Banggood tends to offer tiers of responses in order to get things cleared up quickly and cheaply. First they want you to do a video hoping some people wonāt and give up. Next they may offer a small refund hoping you will accept and some people do. You have to be firm and stick it out and eventually they will get to a satisfactory resolution.
This seems to be how a lot of Chinese companies work to resolve issues. They try to wear you down. Lol. You just have to realize what their doing and donāt give up.
Yup, I know thatā¦ obviously not my first with them lol
I sent pics (lol), a video showing the switch malfunction, and explanation.
They promised a response before 48Hā¦ so I contact them again after 72H
Iām not really surprised that they tried to buy me with 10ā¬ refund, I know how it works
āWe are terribly sorry that we donāt support the part for you to replace it. We suggest you can accept 10 EUR and 200 points to repair it. Please understand that what we do is to help you solve the problem as soon as possible.ā
I just received an Email from Neil. He is going to send me a replacement head. I will post an update when I receive and test the new head when it comes.
Hello!
Got my GTmini just today.
The button is not highlighted symmetrically, but for me it is not critical.
Green light of the button stop work after some minutes.
I wanted to ask people, did everyone get short bodys?
Because in my kit there was no short body for 18340.
But on the BG page a short body is declared in the kit.
Silent_Star interesting observation didnt see that, i dont think a short tube is included default i thought it was sold as spare extras? sad u got a defective light, it seems more and more of those issues will pop up I think a large batch of the first lights will show defective switch, if for one day or in my case almost a month it took for it to go badā¦
It says on banggood page,
Package included:
1 x Lumintop GTmini XPL HI 1200LM Stepless Dimming LED Flashlight
1 x Spare waterproof O-rings
1 x Lanyard
1 x Manual
I finally got time to play with my GT Mini and compare it with my favourite walking light - UTorch UT02.
I used to love UT02 because:
the beam has just perfect proportions, hotspot size is right just like spill angle
performance is not earth shattering but nevertheless very good
Though I use my current one much less than before since I accidentally ripped off the flimsy USB port cover and had to seek it in gravel with nothing but a thrower.
I was unable to prepare properly for that.
UT02 used a partially charged Lii-50A. It didnāt matter, the boost driver deals with it easily.
GT Mini used a high-resistance Lumintop LM34C charged to 4.04V. Certainly less performant than it could be.
Spot size? Very similar, GT Mini has it slightly smaller.
Spill angle? The same.
Throw? GT Mini clearly won here.
Overall it shows that my UT02 really deserves doubling LED current. And maybe swapping an E2 (if I only got itā¦ā¦).
And it shows that GT Mini is an amazing performer. Way smaller. Lighter. Better UI.
I knew that GT Mini would be my EDC thrower. With 18350. I imagined putting some throwy Osram LED in it at some point.
But that would make it less good for walking. Iām seriously tempted to get anotherā¦.
My Mini GT just arrived through Banggood. Everything seems normal for now, no issues whatsoever. Iāll keep using heavily for the next couple of days and see if anything happens. Letās hope not.