Just recharged the battery in the Ti Tool today after noticing the tail lights were either off or so dim that could not see in bright daylight and it was at 3.2 volts after about 1.5 months, it is an Efest.
Opus Charger read 543 Mah when charging complete.
Also mine will lock out with 1/4 turn of the head.
Thanks for the links with the details gchart.
For now I just removed the two surface mount resistors in the tail switch board. No more needless battery drain!
It seems every Tool Ti does that
Yes all Tool AA 2.0 models have lighted tail switches now — or at least that is what the manufacturer told me yesterday.
I got my Tool AA Ti today. It was an impulse buy and I never looked much into this thread or in Chibi’s review, but there are too many dumb features to leave this light unmodded:
So: other driver, better led, aqua switch leds at lower current, I can not fix that shelf but I will craft a new copper board that will reach the very edge to bypass that shelf (the stock board stops short of the edge).
Things to do…
Victor told me earlier they should be releasing an upgraded model with a copper head soon, i don’t have any details. (So i don’t know how heavy it will be Jos)
I really like the light, but indeed, the parasitic drain is too high, the tint of the XPL2 is ugly and it gets HOT
For now, i just twist the head for lockout so it won’t drain my cell and the reflowed high CRI SST20 makes the tint so much better (and throwier)
Interesting to hear about the copper head. While I love my Tool Ti, the all-titanium head was a bonehead move.
I also swapped my LED as soon as it arrived, along with a new tailcap that is brighter, gives my realtime battery status, and only draws like 80uA. I just wish I could do something about that gold clip without stealing one from another Tool.
THAT’S NOT COPPER DAMMIT!
When will they learn the difference between copper & brass 
Ya know what they say: brass is the new copper 
(I may be in for this one, even if it’s brass )
I like my Tool AA Ti, and I agree that it needs a better heat transfer path. But that really looks like an afterthought. Perhaps because it is? Copper or not, it looks really out of place.
CRX is on it I ordered a Tool Ti a couple weeks ago, see what I can do with it.
Hmm, you might be right about that, way to yellowish, not a sign of red copper.
The Tool is a nice light though, but the heat transfer is below average and the parasitic drain is >5 mA
Is the >5 ma coming from the lighted tail cap or something else. I haven’t checked mine, you all got me wondering if I need to check and see if my battery is dead.
Yeah, that stock tailcap is a battery hog. Keep an eye on it. Not only is it the style where the LEDs are on the switch’s PCB (less efficient than a separate ring board), but the current is cranked up so it can shine through a black tailcap 
A triple, of course
I fixed that a few days after I got mine by taking off a couple resistors with some needle nose pliers. I didn’t even both heating up the solder, but I did destroy those surface mount resistors. 
I cannot believe Lumintop employed such a bad design/concept!
If you decide to make copper shelves i’d be in for one.
Funny how most Chinese manufacturers still don’t know the difference between brass and copper and sometimes they call it red copper or purple copper and just happens to be brass with forced patina… and it’s not like they don’t work with copper, they just don’t care.
Yes! +1