No one has received the GT94 to compare to the GT4 that I am aware of yet. Mine is in the mail I think though and I will do the technical testing. I generally leave the beauty shots side of the review to VOB as he does a better job then me and I tend to be more focused on technical aspects personally anyways.
My guess is that it will be able to run until LVP without damage just like the GT4 as I expect the same or a bit lower overall power draw from the GT94.
Runtime will depend on what brightness level you run it at and what batteries you use. Basic math, brighter light = more power = shorter runtime lol.
Running either this light or the GT4 at the top of the ramp is going to be your best bet for general performance. It should have no thermal issues that way and runtime will be greatly improved over full turbo and still be plenty bright for almost anything.
Which emitter’s more efficient? XHP70.2 or SBT90.2?
All of my experience w/ the SBT90.2 is that it’s insanely power hungry and generates a whole lot of heat, whereas the XHP70.2 always surprises me at how efficient it is. 3-4 of those is way better than 18 SST20’s.
2,569 meters was mentioned by someone a while ago in this thread. I am visualizing beam performance and beam profile that has more throw and less lumens than a certain very large 18 x XHP35 flashlight, yielding more length and less width of the beam. It is going to be exciting to behold!
Yeah the Astrolux MF01S and D18, all are pretty popular lights here and all have 18 SST20 LEDs in various tints. All claim to generate 10-15k lumens. I have a few of those and they overheat quick.
Yeah, I knew about those, I was the one that redesigned those lights lol
Those are actually some of my most used lights, really good general use lights with a nice turbo to show off with. I use the MT03 or MT09R if I need better high output performance in that class but the MT18 has a better tint. I use one nightly to light the room while watching TV.
I just didn’t see how they would of played into a thread on the GT94.
I was just mentioning them in comparison to 3-4 XHP70.2 lights generating around the same lumens or even more and putting out less heat. But my primary question was really about XHP70.2 vs SBT90.2’s effiencies.
That goes against physics. The more intense the hotspot, the farther it’s going to reach. The less intense it is, the shorter it will throw. Unless you’re talking about how large the hotspot is.
An aspheric has far-reaching, more intense hotspot, but will it be as bright as this GT94 over-all?
Btw, l have the aspheric Deft X, and it’s all hotspot, all 700 lumens of it. It’s rated at 1035kcd that time…this GT94 is 1650kcd at several thousand lumens attained by a large hotspot of course.