STARTED: GBGB: Stainless steel AAA clicky with a clip (CQG S1 "clone")

Even tho I have 8 original S1’s ordered from Ric I just purchased another two of these (CW’s this time) I’ll be swapping in Nichia 119’s (with factory drivers) and using these as new lights for the kids/ around the house.

its been two days and my order still on processing status is this normal?

my order status didn’t change to shipped till 5 days later

I got one today, nice light.

It is super warm white, nice.

I am unsure which one I got but I guess it’s the light I won in the FIFA world championship, it came with Belgium post? And the adress label was glued over the customs declaration, not on the opposite site like usual…LOL
Very fast delivery 8 days… :open_mouth:

Nichia 119 does not have a center piece of direct thermal transfer. How would you solder a nichia 119 to the pill? I have many 119s from texaspro and it would be cool if I could do this :smiley:

Just search the forum there are many ways to do it, one of the easiest is to tape the center pad with kapton and then reflow it …

Today I received the 2 I orderd.
Lovely little lights.
Was planning on buying 2 more immediately but 1 does not work, so now I’m a little bit reluctant.

Will see if gearbest will reship a working one.

Open it up for a look-see. Mine had a loose + lead to the star. 30 second fix with an iron.

Already did that but didn’t see anything. Didn’t want to mess with it by trying to get it out to look at the other side before gearbest responded. Tried to fix defective lights in the past and well… It didn’t work out that well :zipper_mouth_face:

To illustrate that, I now have an oring from this light lying around and I don’t know where to put it back. I put it around the bezel but when screwing it back on it pushed the o-ring out to the side so I assume that’s not where it should go.

I got one of mine yesterday. Quite warm and the output is ok considering the tint. I haven't opened it up to see if there is some unnecessary resistance in there.

Hoping the cool tint version is bright enough to not need modding.

I ordered on 7/3 and tracking number never worked (SG). Still waiting…

I have some pics of 119s reflowed with the kapton tape on the center pad here:

The best way is to put a small piece of tape on the entire 3 pads, then use a knife to cut and remove/expose the parts of the tape that covers the outer 2 pads. Then put some solder paste on the pads and reflow the emitter(s) - I use a heat gun for that

It's tricky to reassemble because the spring under the pill pushes everything up and the o-ring twists against the bezel before it can tighten enough to hold it flat. Get a pen or something like that. The bottom of a Sharpie fine point works perfectly. I put the spring and pill in, put the reflector in, slide the bezel over the pen, wipe the lens while you have the chance, hold the FL upright, set the lens on the reflector, set the o-ring on the end of the pen.

Now use the pen to press the lens, pushing the whole assembly into the tube (lens, reflector, pill, spring) making sure the spring didn't turn sideways, let the o-ring fall into the tube, make sure lays flat.

Keeping pressure against the lens with the pen, side the bezel down to the tube and tighten. Done.

Thanks, that fixed the o-ring problem!
I took the entire pill out but didn’t see anything that could point me to a problem. Leads are attached. Also switched the switches, but both switches work on the working light and none of them work on the defective one. So this will be out of my control to fix it. Might be something wrong inside the pill, but it’s all so small, even if I could get the star out the pill, I will never be able to fix it.

That’s not a tracking number, it’s an internal code. The tracking number have the format “xx # # # # # # # # # SG”.

I'd say you made a great effort to solve the problem from your end, GB-CS should provide a replacement.

Well 1 week has gone by since I placed my order and the only info I have on my tracking number is that the shipment has been submitted. I’m beginning to really appreciate UPS, FEDex, DHL…. hell even the USPS is pretty darn good compared to these international shipping companies.

Been using the one NW I received few days ago. Liking the light. Since it's a single mode, I think the output is a good compromise between high output and run time. Need to think of a good way to keep the clip from sliding. Here is my make shift solution for now.

Maybe Loctite (cyanoacrylate glue)? Mine has been staying in place surprisingly well on it's own so far.