If anyone is interested in an inexpensive holster or pouch for the D80v2: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32490680742.html Works well - about an inch of space at the bottom, but does not detract from usefulness. The elastic keeps the light in place very well.
Congratulations Wildtrail BLF D80ā¦ you have been the first BLF light to RUIN, and destroy THREE, i repeatā¦ three ( 3) good 18650 cells, by draining them unexpectedly to 0.002 volts. This is the first BLF light i will throw in the trash. I have never been so disappointed in a custom light as this oneā¦ I do not want this to b the last light to fail me at the end of my painful life.
Thatās quite surprising! I assume this was while the light was left running?
If youāre up for it, Iād pay to ship it here for a driver swap (something with LVP, maybe) rather than let it see the trash. IMO the design is beautiful, but I never picked one up.
Nope, it sat turned off, but drained 3 cells dead. i donāt know if it was a shorted switch or shorted driver, I had originally thought the first two cells i put in it was defective, but the third was the end of the line. This light was used as a back-up, but it killed 3 cells even with the tail cap left loose. its now sitting in this weeks trash bag to go. Done with it. Adios.
Very weird stuff, it has a mechanical switch, the circuit is completely broken when switched off. It uses a common switch (I believe an Omten) used in many other lights. As far as Iām aware the BLF D80 is one of the best designed lights out there, mechanically everything is simple and well-proven. Only the user interface (modified biscotti by flintrock) was a gamble but appears to work very well.
My two D80V2 do not drain cells fwiw.
Could be a soldering defect (slight solder bridge) at the tail spring causing a tiny trickle current bypassing the switch, not enough to start up the MCU and cause a faint moonlight, but enough to drain cells?
i thought originally the first cell was just defective and went dead, so i tried a second, ( and third) and killed them too the same, drained the voltage to near zero.