That does seem a bit long. Once it gets into the hands of DHL they can typically ship it to your door within 3 business days. The big variable is the time it takes to go from Lumintop to their third-party shipper and then to DHL. This can take from a few days to maybe 2 weeks. Maybe TA has a shipping update.
Is there any chance to buy a short battery tube for the GT (70) at the moment ?
BG doesnt really show if its available at the moment.
Would be great, to make this light somewhat “carryable”. It would fit into my backpack (sideways) and I would be able to carry this light with me (on tours). I visit bunkers, mines, huge factorys at night and this light would be great for some long range illumination.
This would make the light more useful for me, apart from being an “oversized toy” with limited practical use.
My intentions is not really to try and squeeze out more juice, but to make sure they didn’t use that crap white rubbery thermal paste, and that the LED has got enough heatsinking behind it so that it can handle the heat. I modified my BTU Shocker into a SuperShocker over the weekend, and I was surprised at the crap thermal paste, very thin LED shelf and big unutilized gap between the LED shelf and the driver. Filling that with copper or even aluminium will help the LEDs a lot, and I was wondering how the BLF GT70 would compare.
There are 150 different levels. The run times will vary depending on the level and whether your using 4 or 8 batteries and what type of batteries. That’s about all I can tell you. I’m not sure about specific run times.
The white thermal paste is really not that bad in my testing. When it comes to OTF lumens, it made virtually no difference. Heck with enough clamping pressure no thermal paste at all was only a few lumens behind.