Uh, yeah I forgot to insert an emoji… Although I’m sure interest for GT Femto would be rather high…
As a lurker before joining, I never understood GigaThrower (which I assume GT came from) as that would assume 1 billion candela. Mega Thrower (MT) probably would be the more appropriate name! The Carlisle Finch 2500W searchlight does 177 million candela; even that wouldn’t be a true GigaThrower! The Luxor SkyBeam is about 40 billion candela - a true giga-thrower! Maybe we could develop the TeraThrower (BLF-TT!)
At least we know the naming protocol has a lot of headroom!
As far as the “scale…” I’m < joking, but > serious…
I just got my prototype GT micro in yesterday and I have to say, I like it. A nice little pocket thrower.
The throw ratings they gave are spot on what I got, I got 52kcd and 457m of throw on my sample.
Although the lumens are a bit lower, I got 900 lumens dropping to ~800. They are using VERY thin LED wires right now though and the tailcap springs could be a bit lower resistance.
I told them to use 24awg wire on the LED, that should bump the output up some so it could be rated at 850-900 lumens (technically it could now but that is not how I do things).
The thermals are surprisingly good as well, Took quite some time for it to heat up enough to thermal throttle and by that point the cell was at the point of LVP, so not sure which one it was that caused it to step down but think it might of been the LVP.
I have to say, it looks pretty good for a prototype.
I am not sure, after china new year for sure. So at least another month, most likely a bit longer then that.
Also, not sure if it was mentioned before but the driver in this light was designed by Schoki, it just uses the TA design. He was going to make a really really cool boost / FET combo driver for this light that would of worked with both AA / 14500 but time constraints prevented that from happening in time so we had to revert to a 14500 only driver.
Hmm, maybe for a rev2 Schoki’s driver is ready then, it is still a holy grail for flashaholics.
After a quick calculation, 52 kcd with a XP-L Hi makes perfect sense, and from my mods sofar with the 1mm2 White Flat (so without cutting edge driving and focusing) I reckon 100 kcd will be achieved.
Wow, old thread. Interesting though. If you work out a way to get 100K out of this light, I’m extremely interested. No need for the V2 driver, I’ll only be running 14500’s.
Dangit, you’ve triggered my addiction again. My girlfriend is giggling hard. And whapping me up-side the head. As usual.
. Dang, darn patent lawyers! Well, lawyers in general! 
