As TA said, WOW! I have never seen a dent that severe from a drop!
My comments about people jumping the gun and getting on the paranoid bandwagon was in response to the person warning of impending lawsuits and implying Lumintop should send more carriers to avoid such an event.
As for dropping lights on concrete, I live quite a way away from much of that; it is dirt, grass and bush where I live. I was rather surprised when a drop on grass dented the positive end of a GA in a Zebralight SC600 HI but hve read quite a few reports of soft terminals on the GA’s. The only time I ever dented the negative end of a cell was a HG2 which dropped inside a bored Elzetta from about 3m up on a ladder. So much for being a weapon light LOL good luck with that on a shotgun!!
Anyway, I still think it was possible for the cells to have been damaged due to handling during shipping. I hope it was that and you don’t have any issues going forward and if not, I hope it is as you suspect and is a spring issue and not more widespread.
Just had to clarify that, I’d hate to tick someone off and cop a rude flag too
I missed this post Teacher and yes that is something I missed, I really do not believe there’s anything devious going on like cheapness etc.
But the mistake Lumin made was not clearing everything through TA first, they are in a rush to recover money,
Had they talked to TA then most likely none of this would have been an issue.
One of the biggest problems I have seen since I bought the first batch of cells from Neal is the nipple the Chinese are putting on is awful short, so today I bought 16 more cells from Liion Wholesale and a new Opus, I looked at his nipples, ON THE BATTERIES, and there is a huge difference, a longer nipple would have held the cells in much better, some of mine are so short I can’t tell if their contacting or not.
Ha Ha, All is good my friend, I did understand what you meant and this was really hard to explain without a pic to show what my concern was, I really just wanted people to look at their cells to be safer, it is a weird one.
Just bought 16 new cells with longer posi ends, so I’ll use these from China for what have you.
I’ve been thinking about doing a test with this one cell, like set it up on a nail and have a brick come down and puncture that negative end to see what happens, if nothing then I’ll set it on the band saw and take me a look inside, safety googles, gloves, flak jacket, and helmet at the ready … Ye ha
Neal wearing a UI diagram I made, because of a joke which went a bit too far during the BLF A6 project. I think he was going to send me one, but never did.
Anyway, it must have been a prototype or something, since it seems to be missing some dotted lines.
TK, yes that was supposed to be the proto and the shirts were to be made for sale here at BLF in your honor and the proceeds were to go to you and Neal to the best of my recollection,
He was still at BG then and I think they got word of it and Neal stopped responding and the shirt just fizzled out and we never heard anything about it again, what a bummer it was. You sure hit a home run with that A6 UI.
I spent all night trying to figure out what happened with that one cell of mine and I found out but it’s nearly 5:30 am here and I am beat so I’ll tell you later what I found.
I didn’t know there were two springs and all springs I’ve seen have a 90 degree bend on the end, but not these outer springs so I got a huge slice on my finger and a big bloody Sunday for me, so heading to bed, will explain later about how sharp that spring wire is.
Good night all… :confounded:
There will not be a dedicated warm tint anytime soon. It is about a 50/50 chance of 4000k (which some might consider to be on the warm side) and 5000k at this point.
The neutral tint LED’s should be ordered this week. How long it will take them to get to lumintop is unknown at this time as it will depend on how and where they are ordered.
