i’m glad i passed on this light. Sounds like its a real dud.
Thanks for making this thread
The fact that it’s not exactly an original Jax Z1 host would infuriate me, I would want my money back.
But if the other issue’s can be sorted I’m sure that’ll be fine for most of you.
Apart from the problems people are reporting, the Cometa is a really well made host. The anodizing is superb, there are no rough edges anywhere, there’s beveling at every corner to prevent a sharp corner, and the there are very little artifacts in the beam. It might have design differences compared to a Z1, but I don’t doubt that it’s every bit as well made machining wise. I’m not saying that it’s perfect, but it’s a well made light with some unfortunate flaws that fortunately have fixes. It was a great deal at $40.
Is the organizer of this group buy, or any other influential person, going to mediate a resolution with Bang good for those of us that have received the out of spec. COMETA ??
Or is this every man for himself.
Please, advice.
Thank You
Sadly, it seems to still be every man for himself.
Though if you PM Banggood they will send out a insulator disk. Sadly it doesn’t solve the other safety issues or wrong specification.
I lodged a refund request 48 hours ago, and have yet to hear anything. Still early days….
If thats all what banggood does I foresee they won’t sell their EU batch of lights.
Please let us know how your refund request goes.
Other than the safety issues highlighted in many posts, my other peeve is the zooming mechanism seems like to be poorly executed.
The screw threads between the head and the body has too much gap that I’m thinking of using some teflon tape to prevent any rattling.
I’ve got 2 insulators on the way, if it still sucks then I’ll ask for a refund due to it not being as the manufacturer promised.
Dang, so far everyone… myself included; is doing good here. Just stating your opinion, or how you feel about this situation; in a “short and sweet” manner. No endless blah, blah, blah, along with quoting and arguing.
I am pleasantly surprise, at myself first of all and everyone else…… so far.
Keep up the good work!!!
OK sorry I am done with this mess
I pmmed Cyberscudo and Neal
I advised, no told Cyberscudo to become active and I told Neal to make fix kit to be send to everybody with problems containing
1 washer battery tube
1 washer for under the poor anodised disc
1 small roll of heat resistant electrical tape
2 20AWG wires 5cm long.
I strongly feel this is the least needed now.
No reaction yet
This is my first comment on this issue and I bought 2.
Couldn’t reason with BG so today sent formal request for refund and now after getting invoice info off Banggood, screenshots of Noctigon MCPCB claim, UI order, etc. just gathering as much info as possible then commence with PayPal process.
And looking into dangerous product remedy and it’s not an insulator,
I’m retired and I can devote as much time as it might take and resources, period…
I’ve just been reading and watching…
May turn out to be one of the largest refund requests by PayPal to date if it becomes a BLF, CPF or whomever bought refund request, if you follow me.?
Teacher I’ve been watching this thread since you started and my hats is off to you, YOU did NOT waste your time
are u kidding? People will buy no mater what. No matter how all these GB go, with all the issues, you won’t stop people from participating. Won’t happen. They will just offer a good price and people will trample each other to get to it.
Maybe, but you might want to do some reading on their forum via THIS … just saying.
It is somewhat interesting, especially how some of the translations come out.
From the e-mail I got from BG this morning, it seems they are waiting on parts from the supplier or maker of the lights, due to the restocking delay’s, asked me to wait a couple more day’s. For what it’s worth, the parts BG is replacing are the LED’s, the drivers and a tail cap switch, that got burned up, lost during the rebuilding of “Melt Down”. The emitter’s are for the ones that got damaged from the centering cap and free floating clone Noctigon mcpcb.
if i had known manker was making the cometa, i would not have bought one.
they said the light would be made by jaxman.
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This is the elephant in the room that no one will acknowledge.
Why was the light even made by Manker. ??
This was supposed to be a Jaxman
Thought maybe some refresher resource materials might be needed??
Demand it somewhere else then please…………… Thank you for the delete ’tarv’. :+1:
Please, DO NOT clutter this up with crap.
Start your own thread. Thank you for the delete ’tarv’. :+1:
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Excellent T18… hopefully all will read or refresh memory.
edit for grammar correction.
Thread re-opened after cleanup. Please limit yourself strictly to the technical issues at hand and abstain from personal comments and attacks. As always, if somebody starts to get irritated, please drop the subject and do not respond in any way, shape, or form. Thanks!