Lumintop GT micro

Still unfulfilled as of this afternoon… :weary:

Weh mir, oh weh…

My two GT micro lights and batteries just arrives.
Small… :slight_smile:
Tested and they both looks fine.
(A little “flickering” on both, at the lower end of the ramp, and then it stops.) !!??
Thanks to all involved.

The little flicker might be when it switches from the FET to the 7135. I can see it in mine as well. It’s barely noticable.

Also keep in mind that narsil gives a single quick blink at the bottom and top of the ramp. This might be what you’re describing, the blink at the bottom.

I forget, is this a FET + 1? I think so.

Mine are to be delivered today via DHL, the wait continues…. lol

Yes, sounds like the normal fast blink to show you reached the max or min.

I'm finding this little bugger can throw pretty well. It's beating my D1 with the D1 having a big advantage of an 18650 cell. Of course the problem is the Micro won't last for very long...

DHL just left, I eagerly rushed in the house and ripped open the bag, cut the tape on the box inside, pulled out the bubble wrapped black box… huh? A Fireflies box? Not 2 GT Micro’s? Nope, a black Fireflies E07 with a Samsung 40T inside it.

:person_facepalming:

I paid $90 for an E07 with a cell.

And the wait continues…

Actually, looking at the Fireflies website this particular light and with DHL shipping comes to $105 so someone is probably mad to have only gotten 2 GT Micro’s in their package. lol

This is a matte black E07 with XP-L HI 6500K emitters and the Samsung 40T inside. That’s a $20 extra for the emitters and $15 extra for the cell. Not sure how Neal is going to work that out but…

I wonder if the one with the wrong 2 Micro’s is going to report here. If he lives around the corner, a swap is easy and Neal is lucky.

While that sounds good and all, the likelihood is quite slim. I’d be game to get it swapped out if the other party is even in the US, reckon we’ll figure all that out when he finds out what happened.

I missed this post earlier. Did you ever get a copy of the code for this light?

There have been a handful lights lately where I haven’t found any indication of distributors actually following the license. Sometimes I try to chase these down and work toward a resolution, sometimes I put it on my todo list and then never get to it. It’s not really supposed to be my responsibility though, or yours, unless we’re actually involved in making the light.

This helps, but it may be a good idea to look over the license again. It allows for several solutions, but this isn’t one of them. The closest method is shown in section 6c:

For commercial purposes, a less ad-hoc method is needed. Ideally, the info and links should be posted somewhere visible to the public and easily discoverable, like on the manufacturer’s page for the product and on the retailers’ sites. However, it can also work to put that info in the manual or otherwise on materials which ship with the light. Specifically, it needs to be somewhere “prominent”… hard to miss… having a quality that thrusts itself into attention… conspicuous in position or importance.

The companies involved typically aren’t aware of this though, so it’s kind of up to us (whoever is working with those companies) to make sure it happens.

A prominent notice and a copy of the code.

And, although not legally required, it’s generally nice to let the upstream author(s) know about it, try to get any changes merged back into the upstream code, and link to their project. Not just for the warm fuzzies, but also in the interests of keeping things clean and straightforward.

Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away

It is what it is…

Mine shipped, will update when it arrives

Oh boy, this was a while back - think I did. Bogged down with too much stuff as of late - can't keep up.

Yeah, I'd like a direct link to the code posted, as it should be. Most seem to post links to the repository, then it's up to the user to make the best guess. For me, that's not the intent - we need a direct link to the exact code that created the HEX file, or binaries that is programmed into the light - nothing short of that, and that seems like it can't be achieved for some reason... But if you, me, TA, or Lexel are the code providers, seems like they don't communicate back to us, so we don't even know what version we gave them they actually used. I "think" Hank is doing that, but weird it's only on the D4 listing and the page is in Chinese, so, could be the same binaries for all his lights he's shipping.

I have wanted to include links with every light I have worked on but one thing or another prevented it.

For a lot of the lights I have worked on such as the MT09R there was no official website for it to be hosted on and no link to be included in the manual. Or they didn’t use the manual we sent anyways.

For others like the GT series while there is a website there is a massive disconnect between the people I talk to and those running the website. Even getting basic specs corrected on the site proved a big undertaking.

Trying to get a file hosted and a link added was a lesson in futility I came to find. Not having a link was the reason one was not included in the manual as well, this was the plan at first but with no where to host it there was simply no link to include in the manual.

The S43 was released before I even knew the project was moving forward, so I never had a say in that at all. Banggood is just too spread out and no one has the power to do anything it seems.

The MF01 still doesn’t have a final firmware, so there is an issue of even having something to upload before the manuals are printed and I have not tried to figure out hosting said file yet since they don’t have a website of their own.

I am happy to include a link in the manual when thy actually use the manuals we provide but actually getting the file hosted so there can be a link has proven the real issue for this. Getting the link included on the product page would also be possible if there was a file to link to in many cases.

I am aware that posting the firmware randomly in the product threads is far from ideal but I simply have not been able to find a better option. If you have one I am all ears.

Well, if the code is archived in a repository, why not have Martin update the opening thread with a link to the code, so at least those searching for info on this light will find this thread and thus a link to the code on page 1? Again, not ideal, but it’s better than what it is now, which is nil. I’m sure there are threads for all the above lights, and links could be added there too.

This is basically what has been happening, I have been posting the firmware in the random threads for each light, it just tends to get lost in them.

I actually did not make the firmware or driver for this light, Schoki did both, he just used the TA layout and my version of Narsil as the base for it.

I don’t know that I ever got the source code for this light, I need to check on that come to think of it.

That’s cool… though my suggestion is to have the link in the opening post (will need the poster to edit said post) this way at least we’ll all know that the source code is in the opening post for threads like these. Making it at least easier to find, rather than digging through pages and pages.

May also help to collaborate with reviewers of such lights; that they can add a link to the source code. They can also do it in the comments section on YouTube as well. We have a few guys that regularly review lights; I can’t see why they wouldn’t do it?!

if i get those links i will add them of course!

Looks like I was mistaken, Schoki made the driver and I assumed he made the firmware as well since there was no firmware in my archive for this light. Turns out he did not send it either, it seems they used the GT-mini firmware on the GT micro.

I think TK has this already but not sure if it is in the repo yet. Here it is again though

404 page not found, you sure you got the right link? (or was I just too fast)

Edit: yes I was