I totally understand what you are saying buddy and yes I was very vague initially and yes, that was intentional. It was intentional because I was approaching this from an investigative point of view. I wanted to see if this white box was something not done at all by Jaxman Co. which would be a clear indication to me that this was a fake. Remember I am not just dealing with Jaxman here but also AliExpress, so I had many concerns about this being a fake or a second quality.
Anyway, as you stated earlier, this thread is about Z1 builds and I apologize for hijacking this thread! I honestly had good intentions of trying to communicate with Paul in the kindest way possible while still getting my issues resolved. Last night I mentioned to him that I could simply call my credit card company for a full refund and Paul’s alleged “new keyboard” issue (he told me the all caps were because of a new keyboard and not yelling) was suddenly resolved and the all caps as well as his tone changed. Much like I stated previously regarding the PayPal claims with GBs, this threat of full action seems to be the most effective way in dealing with these issues. I won’t need to ask here anymore about how to kindly resolve these issues because this will be my tool of choice. So, I would like to kindly drop this issue from this thread and I again apologize to all for taking this thread off its intended course.
Thank you ‘The Miller’, I do have a lucid moment from time to time. … :+1:
I, like you; can’t get away from the thought of using a MTG2 in one of my hosts. What sold me on it were the fantastic beamshots a few guys posted a while back in one of the Z1 threads. They were amazing………
So, I am starting to get my parts list together and get the stuff ordered real soon and headed my way.
At this point I am still undecided on what to put in the second host. Although I might build it and sell it, then go with the great idea ‘hank’ mentioned about having more than one Z1 pill and changing them out. I like that idea……… :+1:
Your a good man Brett, stuff happens; with all of us sometimes.
Just remember, as I try to each day; the shared words below of someone famous… (not quite sure who…… … )
They can apply to many things…………
“Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast”.
ciao brother……………
EDIT………… Oh yeah, have you decided what LED’s you are going to use in your Z1 hosts??
Thank you brother! I am just a “work in progress”. Nothing more, nothing less.
I have not decided what LED’s to use yet but then I have some time while I wait for aliexpress shipping. Although I love the round beam that Dale got in his build, I do know that I will be looking for the highest output possible, as well as the fact that I absolutely want to stick with a single-cell light because I like the size of the Z1 without the extension. So, that eliminates a few of the LED’s mentioned in this thread as they require the higher voltage.
I understand, but you might as well get one that has an extension tube; cause when you see the one I will have this winter with the MTG2 in it you will forget about that second battery and be wanting one too.
When those guys posted the beam shots of theirs with the MTG2 a while back……. I was smitten.
Haha, I am not sure you will convince me. I should have clarified, I don’t mind some multi-cells as long as they are in a parallel configuration. I just don’t like any of those long-bodied lights.
Thanks! Is 51.96 the ID of the cap, or the OD of the bezel on the light?
One of the first times I used this light, I pulled it out of my bag in the dark. I pushed the button, but couldn’t figure out why nothing was happening. It took me longer than I should admit to realize the cap was on.
On the second day of ownership I was playing around with the light while cooking dinner. I turned it off, put the cap down, and set the light on my dresser. A few minutes later I walked past the light sitting there and thought, “imagine if I left that on? I better go double check.” I picked the light up and the results are pictured above. I’m lucky that I had the random thought to go double check the light or the damage could have been worse. I was also lucky that it was facing downwards, I don’t want to think about what would have happened if the light was facing upwards and the cap melted all over the lens.
Since then I’ve started to always unscrew the tailcap when setting the light down.
I almost did it twice myself… luckily I remembered to check both times. :person_facepalming:
I have just started “locking it out” now after each time I finish using it. :+1:
Yep, ID of cap as per your request, certainly informative ha ha, sorry for real and glad it isn’t worse, lock out the switch is a real good idea, really ha ha… :confounded:
Great experiment there in any case, cause and effect stuff … ha ha ha :laughing: :+1: :person_facepalming:
Yeah, I’ve been looking for a food jar cap or something the right size made out of translucent plastic.
I do the ‘lockout’ twist thing religiously now. I consider the blue taillight my warning that I forgot to lock it out.
Hey, now that you’ve got the opening already, you could carefully excise the wrinkled part and glue in a piece of translucent plastic to fill the opening ….
or use a couple of big round pieces of clear tape to hold a new bit of plastic in the opening ….
That was what I was going to suggest also Hank, I took a very thin piece of plastic and cut the ID of the cap, then cut small slits and then glued the thin plastic inside the Jaxman cap and now I can turn it on and us it still like you see those old Army jeep black out slit head light lens covers back in my day anyhow, it works for me when being I don’t want big huge flood light but if set face down on cap you may not notice even with slits, so religiously as you said Hank is exactly what I do anyhow with all my lights, a twist of the wrist and lockout is sure way to never have any problem, like that ever…
Edit: Thank you by the way Hank for reminding me about switches, I have those dual blue LED switches and meant to do that also, I am right now trying to do a deal with BG for those switches now that they have had a complete falling out with Manker, I am trying to stay in BG loop to find out who will make our BLF lights now that Manker is out of the picture.
I bought a stupid Astrolux S1 for a friend last month and it blew up the second I hit the switch and when I went to try another Astro S1 switch assembly it would not thread on, so I tried a BLF A6 switch assembly and it threaded right on, so Manker but brand on wrong light that simple but BG didn’t believe me so I sent them not only pictures with my pitch gauge but to dumb it down even more I threaded on the bare aluminum A6 switch assembly and they wrote back that what I did was “Impossible” wow really… ha ha, that’s what I thought also, oh boy I tell you sometimes BG really gets me.
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