That’s a pity. Most mountaineering gear is expensive, so a good light weight and versatile lantern should be worth the investment.
I don’t see myself charging a camplight while mountaineering. You could simply use a micro usb rechargeable cell if you would like that.
However being flexible with your available energy and charge your GPS from a lantern seems nice. It would cancel the need of a powerbank and save that extra weight. Since every gram counts, I guess I would opt for a silicone diffuser instead.
However the LT1 is very nice, so I will subscribe to this thread regardless.
I wonder what great light you come up with this time :+1:
Update,01,28,2020)
Sofirm sent a couple host lights to work on designing a BLF LT1 Mini project from, one was a SP33, and the other was the IF25. after picking both apart, studying ideas, on boht of the lights, i came to the conclusion the IF25 is a great start host, as it already has tint-ramping, USB-C charging, and single 21700 or 18650 format size. I am currently designing & testing many head diffusers & shades ideas, and working to keep this smaller LT1 as the upfiring factory design, but with a very unique head i designed & am testing. stay tuned for the upcoming video of the birth of the LT1M, the more pocketable, hiker & backpack friendly compact Mini LT1
Teaser photo below of the V1 prototype of the LT1M. I hope we can keep the price point of this smaller variant low like the MSRP of the original IF25 it is based from, and will have tint ramping, USB-C charging, and use the same Andruil firmware if we can shoe-horn Toykeeper’s amazing firmware of the LT1 into the Mini.