Thank you for the picture! Can that rubber be pulled all the way out from the outside when the light is assembled without damaging it?
I did not buy the light, I received it as birthday present. The last thing I would do is bothering the person being kind to bring me present on my birthday to have it fixed or replaced. No idea where he ordered from, best guess is Banggod, but who knows. He wanted to make me happy, I won’t go back to say I’m not. At least ramping mode doesn’t care much about missed clicks and doesn’t produce random behavior.
Maybe. The retaining ring is a press fit squishing the rubber edge to make it water tight. Sometimes it’s not super tight and it can rotate. If you do pull it out, you can probably pry out the retaining ring to reinstall everything. I have not tried this personally.
(My picture is from the ODF30. It’s the same basic switch boot as the GT Mini)
Here is a picture where someone removed the switch boot on their GT Mini. I was showing them how to pry the retaining ring up.
Thank you so much for your kindness, this is more than informative. I’m afraid I daren’t risk to tear the rubber cap apart or void the tightness. My other experiences with this light suggest that controller may also struggle with challanges, the occasional delayed operation and surprising behavior suggest that. Most probably I let the light as it is. It functions in ramping mode and missed clicks / malfunctions can’t cause me tactical disadvantage :-). It’s my first Lumintop light and first experience with a button not promptly responding and not reliably. My bow to BLF developers and fans is honest, still I’m not sure I became a Lumintop fan.
I’m not sure it’s all about the switch. There are few strange experiences:
In Modes from standby I click once. Moonlight comes up, switch flashes three times and the light goes off. Sometimes it does this way, sometimes it turns on.
In Modes from standby I triple click - seems like nothing happened. Looking on the led, it’s in moonlight and before I could turn away it burns my eyes.
So delayed, sudden and surprising answers coming from the light in Modes.
The D shaped boot activation pad is catching on the side of the driver, delivering an unusual pressure that may stay applied for a short time after you click resulting in the driver “thinking” a different action was required from what you intended. The boot needs to be rotated slightly so that the flat top side of the D shape can clear the driver, you should have no problems after that.
You can probably use a sharp wood chisel to slightly raise the retaining ring, bump the chisel in slightly from each side to give some wiggle room for the boot, then align it. Try it in action and see if it is fixed, if so, tap the retaining ring back in.
Ok, then your issue is same that me and some others had, button does not register clicks etc… but weird did u use the light and no issues since sept 2018 and suddenly problems? My issue started probably just a few weeks after i got mine from Neal during group buy hardly used, i got a new head replacement which i requested. Maybe try request it to banggood also but i dont know how they will deal with this problem now?