I was never in the Cometa group buy. And this time it is not about receiving a outoftheboxperfect flashlight but about great material for a nice DIY project for little money.
The Jaxman Z1 is using a 22mm driver but i heard that the Cometa is using a 17mm driver.
Can someone confirm the driver size from the currently sold Cometa?
@chinooker
I did not bought in the Groupbuy. But at this price i could not pass! It is still cheap if you take it as a pure host.
Can someone please list all "hot spots" one needs to look upon when disassemling the Cometa, i.e. all potential hazardous areas that might cause shorts? So far, I noted:
solder joints on LED aluminum board (potential for bad solder jobs)
sharp edges on the pill that might damage the insulation of wires
insulation disc on the rear side of the pill is crucial as the outer rim of the pill might cause shorts when in contact with the positive pole of the battery
Received mine this morning, but no free gift (the 2x18650) only the 26650 in a bag. I’ll see how it stacks up against my modded Warsun X50, X65 and UF-1504 later. On first impressions, size wise, its a little more pocket friendly.
Thank for the links Barkuti, looks like a good option I will order now.
Tested my working one for the first time last night and it’s pretty impressive in terms of throw compared to my D1S and GT Mini, though I realise they are both much smaller and I’m not comparing apples with apples.
Please make sure first the Cometa can fit the driver. My reasoning is only a guess because it is a Jaxman Z1 based flashlight with the driver pocket reduced somehow to ∅17mm for the whatever driver it uses, and this is what caused cell shortcircuits when coupled with big headed 26650 cells, is this sort of right? This means you'll additionally fix this potential issue with a proper ∅22mm driver.
All in all, while more expensive the build should be nice. If you opt to drive the XHP35 hard it will be pulling more than 10A at the tail, hope the torch uses a good switch.
Yep 17mm driver you need to make space for the driver to fit. This is what actually caused the shorting issues originally it was meant to be a 20mm driver like the jaxman.
Also you will need to make the hole bigger in the LED retaining disc so it can fit a XHP50 in it. It only just fits the XPLHI as is.
2018-10-02 00:34 Banggood Pickup Success
Finally someone pick up mine from Banggood after 10+ days. If I don’t have plan to modify it, I would have already canceled this order.
Been gone a week, I never expected all this when posting this light deal, just thought they had finally set the price where it should be with all the known issues.
I fully agree with djozz, this is a great host and if you happen to get a working driver and a good K9 lens those are all bonuses, it would be a waste of someones time to try and complain to BG about any defects.
I’m fairly certain they’ve already figured out that BLFers found BG’s low price on the Cometa and that’s how all these lights suddenly started selling.
I can hardly wait to see the newest round of modded Cometa’s… the technology has changed a bit since 2016.
Check the pictures, some of them have another name — Albinaly, I think.
Is that a 3xAAA carrier? Because it might be a decent light for people I wouldn’t trust with li-ion recharging.
But AAAs are so wimpy, I was hoping for a 3xAA size.
And: Mode Memory No
Fooey.