My light arrived today but there appears to be a problem with it.
I put a battery in, fired it up and it seems to work fine, ramping is all good etc. However I put it in turbo and within about 5 seconds smoke started to appear from the emitter and the emitter has tiny burn dots on it now. Looks like I’m going to have to contact Neal for a replacement.
Looks like the results of solder flux splatter to me, sometimes the stuff spits and it lands on the emitter, it’s usually clear and not readily noticeable. An alcohol dipped q-tip might clean it off, but now that it’s burned on it might not clean up so easily. A simple emitter replacement will solve the problem in a worst case scenario. Two wires…
I use a micro fiber cloth with isop. alcohol to wipe down the LED's and MCPCB as a final cleanup. I haven't been able to open the bezel so far on the Micro. Not sure if it's just tight or glued. Haven't tried the more significant methods of clamping/strap wrenches, etc.
The delay from Neal kinda spoils all the fun, I meant to have one of the first White Flat GT Micro lights but of course, that’s a big no as I don’t have the lights I paid for yet. And no word on what’s going to happen…
Yea, this roll out could have gone better... I should have time this eve to spend on trying to get the bezel off.
Funny though - the EDC05C and this came out bout the same time from Lumintop, both 14500's but very different lights. The Micro at least supports flat top cells, the EDC05C doesn't, but for production, they will ship the light with a compatible cell (hoping... ).
Got the bezel off and I got those glue blues... Blue Loctite. Needed it to be well clamped between wood in a vise and good pressure from a strap wrench.
I got pics but Photobucket got those spin'n blues - loading forever... Tried Imgur but no luck so far.
Ohh - does this work? This is my setup. This shows the light tightly clamped in pine boards, maybe the angle helped, dunno, but it was pretty tight in there.
Here you can see I got movement - it was a slow steady process. It didn't simply crack the glue and came off easy, was stiff unthreading:
Cleaned up - used tweezers in the threads to loosen, also a hat pin, finger nail to remove stuff, and isop. alcohol in a paper towel:
It's down right dirty down there. Sloppy stuff, looks like a 15 mm MCPCB:
There's liquid or goo on the side. What a mess! No wonder some are having issues:
The tweezers I used. Didn't clean the bezel cap threads yet.
Slight raised surface ring:
Somewhat unusual, there was only 1 o-ring under the glass - nothing below the threads, like you usually find. Looks like there was a space for one though, but for a very thin one maybe.
It looks like flux - cleaned up easy with isop. alcohol. They use a thermal grease under the MCPCB, looks white. It's a definite 15 mm MCPCB. I'm looking to install a white flat 1*1, bought a few from Hank.
Well I didn't pull it but I used 2 different objects and then measured - looks pretty definite at 15. You could trim down a 16 but need to take care of the pad edges - I've beveled them so no contact with the sides, but then the wire soldering can get tricky.