That’s a pity. Most mountaineering gear is expensive, so a good light weight and versatile lantern should be worth the investment.
I don’t see myself charging a camplight while mountaineering. You could simply use a micro usb rechargeable cell if you would like that.
However being flexible with your available energy and charge your GPS from a lantern seems nice. It would cancel the need of a powerbank and save that extra weight. Since every gram counts, I guess I would opt for a silicone diffuser instead.
However the LT1 is very nice, so I will subscribe to this thread regardless.
I wonder what great light you come up with this time :+1:
Update,01,28,2020)
Sofirm sent a couple host lights to work on designing a BLF LT1 Mini project from, one was a SP33, and the other was the IF25. after picking both apart, studying ideas, on boht of the lights, i came to the conclusion the IF25 is a great start host, as it already has tint-ramping, USB-C charging, and single 21700 or 18650 format size. I am currently designing & testing many head diffusers & shades ideas, and working to keep this smaller LT1 as the upfiring factory design, but with a very unique head i designed & am testing. stay tuned for the upcoming video of the birth of the LT1M, the more pocketable, hiker & backpack friendly compact Mini LT1
Teaser photo below of the V1 prototype of the LT1M. I hope we can keep the price point of this smaller variant low like the MSRP of the original IF25 it is based from, and will have tint ramping, USB-C charging, and use the same Andruil firmware if we can shoe-horn Toykeeper’s amazing firmware of the LT1 into the Mini.
Probably between 325 to 400 lumens on maximum, (testing is underway with heat and running the host using a 4000 mAh 21700 to determine average run times, heat lad, etc. While the IF25 specs stated an average of 300 to 325 lumens on mode Med#2, and 6.2 hours on the 4000mAh cell from the factory, (they stated 240 lumens on 2700K and 450 lumens on 6500K tint settings at the ramp-ends. Their high mode they claimed 660/1100 lumens for 2.8 hours @ 2700K/6500K (but that’s out the front as a flashlight. In this case as a diffused lantern that output will be lower. If we can achieve 350 lumens with a high mode/mixed tint around 4000K/and get to 5 hours run time average with Audruil firmware, that would be great for such a small version of the LT1.
As you know, I love the lt1s I have. and you may also know I wish it had a powerbank function. if it also had a flashlight function it would be exactly perfect.
Well now with this one, flashlight and powerbank function without being too long would make it perfect as well.