(prototype) the GT Mini

I just check my tracking too… it suppose to deliver on wed… fedex already handed the package to USPS. It will be delivered today. Great Monday.

Yeah, you lucked out Newlumen that yours was shipped by FedEx SmartPost. Yours was shipped two weeks after many of ours & your getting it the same day as many of us. :+1:

Of course ours were shipped two weeks earlier by ’Slo Boat from China International Marine Express’. :person_facepalming:
Their ‘Flagship Vessel’ is shown below. :smiley:

’Slo Boat from China International Marine Shipping’…. Flagship Vessel

Might as well laugh about it…. :smiley: :smiley: :smiley::wink:

I think it’s impressive! They 3D printed that SloBoat for $16.93… amazing!

Yep… that sounds about right. :wink:
Cut down on overhead anyway possible…… :smiley:

After seeing that pic, I just compared my D1S and GT mini reflector and the D1S reflector is definitely smoother. Also the D1S hotspot is noticeably smaller, so should throw farther. I got 1,330 lumens with the D1S and 1,140 lumens with the GT Mini. Seems Emisar’s quality is better than Lumintop overall.

I just took a piece of paper soaked in alcohol and wiped down the springs on my D1S. There were alot of yellowish corrosive residue on the beryllium springs and battery contacts. The turn on lumen finally came back up from 862 lumens to 1,330 lumens! Now my D1S is brighter than the GT Mini and the hotspot is also noticeably smaller so should throw further than the GT Mini.

Is it bad to leave the battery in contact with beryllium springs? Does that somehow accelerate corrosion?

Sweet bro…FINALLY.

Cool question. Someone care to refresh their redox reactions from chemistry class? :party:

Thats what i thought… emisar d1s is intense and small… perfect led centered… i dont see anything wrong… hopefully i get my mini gt today… tracking didnt show it is out for delivery but it is schedule to delivered today. . :frowning:

So, perhaps I should solder the spring to the battery top and remove any spring from the driver, just to be sure there is no corrosion build up between the cell and the spring…. :smiley: (I’ve done that before, by the way)

My GTmini showed up today. So far quite impressed with it.

After three weeks I finally got my Mini GT NW today. Light looks great however there is an issue with it. When in turbo or top of ramp and double click to turbo the beam changes from NW to CW with a purple corona and then smoke starts swirling inside the reflector. Obviously this isnt’t right. I bought from the Group buy here on BLF. Not sure who to contact.

It sounds like the led is overloading/overheating due to bad soldering to mcpcb. One other person reported the same. I would contact Neal or M4D M4X.

I got my mini gt today. Yay… both mini gt cw and d1s cw measured the same lumen… so both are equally good or the same.

This might be useful to buyers from united states… i recorded banggood shipping time… all free standard shipping. I counted the days when they start shipped.

Flashlights 10 days
Flashlights 11 days
Flashlights 9 days
Flashlights. 14 days ( wild fires delay ? )
Flashlights. 11 days

Wonders never cease!!

Mini GT was………

  • Ordered & Paid for 9 July 2018.
  • Shipped 2 August 2018
  • Delivered today, 27 August 2018

An impressive little light to say the least…… :+1:

Possibly the led has not been flowed onto the MCPCB correctly.

25 days ? Thats hella long… atleast mini gt get there safely…

Yep… there are several of us that bought these through the Pre Buy/Group Buy/whatever it was………. that the shipping time sucked. :smiley:
No complaint… just fact. It appears that group of packages either was truly on a slo boat or just sat around somewhere for a couple of weeks with no movement.

But… such is life . :smiley: :smiley:
At least it arrived in one piece & working. :wink:

That is what I’m saying. When it goes to turbo, the heat can not get to the mcpcb fast enough.