I donāt like the gold clip and I have my concerns about heat dissaptionā¦ but I love the Tool AA and Iāve been looking to get my first Ti light. So I just placed order. Thanks for the coupon, Lumintop!
Would be nice if Lumintop could make the different LED pills available, iād like the ability to swap the LEDs without soldering etc. having the pills and extaraction tool available would be a nice touch.
I would guess yes but with a 14500 installed it should charge faster with the higher voltage. With a AA battery I would assume about the the same time as the AAA.
It should be the same circuit the AAA Tool uses but weāll have to wait until someone has one in hand to confirm that.
The AAA tool has no current limiting resistor for the Super Cap that I could find. Some have a 1K bleed resistor on the driver that could be limiting charge current but I also have AAA tools that dont have the resistor, just the empty pads where the resistor is supposed to be. I think that since the voltage of a AAA battery is so low its limited by the battery itself. The Drop Vega will take 14500ās so Iām assuming the new switch pcb will have a charge current limiting resistor on it. I got 2 Vegas on order, Iāll post up what I find when they get here. Still waiting on a shipping confirmation.
I would as some other users very much appreciate if this light would have no memory mode, especially since there aren't so many brightness steps anyways, so it wouldn't be so hard to get all the way to the highest output from powering it on.
Another suggestion would be to use a least powerful emitter, at least as an option to choose from, like an XP-E2 or an XP-G2 for example. The current XP-L/2 emitter is way too powerful for the small thermal mass of the body of this light, not to mention it's a titanium build, not copper or aluminum.
Instead of the 6 taps for strobe, I could do without it and take a battery check for 3 clicks. Maybe consider running the Biscotti firmware, as it has quite a few mode groups as well. That would be a great interface for a clicky light. Or maybe even the BLF A6 UI. Both of these UI's have a battery check function and for such a small cell, knowing how much charge is left in it is a must.
As other users mentioned before, the more options, the merrier, so selling some separate pocket clips in various colors, ex. blue, would be great, maybe even different color tail switch rubber caps and why not, pills with different emitter choices and the drivers to suit the power requirements of those emitters (please, again, option to disable the memory)