NEW !! See last post on Driver Issue: Response from T-Mart HD2010..The Good & The Bad.

I hope I get the "bad light" with the XM-L2. More usable parts IMO.

Either way, not a big deal. Im used to playing the Chinese lottery every time I buy a Chinese "fire" light or similar..

Thanks for your support. I hope you get the "bad driver" too.

I also got the “bad light”, non-DD low A driver with noise/pwm on high, without XML2, and no plastic ring around the LED (pre-smashed box of course, but so what)…I think any/all variations were possible.

Thanks OL for the follow up. But in all honesty, does this mean someone at TMart will cover this, or are you just going to hide the fact you will make good on peoples woes? As thats the Chinese lottery, we all know it, or should. Its not your responsibility if we all roll the dice and some of come up craps?

I have no idea what driver I got, as yet I cant get it out. I dont have a pair of circlip pliers small enough. Not even will the edge of a pair of little pliers from my mini set hold the notch.

Mine (no name) arrived in the same physical condition except the dust and I got a sleeve of bubble wrap, long enough to cover the length of the light, but not the lens lol. And yes, the tail cap was at the closed bottom of the bubble wrap sleeve, not the lens. Crushed white box, in a thin plastic bag, but as someone else stated, no damage that Ive noticed yet.

But you know, less than $30, delivered. I wasnt expecting foam padding. And I planned this as my first mod, with XML2, so was going to change everything but the host, switch (OL says they can handle it so Ill smoke test it) and reflector. Even the lens is in for an upgrade if I can get an AR one.

Try using scissors!

Sharp idea that one. It might work, but I aint gonna find out. Im off to town to get myself some smaller circlip pliers… and a coffee.

Edit:I ended up getting it out with a fine(ish) point head punch. They are hard to realign without cross threading. Mine is a really dark blue, not green, so what did I get?

Edit 2: I like this new monitor. Im going to photograph everything i need to inspect now, just loaded up a pic of the driver, and clear as a bell, East 092.

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louis huang 04/09/2014 - 20:31

so sorry about what you said.

We are discussing with manufacturers.

Please help me tell other members who dont received right flashlight. we will resend the right flashlight with East-092 or return money.

Thank you very much

So how do I go about asking for the refund or getting the correct light sent. Just PM louis huang?

I just mine yesterday. Same no-name light as you.

If you haven't already, please respond to Old-Lumens post #137 in the following thread.

That driver looks exactly the same with this 2-mode direct drive driver from FastTech. :~

Anyway I still haven’t got mine and I hope it will have the correct driver in it. :slight_smile:

You are correct Sir. It has the same number as the one I posted.

GK003A6.

I don’t mind getting the “bad light” with XM-L2 and that bad driver :bigsmile:

Yup I have the same driver shown above too. It keeps on coming on Medium first for some reason.

i am sure no member of BLF will try to get replacement if he has a good one…

but should we kinda proof a bad Light?
Pictures of faulty part with handwritten Username on paper beside?

beside that: which quantities are we talking about?

Well I think with the send date and your address they can probably check which warehouse it came from and maybe know by that which ones were the crappy ones I’m guessing?

good point!

Tmart will cover the problem with new lights or money back, depending on what you want. Just PM me with the info I requested and I will have Tmart contact you.

I still didn’t receive mine but it’s the same case as with Streamer, ordered on 3/22/14, backordered until 3/27/14, shipped 3/28/14.
I expect it somewhere between next tuesday and friday…

Me too. I ordered six of those “bad drivers” and it ain’t really that bad. You can also mod it to give you higher current. Discussions of this bad driver can be seen here: Direct drive 17mm driver from Fasttech

What size driver 17mm or 20mm?

Might be time for some OSHPark ATtiny 17DD FET drivers :smiley:
Well that is if they figure out why they are acting odd