You can bypass the springs if you really want but it is at your own risk.
1: Jason explained it pretty well, for a company like lumintop to make a 3 carrier battery tube they would need to make a batch of at least 100. Unless they think they can sell all of those it would be silly to make them at all. I can’t blame them for not making it, there was vocal interest in the short tubes (for reasons I still can’t understand) so they took a risk and made a batch of them and lucked out and sold them all.
The longer tubes though have only had very minor interest in the big picture. Selling 100 of them is anything but certain. So I have not pushed it, I have to apply business sense to the things I request and I can’t promise them they will sell an entire batch of long tubes.
If someone could show enough interest that 100+ tubes + carriers would sell at a probable price of ~$30+, then I could talk to them about it but I find this unlikely.
2: We are already driving the XHP70.2 quite hard as it is, more power will only give minor gains in output and a lot more stress on the LED. So the chances of killing the LED go up a lot. Personally I just leave my springs stock.
Texas_Ace, I think the interest on the shorty tube, at least for me, was more comical than practical. When I saw the picture of the GT with the shorty tube, I just had to laugh at how ridiculous and funny it looked, so I got it.
Now, the longer tube has the practicality of longer run-time, and for me, I like the optional position for carrying the GT over the shoulder, with the tube resting on the shoulder while hiking or long walks. I’m sure it would also make one grin.
lol, I can understand the comical side of the short tube.
The long tube is the one I actually would of backed myself, while it would make the light too heavy to carry without a strap, it would be practical with a strap.
Like I said, if the interest was shown for a 3 carrier tube at the $30-$40 price point (seeing as it must include a carrier as well), I bet we could get them made.
It would need at the very least 100 interested parties though.
The short tubes were much less of a risk since they were only $10, a lot of people would buy them just because they were so cheap and only use them once. Not so easy with a $30+ battery tube.
Are they shipping the lights to the US in batches ?
I ordered and paid for my GT70 on Aug 30
(Order: #900112870)
I still have not seen it or been updated on the shipping time
We suggested this at first actually but the first carrier design they wanted to use would not work with it very easily. After all was said and done, we just never brought it back up.
Any GT70 guys , CW, who de-domed… Can you PM me?
I think this is the direction I am going… 10-15% loss of 8000 lumens, while stretching the throw closer to the original GT…Tint shift, not a biggie to me… Best of both worlds?
If you registered when you purchased at lumintoponline dot com, you can sign in and check your order status. My order status is ‘Wait For Shipping’. But I ordered much later than you - Sept. 12th.
Lumintops website doesn’t seem very secure and they ask for most of your info before allowing the PayPal transaction. Am I doing something wrong or is it safer than I’m thinking?