(prototype) the GT Mini

“4.5A” - Excited!
“…not be replaceable.” - Confused and sad

I think Al’s facial expression was my roller coaster of emotion :laughing:

This… is exactly what I was thinking… right before I bought one. :slight_smile:

If the factory driver has the switch mounted to it, your aftermarket driver would need to be custom designed to fit a switch on it as well or so I assume.

I mentioned this theory in post 393.

Be careful assuming things Jason, I rebuild em in all manner of ways. :wink:

Edit: I’ve piggybacked a smaller driver onto the stripped former driver, retaining only the switch and re-using it. I’ve glued a switch to a completely new contact board and piggybacked my driver choice onto the new contact board. Doesn’t bother me to put a mechanical clicky in the tail cap and fore-go the e-switch altogether. Usually depends on whatever notion I get while in the process of rebuilding a light. I tend to use parts that are at hand, whatever is easiest to grab or whatever can be modified to work. All part of the challenge. :smiley:

And 4.5A is so 2 years ago. 6.7A to an XP-L HI, much closer to excitement producing. :wink:

On the other hand, buck driver is ideal for low Vf leds, like 219c or LH351D

One might would think that would be the case, but at 4.5A the LH351D is going to have a forward Voltage of around 3.5V, not a lot of headroom for the 4.2V cell especially for all those folks that don’t charge one up to 4.21V to begin with. So it’s pretty much a moot point to have the Buck driver, and especially so since the light comes equipped with an XP-L HI which are notorious for having a high Vf to begin with. Moot point. To my way of thinking, wrong choice.

Well, the 4.5A is turbo, 3.5A is top of the ramp and is probably meant to be the more practical use option.

When it comes to driver swapping, I have to look at the bigger picture, not just what one person is capable of.

BTW, I suspect Lumintops ODF30 of having a similar layout (no driver retaining ring and switch attached to driver). No one has been able to loosen the glue on the battery tube yet.

I may try to heat it up real good, but not so hot to melt the rubber button cover or discolor the finish, and see if I can use my leather welding gloves to twist that sucker apart.

any word on shipping yet?

Top off the ramp should be half the amps of TURBO, IMHO

shipping might start end of this or early next week

TA made some last improvements in the UI and Lumintop wanted to deliver all lights with that last version.

Sorry for the delay, but I am sure it's worth the wait :)

thats no problem sounds good.

/\ ……. :+1:

Awesome photo, steel_1024! :+1:

I’m looking forward to receiving my GT mini. :slight_smile:

two more of those beauty shots ;)

but this is my favorite:

The finish looks shinier than on the GT. Did they use the same finish or a different one? Maybe I’m not seeing it right.

The pics in post #1 seem to have a flatter finish which matches the GT.

The logo is definitely better than the old one.

The finish looks almost like the sand convoy c8+ i like that, steel always takes amazing photos of lights.

Lumintop should hire steel maybe to take promo pics of their newest lights.

Amen to that!!! . :+1: … His pictures are works of art…. :slight_smile:

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