Pommie, I had the same thing going on with the two I bought, I started with Harbor Freight strap wrenches but had to buy two sets just so I would have 2 large wrenches and snapped both of those, then bought some other of Amazon and broke them as well.
I’ve seen this wrench mentioned before on one of the GT threads but this is definitely worth mentioning again because with this wrench the GT came apart easily.
It’s on Amazon called the BOA Constrictor, it’s more expensive than the others but it works great, BOA strap wrench
Edit: You might need 2 of them really, but it worked well using the big Harbor Freight strap wrench to hold the light in place and this BOA for for breaking the bezel and heat fin sections apart.
Knowing the person I borrowed them from they would be mid priced, not top quality but they were all metal so not cheap either, all I have to do now is ask that person what I owe him to buy two replacements :money_mouth_face:
I will find a way, even if I damage it more :smiling_imp: I got it to mod which I cannot do if I can’t get into it.
Now I have found a dead led-die on my gt. I can see it with my eyes if I look to the LED at the lowest mode.
Is this the first DOA-GT?
Thats hard to check for Lumintop and to notice that fault.
Here you can see the spot at a distance of 1.5m:
I put a lens on the GT to show the LED better:
And here you can see, what the lens is projecting:
Well if one of the four dies is less efficient you geht less light for the same current.
Maybe it was on the edge off the spec when Cree selected the four dies?
Well, it is sure not nice, but dead on arrival?
Versuch mal die LED direkt zu fotografieren, unterbelichtet und mit nem ND-Filter
Very strange indeed, this is also the first I have heard of any major issues with any GT so far. Everything else have been minor things.
Like they said, it is very strange that 1 die would burn out while the rest still work. Can you get a picture of the LED itself? Maybe on moon mode as well.
It is hard to make any good picture with my Nokia 808 PureView Cellphone. But I made some.
I did not have an other camera, only a small old Exilim EX-H10, which makes worse pictures as my cellphone. It has only a small 12MP CCD-Sensor. My Cellphone-Sensor is 1/1,2” big CMOS with 38MP.
Last two pics with the same orientation. You can see the bonding wires.