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!
Thank you……
G'Day teacher, 
Very Happy to see your Valuable thread re-opened for business.
Please keep buiding this Valuable resource. I suggest including Amp measurements before & after mods from members (eg: unknown00101, Tom E, etc), & all other mods.
Suggest you change the thread's title by adding an appeal for measurements, & mods.
Best Regards,
George
That is an excellent thought. :+1:
I’ll do that in the morning in fact.
Thanks Teacher, I’m calm pal, it was after your 33 comment, said to you Your Welcome and couple goofy emoticons, no big deal, must have been more to it I just don’t recall but got rid of current comment anyhow, don’t want to start any problems, so end of story now back to fixing and having a good time, But hey Teacher, Thank You and Your Welcome again anyhow… Your a good man for sure… 
While I was working on calibrating my pvc tube I charged up an Efest 40A IMR26650 4200mAh for a quick test. At 4.21v fresh off the charger I measured 6.56A same 4in loop and clamp meter, still fully stock Cometa. I believe that’s the highest I’ve measured on a single cell, single emitter, FET driver flashlight.
Hopefully this post will not derail the thread, but seeing as so many have, who knows? I wonder if it would not be better, collectively, for BLF and other forums, to boycott Manker and Banggood. I know people will still buy, but many would support it, I think. Would it not be better to aim for them stopping production for good, rather than down and dirty fixes, or a "repair kit" that will probably not hold to standards any better than the lights did, for a light that is called a pipe bomb? Just asking.
Also, has anyone reported this particular light exploding? I have seen many lights exploding via YouTube, but never a Cometa. Is there any links to news about ones that are exploding in the field?
Also, I think this all ties into a much larger problem that will come up again and again. That problem is no standardization for Li-ion battery cells. I see mass of no name or new name cells coming out and no one seems to have to adhere to any standard of size, diameter or contact styles. I'm talking about flat tops that are actually lower than flush, or flat tops that are raised up, or negative ends that may or may not be raised above the shrink wrap. It seems that any flashlight manufacturer can fail just because of the fact that only certain cells will fit in certain lights and that has always been an issue, so maybe the bigger approach is to find a way to make the lack of standards more well known for everyone?
Probably this is just all my spouting off and if so, just PM SB and he can clean it up once again.
I’ve yet to receive my cometa, ordered despite the fracas. If I have anything to add when it comes in I’ll do so.
GB’s are always fraught with unknowns, but I’m thinking like OL. Apparently I’m getting older, lol.
I don’t mind deleting this post if asked.
I have to agree with OL. There’s nothing worse than dirty fixes when you’re stuck with them on something that you expected to be a quality product. This would always enter my mind every time I used the light even if it does eventually function. When’s this going to come loose,that fix looks horrible, sticky tape mess? etc
It should be to a factory standard where the light was designed, tested and put into production with no problem’s at all like all of the other light’s we buy.