UPDATES: It appears that the first shipment went out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid for cost reasons. Initial quality has been fantastic.
The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 23. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 576th person on the paid list that did not include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th. DHL shipping was very fast.
There should be a European order going out in January.
The next group to purchase lights (#1000 and up on the list) will get their emails mid January instead of early January in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.
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M4D M4X: You can buy 8 of the button top Samsung 35E batteries (seem ideal, high mAh and good amps) for $40 when you buy your GT. No sign up required for these. Battery details are here.
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Coyotehawk will add your name to his sign up list. You’ll see your name when he does the next update. It will be sometime mid January when you are emailed with the details of where to go and how to order.
You can also buy 8 of the Samsung 35E batteries for $40 at the same time as you buy the light. No sign up necessary for those. There are plenty of batteries in stock.
same here alex
seems mine is a tad under driven also
i get 240 all day long on my tn42
both my gt lights get exactly 200, every single time
same xhp35, both lights very deep reflectors
i would rather mine be a tad over driven, and have to back it off manually, when the heat got a tad strong
I think this type of handle would be the best for the application. Anti-scratch, adjustable, universal for other throwers, easily stowed flat, comfortable...etc. YMMV
The LED in the GT is overdriven already. It is run at 2.5A in turbo which is about as high as is practical before rapidly diminishing returns.
You could swap the sense resistor and raise it to 3A if you really wanted but you would only gain a small amount for the first little bit until the LED heated up.
The biggest reason for the lower readings then other lights is that the GT is using a Neutral white 4000k emitter vs the CW ~6500k emitter in most other lights.
The lux meters we use are biased to the cooler white range and will artificially inflate those numbers.
The stock LED is a D4 bin. The highest bin that Cree lists in the data sheet is E2, which is 1 bin above D4. Or about 7% higher output. So 7% higher is about the most you can expect with another LED, everything else should be the meter bias.
This is another point, the concentrated beam of the GT could also effect the way the light bounced and cause less light to reflect at all, skewing your readings further.
Basically the LED in the GT is driven as hard as is practical for a production light, harder then most other lights, including the tn42 (it is driven at 2.25A IIRC). So you won’t get much more out of another LED, I wish we could. The only real improvement is going with an E2 bin LED for a 7% improvement. Which we could not source for the GT due to a shortage of NW E2 LED’s.
Damn, I’m going to regret joining this forum real soon ( I got my first LED flash light only ~ 2 months ago, a brand new old stock TN32, got me addicted to LED flash lights already ). Please put me down for a 2nd GT ( even if I didn’t get the first one yet ), I should be already in the list somewhere around the position number 11xx .
PS: Happy New Year to everybody ! I wish everybody and their close ones to be healthy, the rest is bonus