Knowing the person I borrowed them from they would be mid priced, not top quality but they were all metal so not cheap either, all I have to do now is ask that person what I owe him to buy two replacements :money_mouth_face:
I will find a way, even if I damage it more :smiling_imp: I got it to mod which I cannot do if I can’t get into it.
Now I have found a dead led-die on my gt. I can see it with my eyes if I look to the LED at the lowest mode.
Is this the first DOA-GT?
Thats hard to check for Lumintop and to notice that fault.
Here you can see the spot at a distance of 1.5m:
I put a lens on the GT to show the LED better:
And here you can see, what the lens is projecting:
Well if one of the four dies is less efficient you geht less light for the same current.
Maybe it was on the edge off the spec when Cree selected the four dies?
Well, it is sure not nice, but dead on arrival?
Versuch mal die LED direkt zu fotografieren, unterbelichtet und mit nem ND-Filter
Very strange indeed, this is also the first I have heard of any major issues with any GT so far. Everything else have been minor things.
Like they said, it is very strange that 1 die would burn out while the rest still work. Can you get a picture of the LED itself? Maybe on moon mode as well.
It is hard to make any good picture with my Nokia 808 PureView Cellphone. But I made some.
I did not have an other camera, only a small old Exilim EX-H10, which makes worse pictures as my cellphone. It has only a small 12MP CCD-Sensor. My Cellphone-Sensor is 1/1,2” big CMOS with 38MP.
Last two pics with the same orientation. You can see the bonding wires.
Here’s a tip for removing the bezel. Loosen the upper head from the light engine section first, this takes pressure off the o-ring on the glass and makes the bezel much easier to turn due to less friction.
Jason is there some shots of the Gt in bits, as in the whole thing? I have seen the ones with the carriers all in bits, but the head is in 1 part. If there are some, may be useful to pin them to the 1st post for those of us yet to battle opening it. I’m sure I saw some in the depths of a thread….
I’m waiting for the new led’s before I’m even trying. I suppose they will be some months off yet? (I read Lumintop may do something ?)
I checked and I don’t really have any good shots of the head taken apart. I’ll work on finding some and add them to the main GT thread post #3 with the other pictures.