Klarus XT12GT Review

Totally agree with your review :wink: I really like this light and it is my favorite right now, although like you said i think that the mode spacing is really poor (so sad Klarus!). My Utorch UT02 it is still on the way and I probably will be disappointed with it?

Thanks for great review

Thanks mate!

I like the Utorch but its no where near as bright as the XT12GT but the hot spot is much tighter. I stuffed my reflector on the UT02 i will get a new one sooner or later.

The size and weight are in favor of the XT12GT. So i would more likely carry that.

Start up lux reading with the UT02 was 90 lux and with the XT12GT i was getting 118 Lux at start up. Also my UT02 is NW.

Thank you for your great review and ….

…. please PM me a coupon code :person_facepalming:

very nice pictures!

thanks for your review!

Thank you for the review! mine will arrive more or less this week. can’t wait to take beamshots :smiley:

Thanks lads! I was curious to see how this tail cap works. So it appears to be a mechanical switch and an electronic switch. Basically a side switch placed on the tail cap.

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Any alternative battery aside from the stock klarus battery for achieving the 1,600 lumen rating? :slight_smile:

Yea I would use any high drain cell.

Well my one is dead as a dodo now. When I took the battery out the spring actually burnt my finger.

The unit lights up the green battery indicator but the main led no longer functions.

Its got a short circuit. Did you mod it in any way?

Nope, I took the main battery out and swapped it for a LG to do some LUX testing

I took the switch out and it looks normal. The electrical smell comes from the head of the light.

Yea it defiantly shorted some how. What cell did you put in?

Well it cut out on the klarus cell. I was running a Sanyo NCR18650GA before then after.

I had tested my XT11GT tailcap spring for 184mV drop at 5A, so 1W heat on normal operation, if it was too hot to touch there must have been a shortcut of the cell

On long cells the spring resistance gets lower as parts of it get bridged

Weird i can not see any possible way it would short unless there is a problem with the charging circuit.

The charging circuit is seperated from the diode driver, the driver can fry and the charge often works fine

I did disassemble a XT11GT which should be almost identical, just another charge port

You can see the tube for the toggle switch must be seperated from battery minus, maybe it shorts the driver when the battery gets contact to it?

I haven’t got a clue how to get inside the top half. I don’t really wish to either.

I’ll check what happens when I offer it the magnetic charging connector

A question for other owners of the XT12GT, does yours “whistle” when its on different modes. It sounds like the driver is ramping down power and whistling like a cheap chinese power supply. Mine has done it from day one but not all the time.

I finally added the video a week late! lol I think i need a bigger hard drive and some editing skillz would help!

mine came defective from banggood. light shuts off after 10 seconds running on turbo. need to press again the switch twice to turn in on again. sometimes it wont even turn on. i hope that this is just an isolated case and not experienced by other xt12gt users. :person_facepalming: