FYI these are back in stock again but at 50% off the regular price. Not such a deal anymore.
Got mine in the mail today.
No unexpected issues. Got a plastic retaining disc, I’m pretty sure it’s acetal though, nicely machined, so no concerns there (shouldn’t soften below 180°C). Solder joints and thermal interfaces will be reworked for good measure. 26AWG wiring is a bit thin, so that goes out too.
Lots of material in the pill, it could easily hold a 20mm driver if necessary. 22-23mm maximum.
PS: If you have the pill disassembled anyway, deburr the inside as well. Mine had quite large burrs on the sidewall (where the end mill stopped for the 2 wiring holes) that could potentially come loose and short something out.
My batteries measured over 5000mAh if charging from 3.12v.
Quite sad though…
But i assume it was the “sh(it)” i quoted.
Where’s the rule not to behave like some communist?
Seriously though, what about “crap” then ?
It’s the same thing / substance.
often used in the same context: “piece of crap”
or “that scared the crap out of me”
or “crappy battery” for example.
Jerommel, you are escalating this, seems not neccessary, please follow the forum rules, please remove your post.
If you can not distuinguish what words are considered rude or not in the english language, choose not use any words that might be considered rude.
Another thing, Raccoon guy.
Since you’re so occupied with rules and behaviour of people on BLF,
What the hell are those knife murderer pictures supposed to mean?
You apparently glorify serial killers?
You know this is supposed to be a “family value forum”, don’t you?
Also suited for children (who use words like sh(it) and crap by the way…)
You could have avoided this risqué conversation by the way.
As for being occupied with rules and behaviour, simply pointing out the forum rules if they are not being followed, like raccoon did, sounds like normal behaviour to me.
Stop behaving like hypocritical commie virtue signalers to avoid urinating people off and trigger risqué conversations.
To be clear, flagging my post as rude because i quoted “sh(it)” is not normal behaviour.
If you want to police on a forum, become a moderator and chase everyone you don’t like out.
By the way, why do you have a political signature when you’re always against discussing politics (which is not allowed on BLF, and for good reason)?
……aaaand that’s all for me for today in this topic…
:+1: 
Before you go, would you please remove the posts that you filled with language that is considered rude, this is supposed to be a family-friendly forum and even apart from the rules for me that is part of why I like it here.
I added a question to my post (since it was supposed to be the last post here… :person_facepalming: ).
Yeah okay, i’ll remove those (wo)rds. :+1:
Yes, there was a problem with the driver pocket also. The major I.D. of the driver shelf was oversize, say 19-19.5mm I think? The pass thru hole was like 17.8-18mm so you could actually move the 17mm driver over enough to short out on one of the SMD’s or positive lead… something like that…
Also since the mcpcb board isn’t screwed or glued, (the Z1 mcpcb was screwed down) a couple members had the board rotate when they tightened the cover on, and sheared the leads. IIRC….
That is a really nice clean mod, Great job, :+1:
Berrylium copper spring? Looks great!
Wellp, my order without cells was ordered on the 24th, and is just being processed through Xiaoumen or somewhere.
My order with cells from the 25th is still “back-ordered”, expected shipping date 10-04.
Yah, right. Stiiiiill waiting…
Anyone know where to p&m about that without having anyone just cancel the order?
I was hearing in my head the phrase "patience is a virtue" with an Asian accent (?) after reading your post. LoL!
For my order, somewhere, a check mark in the 'signature required' field was filled in. Argh!
First I would like to thank T18 for posting this deal :+1:
I bought the light with the Vap battery,
it was delivered in a bit less then 3 weeks
my light was also dropping out of turbo to moon after 10 seconds or less
but after reading I found that it was the temp setting
I turned the temp / heat setting off and it is working fine now
I also opened the light and the solder looked fine
but I insulated the blobs anyways as a precaution
I like the light so much that I went back tonight to buy another
but the price is now 47.99 :person_facepalming:
hope they lower it again,
I would definitely pick up another
Iwon’ttellyourwife, your quit welcome, I sure didn’t expect this thread to become as long as it became.
I to saw how BG raised the price of some 20 more units and they are claiming it’s for sale at 50% off the original price of $95 something,
This light has never sold for that much, imagine what light you would buy for $95, not the Cometa I hope… ha ha
The most they have ever tried to sell this light for was $65 and that was way to much for this clone, and $40+ is ridiculous as well.
All of us BLFers probably saved some poor soul from buying a potentially very dangerous surprise at $15.99,
I do think we all got one over on BG this time, especially if you got the free cells,