I was just looking at a bmw motorcyle (F750GS Adventure Tourer) and the dang thing has push button preload adjust on the rear spring. Push the handle bar joystick and the darn bike raises and lowers hydraulically! Crazy! Not to mention the big lcd screen with all itās fancy features. Geez, my bike is from 1986. Lol
It helps that computronium has recently become relatively small and cheap, and so has circuit printing. Many tasks donāt need more than a few MHz on the control chip, or more than a few KB of instructions, so all it needs for a brain is a fifty-cent chip the size of a small toenail.
Yes it was turbo but you can see it was only on for a few seconds before smoking & the light was cold at startup , itās actually melted the solder on the black wire , mine will ( would have ) always step down when it reached 45*C from cold & 55 when warm whatever thermal limit I put it on , out of the box the step down was almost instant. The dodgy led has only been happening since 24 hours ago ,since the dodgy led ,although it still did work you could clearly see that only two of them works on full power ( like car head beams)
Very interesting, my flashlight lives his own life, it can turn on an off without me. Happend a few minutes ago, it stood on the table near me and suddenly swithed on. Itās kind ofā¦disturbing.
I had the exact same thing happen with my fireflies rot66. Two or three times it just decided to turn on, and then eventually it changed to the switch just being always on which makes the light inoperable. I would email Neal and see if he can send you a replacement switch since it is easy to replace on the FW3A. Hopefully Neal/Lumintop have better warranty support than fireflies.
. That is somewhat ādisturbingā for sure. Keep us posted on any more āmagical eventsāā¦ :person_facepalming: ā¦ as well as the outcome. Good luck finding the causeā¦ :+1:
It had slipped my mind but your post above about your Fireflies rot66 jarred my memory.
One of my Fireflies E07ās turned itself on a couple of weeks ago. I just happened to be looking at the lit up Auxiliary LEDās one night as it lay on a bedside table & the light just magically came on ā¦
I was surprised to say the least & started right then manually locking out all my E07ās.
So Iāll be interested as to what causes this as well.
1/ Check if the retaining ring of the driver is firmly screwed in.
2/ Talking about force: my light does not like it if the body is screwed into the head with too much force.
Stop screwing in the body when you feel contact is made (donāt keep on pushing).
This light does have two sets of parts (of conductive materials) to close an electrical circuit from front to back.
Too much pressure on one set may disrupt the working of the other set.
These parts are all made of aluminum. Think of what happens when some of it changes into Cu, SS or Ti.
Each with their own expansion coefficient. And your photon grenade starts warming up.
Thank you for advices, everyone!
Well, when I received my fw3a, I checked the retaining ring and the switch, the ring was screwed very tight so I couldnāt unscrew it, cleaned everything with vodka and it work fine until today.
So, when it suddenly turned on, I removed the battery and then inserted it againā¦ and nothing, just short blink.
And I did the same thing-cleaned everything with vodka once again. It works as usual.
So maybe my fw3a only works when itās drunk? I donāt know
No, it was not lockout, when I screw the head, it blinks and I assume it means that it has contact somewhere. When the head full screwed, the flashlight didnāt react to any switch press.
But when in lockout mode when you press the switch, the flashlight goes to moonlight.
Sorry for my bad English.
Anyway after cleaning it works fine, for now.
I also had something strange happen with mine. I generally never turn my light off when in Turbo or on a high ramp without lowering but last night when I turned it on, it was either on Turbo or ramped to highest level but when I tried to ramp down it did not dim and when I tried to turn it off it the switch would not turn it off. It kinda caught me off guard and by the time I figured my only option was to unscrew the head it was already too hot to touch. Luckily, I was able to find a rag and get the head unscrewed but it was a little scary. After reassembly, the light again functioned normally and I have been unable to reproduce the anomalyā¦ā¦ I had already done the tighten tail/head/retaining ring checksā¦. not sure what caused this, but I really hope it doesnt come on by itself when I am not around.
Checked the link and had a closer look at the driver, yes it seems a little moved and doesnāt installed properly. But I canāt move the ring, is it left or right screw there?
Anyone play around with the Group 2 - Strobe mode.
I can only go into the strobe mode for 1 time only after i received this light. I cycle from candle > bike flasher > party strobe > tactical strobe > lightning storm > off.
Problem : after that i click, click, hold it just respond by dim flash once and turn off by itself.
reinsert the battery still the same problem. dim flash once and turn off by itself.
Order with battery, assuming the battery arrived with partial charge. Will try another battery when I get home.
Removed tape from negative side of battery and reinserted.
When screwing on the head the light blinks twice, after first blink there is about a full rotation and it blinks again. At this point it is fully closed with no gap.
Retaining ring seems to be in place, will not budge with pliers either direction.
Tail cap is screwed tight no gap. Button click feels good.
Symptoms:
Light doesnāt turn on.
Click tail button does nothing.
Hold tail button for 3 or more seconds, light blinks upon release.
Havenāt seen these symptoms posted yet. Any ideas? Besides verify battery.