Problem with Pelican Mitylite 1900 (xenon flashlight)

Hi folks

This nice flashlight (is an incandescent one, high presure xenon bulb...) was working perfectly.

If you know this light, is known to produce a almost perfect! beam, with no rings, a defined hotspot with no dark zones in the center.

But now, without doing nothing bad to it, I switched it on and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An Enormous!!!!!!!!!!! black hole in the center making the light UN-USABLE. Only light by the sides.

Any knows what problem can be? The bulb has less than 1 hour of use.......

Thanks!

We have a similar flashlight at work and I've seen the same thing happen to that one. On that one the bulb comes installed in a reflector and I THINK the problem was due to the batteries being to long and pressing the bulb in to the reflector. If that's the case try to pull back the bulb from the reflector and to to prevent it from happening again try to lessen the tension of the spring.

mmm thanks for the tip, but I think it is not recoverable...

It is a very similar issue as you comments, because it happened when I screw the head firmly.... but...


I have tried to press the bulb down, I tried the contrary action... No success

It looks like the bulb said good bye Fran82.

Is it difficult to get a replacement?

The plastic socket that holds the bulb, you can't break it open to get the bulb free? If so you might be able to glue it together with the bulb in it's correct position.

The bulb said goodbye with less than 1 hour of use?

It is very difficult to get replacement, it is not a "bulb", it is a "module" which contains bulb, switch, reflector and hydrogen absorbers. It is available only in the US. There are some sellers who sell outside US, but shipping is 30$

The whole assembly is glued. Only accesible part is the hydrogen absorber. Yes, I tried to diassemble

Fran82, if you feel it is not the bulb itself, show us with some pictures how the flashlight is, and maybe we could help, thousands of eyes can see more than two...

I have googled a bit, and it looks like the drop-in is sold at $5.46 ( http://www.opticsplanet.net/pelican-mitylite-1900-lamp-module-1904.html) but I don't know if you could find it any cheap to Spain, maybe through ebay.

I have checked rechecked and rerererechecked even before having the light... I will continue thinking....

Considering it's unusable as it is I would use brute force to break it open. That way you at least have a chance to repair it. If you can reuse the reflector in some way you could try the Maglite Mini Xenon bulb, they are small so they might be about the same size as the bulb in you Pelican.

Yes, that is what I am doing, and I have found the problem. Now I am trying to resolve........... will update

OK, nothing to do

The main drawback of the modules is that they are made of plastic. When you screw the head to switch the light on, there is too much presure against the plastic that it literaly "bends" in near the zone where is the positive contact of the battery. That produces the bulb to "move" from the original position to another position where it is "unfocused". Same thing that happens with a minimaglite when you switch it on: first there is a "extrange" beam until you continue turning the bezel (thus changing the position of the bulb from the reflector). Then when the reflector is aligned to the bulb, it has a nice defined hotspot...

The plastic has gone. Irreparaible.

However I salvaged the High Presure Xenon bulb and installed it in a maglite AA... WOW!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!! what a boost in lumens... and the light is whiter compared to the yellowish light the standard maglite krypton bulb emits... yeah!

At least I have found a better way to use the bulb.

Now I will try to find a cheap module with cheap shipping costs to make use of this pelican light...

PS: I dont recommend this light at all.