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.
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.
Is the >5 ma coming from the lighted tail cap or something else. I havenāt 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 switchās PCB (less efficient than a separate ring board), but the current is cranked up so it can shine through a black tailcap
I fixed that a few days after I got mine by taking off a couple resistors with some needle nose pliers. I didnāt even both heating up the solder, but I did destroy those surface mount resistors. I cannot believe Lumintop employed such a bad design/concept!
Funny how most Chinese manufacturers still donāt 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 patinaā¦ and itās not like they donāt work with copper, they just donāt care.
Not too enthousiastic about the looks of the ToolTi with brass piece either, the original looks better, more hard-core titanium or however you would say that. I do agree with the decision to use brass instead of copper, brass is stronger, it makes for a structurally more robust flashlight, and the thermal conductivity is plenty.
I have always had good experiences using C14500 Tellurium Copper. It machines fairly easy without gummimg up like pure copper.
Itās harder than pure copper, I think its close to brass. Depends on the alloy of brass I guess.
It machines similar to soft aluminum to me and still has good thermal conductivity. Itās still a soft metal though, just better than pure copper.