Lumintop GT Nano torch review.

 

 The Lumintop Nano is a courious torch. In truth a tiny copy of it's bigger brothers (the biggest needs seeing to believe)  this one though is tiny, like a toy almost, it would fit inside a christmas cracker no problem.

 That said it's not a toy, it puts out a whopping 450lms on turbo, ok battery life on high (about 350lm) is only about 20 minutes, but this thing is tiny, and with the power set to around 30lm you might get an hour or two.  It uses the tiny 10180 battery thats 80mha. No thats not a mistake, 80mha. It can be used with a longer tube and a 10440 battery though, these are around 300mha, so you'll get a lot longer run times.

 The beam choice like it's big brothers is a thrower, this tiny torch  lights up at least a 100 metres, my test distance and theres enough spill to see where your going.

 This really is a keyring torch, it's a bit longer and the head is fatter than a AA battery.  It's really light too.  And as batteries are cheap and the 10180s are tiny, three spares would take up about the same space as a AA battery near enough.

 The interface is... well simple and complex.  It has a click for on, hold down the single button to ramp up or down, double click for turbo and double click again for strobe. Oh and four clicks for lockout.  Sadly theres more, the torch is configurable, you can choose the power of various setting and light levels, turn off ramping and have steped light levels, chose your strobe mode and frequency, even alter what temp the torch "steps down" to prevent overheating (I'd suggest you leave that one alone)

 If I'm honest I'm baffled whay they used such a complex interface on a torch thats this small.  And thats it's one real flaw, it's so small it's akward to hold in your hand.

 So whats my take on this, well as an everyday carry, it's battery life is painfully short on full and the throw beam not ideal for a walk around torch, yes it'll work and you'll have no trouble seeing where your going, but not for long.  Personally I'm going to buy the longer tube (cheap enough) and a couple of 10440 batteries, these will give a lot longer runtimes as they have about 4 times the capacity, and frankly the longer length will make it easier to hold.  Ok I'll lose the tiny size, but it still wont be big, and a thrower in the pocket is handy for seeing whats off in the distance.

 Shown here with a AA battery for rough scale.