Yeah, you lucked out Newlumen that yours was shipped by FedEx SmartPost. Yours was shipped two weeks after many of ours & your getting it the same day as many of us. :+1:
Of course ours were shipped two weeks earlier by āSlo Boat from China International Marine Expressā. :person_facepalming:
Their āFlagship Vesselā is shown below. 
āSlo Boat from China International Marine Shippingāā¦. Flagship Vessel
Might as well laugh about itā¦. ā¦ 
I think itās impressive! They 3D printed that SloBoat for $16.93ā¦ amazing!
Yepā¦ that sounds about right.
Cut down on overhead anyway possibleā¦ā¦
After seeing that pic, I just compared my D1S and GT mini reflector and the D1S reflector is definitely smoother. Also the D1S hotspot is noticeably smaller, so should throw farther. I got 1,330 lumens with the D1S and 1,140 lumens with the GT Mini. Seems Emisarās quality is better than Lumintop overall.
I just took a piece of paper soaked in alcohol and wiped down the springs on my D1S. There were alot of yellowish corrosive residue on the beryllium springs and battery contacts. The turn on lumen finally came back up from 862 lumens to 1,330 lumens! Now my D1S is brighter than the GT Mini and the hotspot is also noticeably smaller so should throw further than the GT Mini.
Is it bad to leave the battery in contact with beryllium springs? Does that somehow accelerate corrosion?
Sweet broā¦FINALLY.
Cool question. Someone care to refresh their redox reactions from chemistry class? :party:
Thats what i thoughtā¦ emisar d1s is intense and smallā¦ perfect led centeredā¦ i dont see anything wrongā¦ hopefully i get my mini gt todayā¦ tracking didnt show it is out for delivery but it is schedule to delivered today. . 
So, perhaps I should solder the spring to the battery top and remove any spring from the driver, just to be sure there is no corrosion build up between the cell and the springā¦. (Iāve done that before, by the way)
My GTmini showed up today. So far quite impressed with it.
After three weeks I finally got my Mini GT NW today. Light looks great however there is an issue with it. When in turbo or top of ramp and double click to turbo the beam changes from NW to CW with a purple corona and then smoke starts swirling inside the reflector. Obviously this isntāt right. I bought from the Group buy here on BLF. Not sure who to contact.
It sounds like the led is overloading/overheating due to bad soldering to mcpcb. One other person reported the same. I would contact Neal or M4D M4X.
I got my mini gt today. Yayā¦ both mini gt cw and d1s cw measured the same lumenā¦ so both are equally good or the same.
This might be useful to buyers from united statesā¦ i recorded banggood shipping timeā¦ all free standard shipping. I counted the days when they start shipped.
Flashlights 10 days
Flashlights 11 days
Flashlights 9 days
Flashlights. 14 days ( wild fires delay ? )
Flashlights. 11 days
Wonders never cease!!
Mini GT wasā¦ā¦ā¦
An impressive little light to say the leastā¦ā¦ :+1:
Possibly the led has not been flowed onto the MCPCB correctly.
25 days ? Thats hella longā¦ atleast mini gt get there safelyā¦
Yepā¦ there are several of us that bought these through the Pre Buy/Group Buy/whatever it wasā¦ā¦ā¦. that the shipping time sucked.
No complaintā¦ just fact. It appears that group of packages either was truly on a slo boat or just sat around somewhere for a couple of weeks with no movement.
Butā¦ such is life .
At least it arrived in one piece & working.
That is what Iām saying. When it goes to turbo, the heat can not get to the mcpcb fast enough.
Got mine today as well. Played around with a charged 30q when I got it. No smoke or unfocused reflector (that sounds horrible, sorry man). It looked great on the wall.
After the included 30q was all charged up I stuck it in my sphere. Only got 1,101 lumens at startup and 1,049 at 30 seconds. Mine is the NW variant.
I did notice the light seems to be made to accept protected cells as the 30q is not as tight end-to-end as other 18650 lights. Springs are not compressed without load, just not as long as I expected.
I may bypass the driver spring to see if it helps.
Iām not really let down too much, as iām getting 88% of rated output. Iād be happier within 10% though. Iāll try a few other 30q and maybe a vtc5a to see what it might be.
Itās pulling 5.32amps, at start, in turbo.
I did get 134,524 candela at 20ā measured with the same battery fresh off the charger, which is right on par with the claimed 135k (within 1%).