I ended up buying 19 of these things. That’s right. I know an insanely great bargain when I see it. Notta one has acted in any way, shape, or form in a hinky fashion. All work as expected.
That said, seeing that T18’s original thread is approaching 17,500+ reads and 710+ posts thus far I figured he’s prolly ready to ask SB to close the book on it much less being burned out on all the attention the Cometa has surprisingly given and asked of him. He’s actually all things sensitively considered been really very cool about it.
So………this new thread is to start afresh on its latest and greatest attributes (or failings) from strictly a performance related perspective.
If anyone has anything else to say about their recently received Cometa’s performance (without including all of the last unfortunate politics and business issues related to the BLF GB fiasco to and fro’s) it would I think be appreciated.
I’ll start if off with the following quick general personal observations
1). All 19 received have included a positive driver side spring separator delrin-type disc (donut). White in color. I intend to add a dab of mild adhesive so it stays put.
2). All 19 received have no flickers, burnt electric smell, or other obvious aberrant behaviors, machining mess ups, etc., this even after running them on turbo and other levels repeatedly.
3). Everything on every unit appears to be well torqued down. I received 1 light with a slightly torn tail cap button which I will eventually replace with one of the spare button caps provided.
4). BG did refund me 2 Cometa’s that were to include 26650 batteries. I didn’t ask for the refund. They unilaterally gave it to me without asking. Obviously they couldn’t meet the insane order price of $15.95 including the batts. I can’t blame them for not
doing so.
5). My house has not burned down yet by having these 19. Although I do 2 things that may be worthy of emulation. I use a protected 26650 and I always endeavor to lock out current by unscrewing the tail cap a 1/2 turn or so when I carry in a pocket or even have it sit around on a shelf. But I do this with pretty much ALL my lithium lights if they’re capable of tail cap lockout anyway. Otherwise they’re stored empty whenever I can remember to do so.
I believe over 600 of these clones were sold recently.
If you have any performance-related only thoughts/comments/improvements please share them here. Like I said the other thread is still active but it’s getting ungainly huge and cumbersome to unravel who said what to whom, etc.
Please remember that PICS say a thousand words when discussing improvements etc. :student: