscott
780 mickscott 2nd
He is good to go. 555-1000 pms went out.
After the first 555 on the list, your requests for the $150+ price are placed on the list as you request them.
That is what Neal said. No one has said anything different.
My mistake. Editing my post. I did not know 555-1000 got their PM.
Sorry.
It’s Monday afternoon in China, hopefully we will start getting shipping updates soon… (fingers crossed) :sunglasses:
Thanks Jason :+1: 
People can still read it even if marked through. They might flag it as rude. It might be best to delete it.
I’ll delete any of my quotes as well.
Don’t forget that Martin (M4DM4X) also said a few pages back… “sometime next week”.
He said that a couple of days ago…… so, sometime this week.
I’m sure whenever it is…
……Neal is doing the best he can with this monumental task. :+1:
And the fewer interruptions he has, the more he can get done. 
Can you tell me what mcpcb would work with the black flat? I haven’t seen this little LED beast before. Looks interesting!
Nvanlaar’s links for page 363. Updated 12/9/17
Continuation of Group Buy, 1214 - Current(?)
Paid/Shipping List for first 555
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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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Samsung 35E seem ideal, high mAh and good amps.
M4D M4X is doing a groupbuy, here: GROUPBUY: 8pcs Samsung 35E BUTTON TOP for the BLF GT
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It’s said to fit on XP sized boards. Of course you need a very large diameter mcpcb to use it with the GT.
This is called a subtle or indirect criticism:
A few more examples:
“I don’t know why people like loud cars. What can you do with noise? I’ve never liked them. ”
“I don’t know why people like expensive phones. Why spend so much money? I don’t waste money like that.”
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I think you don’t understand that when using lights at several kilometres, your “small” hotspot is dozens or hundreds of meters in diameter and is definitely enough to see what you’re aiming at.
The point of having a small hotspot is to pinpoint an object without flooding everything around it and potentially annoying people or causing safety hazards.
This is correct, however you keep contradicting yourself with comments like “makes it harder to see what your aiming at” (which is obviously not true) or “What can you see with an xpg2 or black flat? A tiny little dot way out in the distance?”
Enderman, I’m not understanding what your saying. Why are you posting this?
Because you’re basically telling everyone that wants to mod this light with a small high intensity LED that “you cant even see anything” or “it’s just a tiny dot”
And I explained to you why those statements are completely wrong.
Let people do what they want.
The point of this light is to be flexible, both a thrower and a flooder, so if people want to mod it into a superthrower with a tight beam then they certainly can, and it will not be a “useless tiny dot” like you seem to think.
It will actually be a really large spot, due to the reflector design instead of aspheric lens.