It was brought up before but they didn’t really bite.
It is possible they could make a rin to allow you to connect a short tube to the end of the normal tube but I am not sure if the total length will be correct to still press the carriers against the driver properly.
Does anyone know? I don’t have a short tube myself, I always thought they were silly on a light this size.
At 2450 meters of throw make sure you buy a good pair of binoculars to see whats down there……. I was using a TN42 VN in a Texas hunt and spoted a Coyote…… 700 yards away in total darkness, saw his eye balls blinking……… Then Bam…… So the GT or the GT 70 should be good for this……
Please add me to the list with issues : I ordered 2 GTs, short tube, bag, shoulder strap and 2 cover caps. Received everything except one cap ( received one cap instead of two ).
No big issue, no complain ( ), I already sent an email to Neal asking if he could ship another cap with the snail mail.
The GT measures a bit less at the further distance. Interesting.
Crees emitter bins have a tolerance of 14. So you can have the exact same bin and at 2000 lumen 14 would be 280 lumen.
So you could measure one D4 1A at 1860 lumen and another D4 1A at 2140 lumen. This is the outer limits of their tolerance, but still in spec.
Emitter tolerances might be playing a small role in the different lux readings, another would be the little bit of extra amperage the MF04S is giving. I think 0.2A (2.5A vs 2.7A)
I think the MF04 reflector is just a couple mm bigger, not much at all. Maybe that is also a very small factor.
IIRC the MF04 was around 10mm larger, which is fairly significant. They might also be using an E2 bin emitter.
Plus I have noticed that XHP35’s vary widely in performance compared to many other cree LED’s. They really seem to stress the tolerance limits of the bin more then most.