Only because some fat-fingered idiot, or automated script, pressed the wrong buttons.
Now corrected.
Good luck to those of you who snapped a “bargain”. Maybe even with some “free” cells.
Yes, I am just a tiny bit jealous. But also glad that I missed this. Life is too short to be fixing these shoddy knock-offs up, when you could do so much better, but by all means crack-on, those of you who have time on your hands, and are really cheap.
Edit: “Nevermind the Quality, Feel the Width.” An oblique reference.
I’m out of this thread now, you will be pleased to hear.
They are worth no more than $30, that’s if you get a good one.
Which was about the group-buy price, except that they were all ludicrously bad. In every possible way. And still are, despite some factory re-work. As you will realise from the comments here.
Just do a search for e.g. “Jaxman Z1 Aliexpress” and buy the proper thing, at the proper price. This is a decent torch.
If you live in the first-world, why are you obsessing over perhaps an extra $20 to get the real thing ? That is, if you actually intend to use it, with a use-case, rather than just to add it to a collection to gather dust. Or as a curiosity.
Thank you for bringing this odd bargain to our attention, and congratulations to those who received a bargain.
Please carry on talking about the many and varied ways of trying to make it work properly and reliably.
However it is long gone now, I think. Given the stupid prices that have returned yet again.
Perhaps something like it might return once the Banggood algorithms have settled down.
Meanwhile we could discuss the difference between “cheapness” and good value. Or sensible ways to spend our money, and time.
Which become limited, the older that you get, and an appreciation of quality and distaste of mediocrity (and rewarding that), seem to become more relevant. Once you grow up.
It doesn’t even have to cost any more, once you become selective, and learn to only buy the things that are good, rather than everything that is cheap.
Then there is the backstory, which it seems is instantly forgotten, if even known, by pundits on here.
PS T18, do you have a stake in this game, or are you completely neutral ?
Yours is one perspective - another is that of a product with a known range of problems at a price perfect for someone that wants to play with it. Many here enjoy doing that cheaply when possible. As someone else said “parts is parts”. It isn’t any more complicated than that and from this perspective the history is mostly irrelevant. Someonelse’s perspective can be equally valid.
driver pocket / driver shelf oversize (approx. 19-19.5mm) while pass thru hole is about 17.8-18mm => 17mm driver can be moved over enough to short out on one of the SMD’s or positive lead
This can be good for fix the short circuit driver problem
Please tell us if these adapters you have worked yourself or where to buy them
I have been out since I said that. Except for responding to directed pokes and prods. As now, which I think is understandable. Forgive me.
Just “let it lie”, and carry on chatting amongst yourselves.
Don’t you consider it curious how wedded some seem to be to a mediocre sh(xx) torch, just because it was offered for a ridiculous price, for a few days.
The fundamentals have never changed. Nor the back story.
Take a good look at yourselves, and question, is this the way you want the world to work ? Race to the bottom.
Any idea if we can get a spare lens for this light?
I have been using it quite a bit the past few days, I might want to get one just in case i drop it in the future.
Thanks
Edit: Removed my response because I’m better than this guy and I won’t be baited, but Tom Tom you really need to go back to wherever you came from, your annoying.
Got mine today - I lubricated the threads of the zooming mechanism a bit and put 3 layers of Kapton-Tape over the contacts (was working out of the box, no marks on the disk)
Also I changed the white disc under the silicone-tailcap with one made out of plexyglas - not the tailcap is much brighter.
Well - this is pretty much as good as a zoomie can get, I guess.
For 15€ this is a Nobrainer (or was, since the price was increased)
Not . It is impossible. Different thread pitch. But If if you accidentally stumble a lathe and have the ability to work on it, then there is no problem ….
Plus, the details of different anodizing, as seen in the pictures
