First we'll try the Acebeam L16.
It's actually pretty good.
Now the Giga thrower.
Oh my gosh!
I'll be so lucky if someone doesn't come after me tonight!
Surefire 6p, C8, Acebeam L16, Convoy L6, BLF GT
That is so ridiculous. The BLF Giga thrower, giggles for short. I've been waiting on
this light for so long, and I'm freaking out!
Aside from being such a beautiful beast, it's the longest throwing LED flashlight
I've ever held in my hands. One million two hundred twenty nine thousand Lux at one
meter. To give you an idea how far that is that's a beam distance of two thousand
two hundred and seventeen meters or 1.377 miles! This beast
will reach. The light you're gonna see in this video is only a prototype still.
That giggles right there that won't be on all the lights, as far as I know
that's just something Texas ace added, because you know it embodies the light
BLF Giga thrower. And also a play on what it does to your face when you fire it up.
So take everything you see here with a box of salt. Grain of salt? I don't
know just make sure you've got some salt. Even though this thing is pretty big I
think it feels like a balanced light. This body is an 8x 18650 housing. Right
here nice big fins. This finish has a few dings in it because it's been roughed up
by a couple of guys already, but overall the finish on it is really super nice. I
mean it looks good it covers all of the corners you know. The machining, the
design, a lot of thought has been put into this. I am just tickled about
this because it is a reflector base light. 120 millimeters across that front
right there. That's a big reflector, we had to have that made. It didn't just
come off a shelf somewhere, and that was one of the major hurdles and getting
this light off the ground. Looking down this barrel past our 120 millimeter
reflector, we have an XHP35 HI LED. The reflector has a nice smooth finish
A.R. coated lens. Up front we have our e-switch and none in the back. All your
control is right here looking at the threads on this they're smooth as glass,
really smooth, and they're super thick, too; they're not just those little bitty thin
ones that you can yank the cap off. I mean they're very robust. So that brings
us to these battery carriers. Looking at these, they are an original
design. I mean I've never seen anything this heavy-duty before in a set of
adapters like this they've got these raised brass contacts, good springs that
you know the whole thing, it's just well-made. It's solid. There's no play in
it. I mean it's just really great quality. Reverse polarity protection. Something
else I noticed is that even though these stack end-to-end in the body, they're run
in parallel, meaning that when you stack them, the voltage does not increase. I
thought that was pretty awesome. Okay, with my adapters all loaded up, we're
ready to try this bad boy out.
All of the electrical contact is made at this end.
There's nothing here at the tail cap end that needs to be making contact. You can
also just put one of those adapters full of 18650s in there and use the other
one as a spacer, and the light will come on. Our user interface is one click on
and then, a ramp! I'm telling you, the first time I saw that, I about fell over.
And it's not just any ramp, either. It's a perfectly smooth as glass, looks like
there must be a million steps in there. Not buh-buh-buh-buh-buh. It's just like,
it looks logarithmic. It is as smooth as I've ever seen, and it's quick. The other
thing I like about it is that bump at the end.
It just stops, and it lets you know, "Hey, we're there." Blink! Same thing going
the other direction. Just, just beautiful. Plenty of range on that. Super good low.
One click on, one click off. Tom E., If you are watching this video, let me tell you,
you are my hero, sir. Thank you. Okay, now, while we are using the ramp mode, we have
some options. If you press and hold, you can automatically go to moonlight. If you
want to press and hold from there, it'll give you your ramp all the way to the
top, or all the way to the bottom. If you want to go straight to turbo, double
click, and you'll jump to that. Now, when you click it off, it will memorize the
last place you left the ramp, so if you left it halfway up and you click,
you'll be right there. If you go all the way to the top in the ramp mode, that is
actually high and not turbo. That's about 2 amps to the L.E.D. When you're at that,
you can still go higher. Double click to turbo, which is about 2.5 amps to the L.E.D.
There are some other things. There is temperature monitoring. Several other
groups that you can program this to, but we'll get into that later. Let's talk
about how to carry the BLF GT. We have several options. Right here we
have this little place where you can hook a strap if you want. Alternatively,
there are also places for these little rings here, and on the head, and something
I thought was pretty creative is this. If you've got your strap on there and you
want to take the tail cap loose, your strap gets all tangled up. But not with
the GT, because although the cap is sitting still, I'm not unthreading the
cap. It has that rotating ring, and it's really smooth, so I thought that was a
pretty slick idea. This right here, you can take that out,
and that is the same thread as what's on a tripod mount. Now, I do also want to
check the lumen output on the highest and lowest mode, so why don't we go do
that. More awesomeness. Look, I mean look at that! It doesn't even fit in my lumen
tube! Look. Convoy L6, no problem, plenty of room to spare. BLF GT. Okay, so after
running the numbers, now remember, this isn't going to be perfectly accurate because
of the way that this beast sits on my lumen tube, but a rough estimate on the
turbo output is 1887 lumens, and on lowest mode I got 2.5 lumens.
I think that's a pretty good spread. My yard: about 250 feet to the fence down
there. Acebeam L16, BLF GT.
My truck: 771 feet.
Big water tower. Water tower: 3442 feet. Okay, first the Acebeam L16.
Doesn't even really touch it. Now, BLF GT.
Yeah. Oh, we've got room to spare! I'm as far away as I can get us, and we're still
destroying that tower. And the beam is the size of the tower, not just a square
dot on there.
Clubhouse.
Man. Trackhoe.
So right there is our building, and way over there's our track hoe, and clear on
the other side of this chasm is our water tower. So that's quite a span right
there. Hopefully, we can do that. Water tower from Golf Course: 4884 feet.
Massive hotel. Hotel the size of a marble. Remember that shot we took of my truck?
That one we shot from here? This is that distance from the sky, and this is the
distance that we're about to shoot: six thousand two hundred and thirty feet. One
point one eight miles. Just look at the way that it hits that hotel, too. On the far
right side, there's nothing lit up. When I pull the light away, watch how the
edge of it disappears. So we've still got light to spare. Not only that, it covers
the entire building. It's not just a spot on the building, it covers the whole
thing from here. That is insane! And I want to say from me, thank you to all of
you guys for doing this. You know, I know it takes a lot of time and a lot of
effort. I've already sent the down payment for my light. Looking now, I see a
price of, it looks like around two hundred and fifty nine dollars, retail.
However, if you get in on the group buy, which is already an extensive list, it
looks like you're gonna save about a hundred dollars on that price. So I'll
put a link in the description to that thread so that you can find all the
information in the six thousand plus posts. Be sure to let us know what you think
about the BLF Giga thrower. Now, there are some acknowledgments I feel like really
need to be made. The original thought on this light was from Texas Ace, and him
and The Miller have both put forth quite a bit of effort as far as getting the
light rolling, and they told me specifically there are some
acknowledgments that they would like to be made, and these are them.
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