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. . 
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…. 
(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.
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 .
At least it arrived in one piece & working. 
That is what I’m saying. When it goes to turbo, the heat can not get to the mcpcb fast enough.
Got mine today as well. Played around with a charged 30q when I got it. No smoke or unfocused reflector (that sounds horrible, sorry man). It looked great on the wall.
After the included 30q was all charged up I stuck it in my sphere. Only got 1,101 lumens at startup and 1,049 at 30 seconds. Mine is the NW variant.
I did notice the light seems to be made to accept protected cells as the 30q is not as tight end-to-end as other 18650 lights. Springs are not compressed without load, just not as long as I expected.
I may bypass the driver spring to see if it helps.
I’m not really let down too much, as i’m getting 88% of rated output. I’d be happier within 10% though. I’ll try a few other 30q and maybe a vtc5a to see what it might be.
It’s pulling 5.32amps, at start, in turbo.
I did get 134,524 candela at 20’ measured with the same battery fresh off the charger, which is right on par with the claimed 135k (within 1%).
What sphere are you using? Obviously they can vary the output readings.
If your measuring 135kcd from a NW, you have the most powerful NW yet. It kind of suggests your sphere readings are low.
Is the 5.3A at startup? It’s better to measure at 30 seconds or sooner if it stabilizes. Maybe you can squeeze a bit more output with a driver spring bypass.
I measured 1390 lumen @ 10 seconds… TA tube. Cool white. Sony vtc6… jason, is that too high??
Are you asking me to compare my TA Lumen Tube to yours? Do you suspect your tube is reading a bit high?
I adjusted my TA Tube to make it read consistently to my Maukka calibration light. I had to reduce my output by more than 32. I had to reduce it by 39.
Your lumen reading is about 12% higher than mine (well within tolerance of the stock TA Tube). It would be best to also compare the amp draws and the candela. If your also drawing 5.5A and had 148kcd, then your tube might be reading a bit high (compared to mine).
If your drawing 6A and get 155kcd, then your lumen numbers might be about the same as mine, your just getting higher output from the light.
I see you just ordered a calibration light from Maukka. Have you received it yet?
I do not believe my tube is reading high, as I have not tampered with it… two fenix lights measured 960 and 1027 lumen for the stock 1000 rated…
I am just curious what you guys getting… I ordered maukka calibrated lights and should be here soon.
I do not know how to measured amp draws nor have a device to do it.
This is very easy to do. Most folks on the forum prefer using the Uni-T UT210E meter. There was a group buy as well as coupons a while back. It’s usually around 30 bucks. You can take off a lights tail cap and connect the battery with a loop of wire to the battery tube. Then clamp the meter to the wire. The light works normally and you can measure the amperage. This is how you would estimate output if you didn’t have an integrating sphere.