Thanks for the incisive tech talk. Btw what are those simple hardware mods from your perspective?
PS…In light of what Tom Tom has said here and reflecting on what others have experienced I’m glad now that I didn’t have time to mess around with the UI modes. I kinda had a hunch to wait and see if others got consistent results before I started choosing this and that mode configuration of the apparent 8 modes available.
So here’s just a copy and paste of my post # 676 of T18’s thread for those that just wanna stock simple reliable light that works every time in a way that’s expected……
“Ok. So again how come apparently I’m getting #7 of the BG erroneous list?
Getting it by……
Tail cap unscrewed half turn (Or even 1/4 turn unscrewed. Whatever floats yer boat. Extra unscrewing to say half is extra insurance of it not coming on accidentally during for instance rigorous activities.)
Screw tail cap in. Tail cap lights blue.
Full click to on. Get moonlight.
Half click (momentary press actually is a better term IMO) 6 times to turbo.
Then again this may not be # 7 of BG bad list to begin with but is part of the corrected modes? This is all confused up me thinks.
IDK….
PS…Oh and if I continue to half turn or so tail cap after it goes into turbo it strobes, half turn again appears as a beacon, half turn again stuttering strobe, half turn again back to moonlight, half turn again right back to turbo.
Now if I do a half turn screwed in without the tail cap blue lit, I get moonlight, then unscrew half turn, then screw in half turn again, I get right to turbo.
I like to keep this kind of flash while in a jacket pocket for example with tail cap disengaged at all times btw. Just me. The main reason is that I like moonlight to come on first especially on new moons. So with this arrangement without messin’ around with the clicky (and it making noise) and using the tail cap instead it goes right to turbo which is what I want for throwing and mega flooding.
Also I now have the option if I want to “ramp up” the increases that can now be done with silent momentary presses. Likewise momentary switching to get ramping decrease right back to moonlight and ramp up gradually to turbo again. IMO the true forte of this rig is immediate full power when ya want/need it. Finesse when ya don’t. Standard desires, right? The tail is your friend. Kinda like a twisty zoomie. No pussin’ around.” :laughing:
Lumens is lumens. Lumens make money. So follow the money.
No, because I don’t have it yet due to Canada post deciding they don’t wanna work anymore.
Do ya have the Post #? That’s a big thread to sift through.
Here ya go:
YMMV if your centering is of the older type (alu). May have different dimensions.
18650 adaptor is junk it is way too small . Instead I rolled up cardboard round an18650 cut to size and shoved it in the body . Just making sure the battery canslide up and down . On th body I added lots of small orange rubber bands it adds grip and running two thinrubbernands in every other groove gets rid of some of the head wobble... looks cool all up and down the body too ... 3 minute 3 cent mods
Thanks, Kikko. Nice work and the pics are appreciated.
I bet it does look cool. I’ll have to scout around for some bands to give it a go.
PS. Since I tend to be a 26650 junkie, I sometimes Glad Bag those loose fitting adapters like what came with the Cometa. Othertimes I vacillate between the 26650’s and 18650’s but don’t wanna mess with a semi-perma sleeve like you did so I just wrap the 18650 with two appropriate sized o-rings (top and bottom portions) and that’s my quick and dirty Magiver adaptor solution to loose fitting sleeves - which indeed suck bananas. Now the Cometa adapter works as it should.
Here’s what I use……
https://www.harborfreight.com/397-piece-metric-o-ring-assortment-67580.html
Specifically for most of my 18650’s I use the #112 size outta this great bargain of a kit. When ya slide the o-ring batt into the adaptor the top O-ring will tend to slide to about mid-point of the batt. The bottom o-ring will pretty much stay put as you installed it. Either way ya now got plenty of support in the adaptor with the batt nicely snug (yet still removable) and pretty much centered as it should be.
You can go with the SAE kit too and just find the o-ring that fits your batt best.
A must kit to have IMO for lots of other applications. The organization of the o-rings is great, the quality box, decent quality nitrile-grade rings, and of course the ridiculous low price is absurd. You’ll wonder how you ever went through your flash life without one. :laughing:
Little tiny ones like the size of a pinky ring. Somehow ended up with a bag of 500? Black and orange is a nice combo . I put two in every orher groove and twisted them together tightly to make sure thay were the same thickness all the way around . Then for fun i just filled all groves on the light witha rubber band
The driver runs seven modes up from moon with quick half clicks ... or from moon a longer half click reverses the order and takes you straight to turbo , next long click is strobe, next long click is a battery checker . And the next long half click is a bike flasher. I think thats the default setting and no memory starts in moon mode . Overall I like them just like they are . Maybe turning on memory so it starts in the mode you turned it off in .
Half clicks up and long clicks reverse the order . I really like these drivers
“I really like these drivers.”
Yep me too. :heart_eyes:
Pockets? What, do you wear clown-pants or something? These things are huge, even bigger’n C8s.
Jacket or vest pockets mostly butt i’ve been known to walk up to a pretty gal intentionally with one in my right pants pocket (I lean right anyway……) 
Lot’s a times you almost run outta pockets when you’re messing around with all your various flash collection permutations, ya know?
Fully collapsed these things are longer than C8’s? :question:
“Is that a Cometa in your pocket, or are you just on fire?”
“Is that a Cometa in your pocket, or are you just on fire?”
Not anymore. Got a shot of penicillin.
There appears to be a blue light on in your pants .
“There appears to be a blue light on in your pants .”
“Yes, sweetheart. This is known as a Blue Light Special. Follow me over to Aisle 5 and I’ll show you exactly where it’s located.”
My 2 work fine, no sparks no rattles - another 10 on the way.
I wish Rofis made one with USB charging and a sidelight.
1000 lumens and 900m of throw, is there a better twisty?
Well another satisfied taking epic advantage of an extraordinary blow-out customer. :laughing: 
If there is it’s gonna cost a lot more than $15. Now with looming tariff and shipping showdowns fergetaboutit.
Hmmmmmmm. USB charging and a sidelight. Interesting. Veeeeery interesting.
It may now be outta stock butt it appears BG is prepping the late to the party masses for a massive reaming of Beijing proportions. The 3B tint rocks. Glad I only got one of the 1A’s. If they ever restock again they should just stick to 3B’s.
If they actually move them at this price……… 
And lest we forget, a tip of the brim again to T18 for bringing this to our timely attention. Christmas in October. :+1:
I have 3 of them and one has a tail cap which I have to put a little extra force to for a connection. I had to change an MCPCB and LED on one because on the highest setting the LED would start off slightly dimmer and then light up all the way after a few seconds. I added a 4000K XP-L Hi from Mtn. Electronics and it was pretty awesome actually. I kind of want to try an SST-40 in the future.
Just wanted to say to “nottawhackjob” that I very much appreciate your kind and thoughtful words, and yes sir that thread really did become something much more than I’d have ever expected while writing the OP, and at times I did feel like I was leading a college football marching band thru a live mine field especially when the topic started to veer off course and into the historical facts of the what’s and why’s of how this cloning issue ever happened,
And by the way I would never have asked for that thread to be closed for any reason.
Even if that reason may have been due to only ONE toxic nasty clown that disappeared from here awhile back and then came back and changed his name, but what he couldn’t change was his nasty ways, no one liked him when he was here before and it appears it’s going to be exactly the same, every thread he posts on he is not wanted, but after I was told for a fact who he actually was he wasn’t able to get under my skin any longer, so very glad for that.
After all, out of all those hundreds of posts and the fact that almost 99% of all other threads that had the word or topic of the cometa in it are now closed by SB because of heated arguments and a lot of anger that is still around and very much so, I got plenty of messages asking me why I would post this deal or how could I post this deal or I’m an A Hole, you name it, but I wouldn’t have closed that thread, no way, I wanted more than anything to see those Z1 clones sold out.
If I could have one wish though, it would be my wish that everyone stop using the word Cometa, the wording of Z1 clone is this clones actual name, there never was a cometa, it’s really simple to change a header by the way my friend… And even by not using that word, using Z1 clone everyone will still know what your talking about and if they don’t well they will learn soon enough or not…?
Nottawhackjob, you were and are so darn funny, you really did make it a lot of fun to be around that thread even when it was getting to be a bit much, so thank you very much for all the laughs and buying so many clones, I had thought about doing that and I think I even commented about this being the first time I saw a $15 light that actually had some resale value, glad you saw that as well.
And my thanks goes out to all of you that were apart of that thread, it was a great time for me, and seeing those clones gone now and seemingly sold out is a big damn deal to me and I can tell you this same gratitude extends from the owner of Jaxman as well …!
Thank you all, most sincerely. 
G.