ClipSwitch Flashlight - Giveaway (WINNER announced)!

Reliability is excellent in my testing and that of the other users I sold my first ones to (friends/family). A buddy of mine has used one as his primary light as a mechanic for 6+ months and it has held up perfectly with only minor maintenance. I’m still EDCing the final prototype I made and have been for about a year now. It still works great after approximately (conservatively) well over 500 pocket insert/removals.

The pocket clips on Streamlights are bendable but it’s quite difficult to do so (they are well designed and very robust stainless steel). The aluminum body does start to wear down slightly at the point of contact over time but not so much as to cause a problem. If it ever did wear enough to cause a problem you could remove more anodizing and turn the clip slightly for a brand new contact patch.

I had made some prototype Eagtacs and found that the high current combined with the thin body worked well on the Titanium but not on the Aluminum (it was showing a lot of aluminum loss very quickly). The Problem that I ran into on the Titanium one was that it was VERY difficult to isolate the tailcap (it was unreliable).

This is why I believe some experienced metalergists and/or engineers could make this idea go far!

Also, fabric actually has a cleaning effect on the contacts. The only issue seems to be lint/fuzz on certain types of fabric, but on fabrics such as my cotton Wrangler ripstop jeans it’s a non-issue.

A specially designed contact with certain grooving and channels and/or dual contact points could virtually eliminate the lint issue.

I’m in!

I beg to differ

Most of my questions and worries are answered with your extensive comment. Thanks!!

Obviously the aluminium is not as strong as other metals and obviously soon or later will show degradation…. But perhaps we could find a fix for that…

Of course, more powerful flashlights that need more amps will suffer more with that issue… But the main idea was that the clipswitch is designed for pocket flashlights… And most pocket flashlights dont require such high current…

Lets see…

Congratulations phouton. Thank you ClipSwitch.

Can’t wait for the second round.
I’ve always been more lucky than clever! :person_facepalming:

interested

interested

I’m interested.

In again!

interested

interested

interested

Interested

interested
Thnks for gav!

Interested

When is the end of the contest?

interested

Interested.

Is this contest still working??

Thanks

Interested!

It seems it is not over yet.

I have a question about to “reverse” the process done to install a clipswitch.

I am talking about restoring the original anodization in the area that was removed (in the case that you dont want the clipswitch in the future… )

Is that possible? Or the only way is remove ALL anodization and re-anodize everything again??

Thanks