Your right. Yours is still defective and unusable. Your entitled to get it replaced.
I feel bad for you. The challenge is getting HKE to replace it.Even in the USA it would cost too much to send it back to China.
An advantage of buying[and living in] from USA dealers is that we do not have to deal w/ China for at least the first 30 days. I have had items replaced for free that were 5 months old!
I hope some others chime in to give you ideas on possibly fixing it. I am a novice when it comes to electronics!
I am good at buying lights and then using them every night to walk my Husky Capo!! ,he starts howling/talking about 10 minutes before dark!
Sorry for the confusion I am not very good with english but I will try to explain again. The flashlight does not turn off completely and remains as depicted. That is like a very very low moon mode.
Are all of your cells in properly—— Long click still makes moonlight—double click still goes to Turbo—from turbo short click to off or that almost moonlight (3 dies lit )
Yes the flashlight works properly and the batteries are the same and in the same position as yesterday. The only difference appeared today was this rare impossibility to totally off remaining thi 3 dies lighted ver very dim.
With that said. I am sure you want to know what is causing that. Good news is your light works and ALL you need to do is take the batteries out until your ready to use the light.
Taking the batteries out reminds me of a SEPARATE AND DIFFERENT issue that I have HAD w/ my high powered lights for several years.
Condensation under the lens!
Solution:Silica gel packets in the battery tube and w/ the batteries which are stored in a big pill bottle until they are ready for use. It rarely happens anymore. if it does I just put in a fresh silica gel packet and refresh the other one in the microwave! I have had these packets for over 2 years.
BTW ALL those lights are modified by Vinh[V54] W/ The exception of the OSTS TN31mb which Michael Johnson Modified. Mine was the last one he did[470Kcd]. All others were b/w 390/420Kcd.A new XPG2 S2 bin had come out and I benefited from it! This was in December of 2013.
Hi Wolfdog, wow do you meant that some moisture got into the flashlight and it may cause this rare issue. I´ll try to dry the thing like you said. Then I will let you know. Thanks a lot!
Do all of the dies light up when the light is on? You would need a filter of some kind to be able to look directly at the LED when it’s very bright. I wonder if one of the dies somehow became a short. This would reduce the forward voltage of the LED (and cause that die to not light up) and possibly this caused the issue with glowing while off.
Yes these 3 dies remain glowing when the light is off. I looked again the led in moonlight mode and I can confirm that 4 dies are lights Ok. So strange…