Pretty sure that they have all been shipped directly from lunimtop recently due to changes since covid in the shipping system in China. For awhile they could not even get items shipped at all. So he has not even had the chance to see them before they go.
Mine has arrived in Phoenix, so I should be getting it by Monday. This is a very, very important stand-out flashlight. This could be my chance to see for myself what the difference in smooth or orange peel reflector looks like in beam width and throw. My guess is the difference to the naked eye is fairly negligible.
This post was made five minutes late, because a family dog killed a four-month old infant in Hawaii, and it took me five minutes to post my comment on that new story.
I also noticed that the GT94 I received doesn't appear to be cool white. It has a slight yellow tint. I tested against a while wall in the daytime. The GT4 was definitely cool white, but not the GT94. It this expected?
Nealsgadgets says...
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Emitter: 4x Luminus SBT90.2 LED cool white, mounted on copper DTP MCPCB
I am guessing you are testing at low output levels?
The SBT90.2 does have tint shift depending on the power lever. In the lower power levels it will tend to have a bit of a yellow/green hue. This goes away at higher power levels though.
The SBT90.2 is only available in a CW tint, so it must be CW.
Ok, another thing to keep in mind is that it is around ~5700k vs most other CW lights that are 6500k, so it will naturally look warmer then those if that is what you are comparing it to.
Yeah, that is a bit of an outlier in my testing, I think that the combo of the XHP70.2 and the VERY heavy OP on that reflector played a role in the results.
Still, I would not be shocked to see 15-20% gain in lux with a SMO reflector in the GT94 at the cost of the slight donut hole returning.