(prototype) the GT Mini

Good for you P33…… :+1: . Glad you figured it out.

Hmmmm…… ??? . Hopefully Neal will reply & have some idea……
To bad the bezel is glued tight…… :person_facepalming:

I’m having some problems. The switch behaves strangely sometimes. It started working fine a few days ago when I loosened bezel a tiny bit. I opened it again today removed the reflector to check something and put it back and it started doing random things again. Like not not detecting clicks and sometimes detecting two. It seems to fix itself sometimes but then starts malfunctioning again.

sounds like the problem me and and a few got in here, i would ask for replacement head.

Yep… Where did you buy yours Th558?

Banggood

For some reason the highest current I can get from a 30q is 3 amps. This is with a mustool MT66 with some AC mains cables instead of stock leads. With an LG MJ1 I got about 3.8 amps. The led looks brighter aswell compared to my L16. The button is slightly off center on the 30qs so could this be what’s causing the problem? I don’t even know if I’m meant to be using button tops in the first place but that is what it states on banggoods page.

Multimeters are no good for amp draws. They almost always read low, especially as the current increases they become more inaccurate. You need a clamp meter.

Unless I missed someone, I count 18 people to date who have posted about switch problems. They are….

  • djozz // Reported RESOLVED
  • mortuus // RESOLVED
  • teacher // RESOLVED
  • RobertB // Reported RESOLVED
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  • gabo // RESOLVED
  • Cereal_killer /
  • Jhicks2018 // RESOLVED
  • P33 / // RESOLVED (“partial refund” reported)
  • Coyotehawk
  • X3 / // RESOLVED (PayPal dispute refund)
  • illuminos
  • Silent_Star /
  • Juheebus / // RESOLVED (Replacement head)
  • mb200k
  • Pulstar // RESOLVED
  • A92AA0B03E / // RESOLVED (Replacement head)
  • komeko // RESOLVED <span class=“+ “HERE”:(prototype) the GT Mini - #1417 by komeko +explained refund… & dispute PayPal”>
  • Th558 /

Anyone else having any type GT Mini switch problems besides the people I mentioned above??
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List updated. Th558 Added, 5 January 2019

I’d like to ask a question I couldn’t get an answer elsewhere. I just could find one runtime graphic on google, showing that the GT mini steps down to around 10% of the output in the first 3 minutes? Can anyone confirm that? Thank you.

hm yes it does stepdown, but not to like 10%, a few hundreds lumens less but how much i cant say exactly.

Has anybody measured and plotted a runtime graphic?

My GT mini has just arrived, I’m in China right now and bought directly from Lumintop. I got the neutral white version. I like it so far, waiting to get dark to test it.

I don’t know if I got lucky, but the flat on the body is perfectly aligned with the button.

I have not seen any for this light.

ZeroAir’s review of the GT Mini has a runtime graph…

However, the GT Mini sample ZeroAir got appears to have a lower max current (his measured lux/throw are lower than spec), I believe his sample may be one of the few reported to have lower current (GT Mini supposed to have 5.5-6Amps on max FET; but there are reports of people getting only 3-4.5 amps, thus not hitting the rated throw of 700+ meters)…

AFAIK, the maximum current on unmodified GT Minis was about 4.5A. Mine reaches up to 6.2A now with bypassed springs.

My CW light is stock. With a 30Q I see 5.5A. Maybe it was the NW lights that drew around 4.5A max?

That's possible as I have bought the NW version. According to Banggood it's up to 17W / 4.5A

"Use 17W, 4.5A FET drive, standby current is 27μA when shutting down"

https://usa.banggood.com/Lumintop-BLF-GT-mini-18650-LED-Flashlight-Portable-Mini-Torch-Camping-Light-p-1335341.html

My NW light is stock. With a 30Q I see 5.8A

Because of the rattling in one of my GT Mini's I didn't use that light. Now that I started playing with it I discovered that there are more problems with this light. Sometimes when I push the switch nothing happens. Then when switched on it sometimes jumps straight to turbo mode.