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.
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.
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
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.
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: