I guess
This is a problem with the internal work of Lumintop
This user manual is probably not written by LUMINTOP. (?)
Just like GT, it is written by BLF members.
When Lumintop is getting stronger and stronger
The organization and division of labor within the company should be more detailed.
Yeah I quite know how they workā¦ Iāve done some translation for them, user manuals mostly.
They kept promise me a GT for reviewā¦ Iāve never got it. And of course, I never had other models to review since this. Basically I worked for free.
Yet I trusted them once more for the GT miniā¦
I donāt know why it doesnāt work, Iāve been doing this for Olight For 3 years now, never had a problem.
āWorked for freeā¦ā
Interesting, the definition of work must be eluding me. And here all this time I thought it was mattaus, wight, comychair, warhawk, toykeeper, rmm, del and their like that were doing all the heavy lifting around hereā¦
Thereās no mechanical tail switch here, right?
Iām beginning to wonder why all the side switch lights use the electronic switchā¦ essentially this leaves full power running up to the emitter at all times in a āsleepā mode when off. Have I forgotten why a mini Omten isnāt used as a side switch, breaking the positive flow instead of the usual negative interruption? Was just thinking, probably dangerous I knowā¦.
With a mechanical side switch, like in the Little Dipper series, you canāt use the press and hold for ramping. You would be limited to the tail clicky UIās.
With the e-switch you do get some parasitic drain since the MCU needs to monitor the switch circuit, but usually that drain is very low like on the Q8 and GT. For a light sitting on a shelf most of the time I just turn the tail cap to break the circuit. No worries of drain then.
I do remember hearing of a ramping UI that used a clicky switch. You would half press to start it ramping then another half press to stop it. I recall they said it was pretty clunky to use. It might have been from ToyKeeper or Tom E.
Itās not switch circuitry, itās driver circuitry.
I think the parasitic drain on the 3 lights mentioned (with switch leds turned off) are a bit higher than the self discharging rate of the battery. It would still take years to fully discharge.
Not too many. Some people just like certain things.
Certain drivers have ultra low electronic switch parasitic drain. Only a few though. If one is planning to use a different driver then things change, parasitic drains can become quite large.
I asked because I may be changing the driver in my GT mini and it may be preferable due to the UI for me to use a mechanical switch. The SS ring around the rubber boot is press fit in the GT mini, not recommended to remove it and Iām sure it wouldnāt be easy to do, might even be loose upon trying to reassemble. Still though, it may be possible to approach the situation from another angleā¦.