I understand and that’s what I’m thinking happened - that the switch got held down in momentary and it ran the battery down. There’s a bunch of stuff in my door panels that could have pressed that button, which is a hair trigger like yours.
I just thought Andruil had LVP but maybe it doesn’t work in lockout mode. Maybe @ToyKeeper can give us some insight because I’m stumped.
I’m going to use mechanical lockout from now on when it’s traveling and electronic lockout when it’s in my pocket.
You can measure the standby current with a multimeter if you have one? E switch lights will always draw current even when of but generally should last longer than a few months.
I used the light less than a week ago and I’m pretty sure the battery voltage was right around 3.9 - 4.1 volts. I love the blinkies on my Andruil lights so that’s usually the first thing I do when I turn them on.
On closer inspection today, I found my glow gasket and Carclo Optic melted and fused to the MCPB/LEDs.
I must have forgot to lock it out and the button got held down. It must have an older version of Andruil because I believe TK made that impossible with the newest version. It ramps down if the button is held.
This was an expensive mistake as not only did it kill the battery but it also ruined the optic which has 3 trit vials and the glow gasket.
I’m going to order those Crown Caps for all my FW3x so this doesn’t happen again.
I found my FW3A on in my pocket after hanging up my pants at end of day, several times, on low, before I developed the habit of unscrewing the head a half turn every time I put it away.
“Why are your pants glowing?” is not the best question a flashlight fan can hear from a stranger.
That light can’t be mechanically locked out. All that does is cut off the switch control, but the rest of the light (i.e., the mcu) is still powered and functional.
Maybe it’s just me, but if this light melted down on you, I’d want to make 100% sure that it was something careless I did, and not something the light might decide to do on its own again.
I recall there was a “melting down” problem with the Emissar D4v2 in muggle mode, which runs the same firmware. Perhaps this is related? Let’s hope not.
It was in the door of my truck. I’m still not 100% sure of what happened because I think I locked it out.
I’ve had that switch get stuck before but it was usually right when the battery went in. The LVP or thermal stepdown should have prevented what happened anyway though so I’m worried about that light now.