I remember reading in one of the posts in this forum or at the other forum some years ago about rechargable lithium batteries exploding inside the flashlight.
The explosion caused the flashlight’s end cap to shoot out like a bullet and fortunately just hit a wall.
The story I saw on the other forums was where the light got insanely hot all of a sudden so the user dropped it at which point it blew up and ended up putting a pretty big dent in the bottom track (likely alloy) of their sliding door from the end cap or the head shooting off under immense pressure. They then had to deal with hydrofluoric acid inhalation and potential poisoning. Not fun.
I think battery technology has come a long way since then so I am not overly worried. You’ll hear of vapers popping their toys before us flashaholics!
Picked up in Singapore late Friday night (AEST) and delivered today, Monday, at about 1pm. Not bad DHL! Obviously it went out after the US shipments or the service they used to get it to DHL in Singapore was a bit slow. Either way, I can’t complain about that!
So…the GT70…hmm what a beast. My biggest light up until now was a Thrunite TN40 which is just dwarfed by this gigantic monster.
As for springs, mine all seem fine. Ordered batteries seperate so obviously no damaged cells.
The lens had a big spot of moisture (looked foggy like some lights get after a while on high) on the inside of the lens, dead centre, about 3cm in diameter. Turning on the light for a few seconds of turbo a couple of times and it has disappeared. I’ll keep an eye on that, hopefully don’t have to use some silica gel packs to dry it out.
Now, onto the reflector, there is a noticeable deformity on the coating but doesn’t appear to show up in use. It looks like a tiny ripple and has to be moved around to be seen but if you know it is there, it is really easy to spot. I am less concerned about this than the possible moisture trapped in the head but will have a better look when it gets dark to see if I can see any artifacts in the beam. From what I have heard about the past issues with original GT release, this is nothing to worry about as some of those were reportedly quite bad. I don’t have a good camera and my galaxy S9 doesn’t pick the defect up unfortunately or I would share images.
I didn’t make the shirt. People did discuss printing it upside-down though, to make it easier to read while wearing it.
After people received the lights they ordered, and were able to try the interface, the shirt thing really faded away. People thought at first it would be complicated or confusing to use, but then they tried it and realized it’s simple. So, no need for a wearable reference chart.
The toxic lithium chemical leaks or fumes are things I want to avoid happening near me or in my house.
The bad effects to the body of the lithium chemicals or fumes and cleanup of the toxic mess are not fun things to me.
If I can’t use protected lithium batteries, it’s comforting to know that my flashlight have safety features that would prevent the battery from over-discharge that may cause those unwanted events.
I feel more confident in using this flashlight after reading JasonWW’s detailed explanation of the BLF GT70’s safety features.
I’m going to ask one more time. Are there any plans to offer spare parts for the GT70?. Like switches, driver boards, lenses, etc? It’s an expensive flashlight. I want to be able to fix it if something goes wrong.
That is a very strange issues, I have not seen that before on a quality reflector like this.
It is also something that would easily slip through QC unless you were looking for it so pretty much positive that it is just a case of someone not seeing it and not lumintop using lower grade parts.
Contact leo for sure, they should send you a replacement.
Boy that would be horrific to find out that we are getting factory second lights and BG is getting the A+ lights, just a thought because there is no way I could see Lumin ever doing that to us.
I see this product everywhere for sale and I always thought that when our team designs and has a GB that our members are all taken care of first and then it goes for public sales, I could be wrong or maybe a different agreement was made.
I’ve been fortunate since the first run and have gotten some pretty good reflectors compared to what I’ve seen in some pics since Dec. 2017, still has some spin ripples I believe it is but you have to look close for them.
And Lumin said they are worried about shipping a reflector by itself, it might get damaged, perhaps they should worry about shipping reflectors in the lights as well.?
Only thing that got me was those darn springs, had one stab deep into my finger the other night while looking for the springs that messed up some of my cells, 3 out of 8 cells I’ve gotten rid of and I bought 16 new from Liions, also been using my small file to file down the ends of all my springs to remove a 45 degree angled cut on the wire ends, that angle made those very sharp and some were turned upward not your normal 90 degree bend and that’s what caused what you saw in that one picture, that one spring could have worked a hole through that negative end for sure eventually, then I used my Smith Little torch to direct heat and bend the spring wire back down where it should have been, fairly difficult to do.
So that should fix my spring problems, nice and smooth now and all around fantastic light, now I just need to find a different LED,
I think I’ll get in touch with RMM and see if he will do the same thing he offered for the XHP35’s…
Thank you again TA for all your very hard work on this project, it is greatly appreciated…!!