(prototype) the GT Mini

This has been discussed before. Was it not in this thread? Maybe it was another GT Mini thread. Itā€™s just a quirk.

Thank you Jason for your help!

Ok thanks

It was talked about in this very thread 2 weeks ago.

Thanks for your patience Jason. I read the whole thread before I had the light in my hands and somehow I forgot it was mentioned here. Guess Iā€™m getting old. And like chadvone said, I too find it annoying this glitch.

No sweat, I forget stuff all the time. :smiley:

does anyone know what size mcpcb the GT mini uses?

Thanks! Another message sent to Neal. I'll keep you updated.



my early sample was 16mm, buzt ZozzV6 had several open and says they are 20mm

i bought a SST-40 led for my GTmino but i canā€™t seem to remove the bezel, how did you guys do it?

Hi, Is it possible somehow fix or rotate rubber switch cover, because it's rottated too much to the left?

"foto":https://imgur.com/a/qIwBw3i

You can pry the press fit retaining ring up & rotate the switch cover / switch to your liking. That might be more trouble than it is worth thoughā€¦. but that depends on how much it bothers you.

You mean i need to rotate a silver ring with some tweezers and not a rubber cover?

No, the ā€œsilver ringā€ (retaining ring) is holding the ā€œrubber coverā€ in place. To rotate the rubber cover you must loosen or remove the retaining ring. Then rotate the rubber cover & press the retaining ring in again to hold the cover.

The retaining ring is a ā€˜press fitā€™ so you must somehow pry it out to remove it.

IIRC someone in this thread showed how they did it, pictures included. I do not have time to hunt it up now. But if you have not found it by the time I get back home Iā€™ll find it & post it here.

Sometimes you need to use a heat gun to heat up the bezel and soften the threadlocker, then use a pair of rubber strap wrenches to rotate in opposite directions. The amount of threadlocker will determine how tight it is and if heat is needed.

Sometimes even a heat gun is not hot enough and you need a blowtorch, while being careful not to discolour the anodisation.

Is it normal that when a gt mini is turned off, led still glows like a moon mode, donā€™t know maybe 1 or 2 or 3 lux, so i can light a watch and see whatā€™s the time, also can clearly see a spot on a white wall.
Even if i lock a torch with a 4 press of a button, so the green led on a button goes off, but xpl-hi led still glows a little, so itā€™s impossible that an xpl-hi led is iluminated a little from a button led.
Do you think i need to RMA it , because i have befor this one another gt mini NW, but i didnā€™t see that a main led shines even if a torch is off.
In manuals it writes that a parasitic drain is around 27micro A but on my torch parasitic drain is when a torch is off 4.3mili A.
Is this a problem with a driver or with a led?

if you lockout the tailcap for a minute and then reconnect - does the led glow before you hit the switch first time too?

Yes, as fast as i turn down a tailcap, led blinks two times and then dim glows, i donā€™t need to push a power button.

No, that is not normal. When the light is OFF, the LED should be OFF.