You are right, the tailcap does have to be unscrew half way to lock it out. I was remembering what I had to do with my Blackshadow Terminator. My bad.
Maybe mine has a stiffer button than normal, mine takes more than just a little presure to activate the button. Now my new SRK is a different story. It takes only light presure on the button.
I was wondering what you meant by the comment of nitecore’s shoddy practices?? Am I missing something? feel free to PM if you don’t want to air it in public, I’ve bought several of their lights lately and like to know maybe should I avoid them?
I’m quite happy to air my views in public tbh, I got an intellicharger i4 as all this came to light, it charged two cells then promptly blew up, luckily fasttech sorted out a refund, but I was a bit miffed, particularly since the charger gave me a mild electric shock through the negative connection.
Anyway, as this was happening, a few of our valued traders offered deals on the ea4, they then got some abuse off nitecore for other people posting the prices they would sell at, basically nitecore expects the prices to be fixed. Even if I didn’t really consider any of their products up to then, I definitely wont now, then you have the whole nitecore/sysmax/jetbeam debacle and quite frankly I have no desire to give them any money. I dont like their lack of principles or fair trading and I definitely dont like price fixing, given that my shoddy i4 was not an isolated incident either, they can go f* spiders as far as I’m concerned.
Thanks! :bigsmile: I only made a quick search.
What happened there?
See this thread for lights available in local US TSC stores which run on alkalines. Take note of the 3C XP-G and the 3AA (used to be $9.99, lately seen at $14.99 at my TSC). The 3AA would be nice if you could do a simple emitter swap to XM-L. oldbobk used to talk about how easy this is to do and the result, but his posts are deleted now. Perhaps you could get some BLFer's to volunteer to do emitter swaps.
Just some options readily available off the shelf intended to run on alkalines. I've thought of that Coleman XM-L at Walmart, but at +/- $50 I think it's too expensive.
-Garry
the 4x4response is a bit close to my heart, check my avatar. … :bigsmile:
the sysmax etc thing was over the i4 I think, it was a lot of arguing and back stabbing, not pretty.
Thanks Gary? Being that the department will have to buy in the neighborhood of. 30 lights it adds up quickly I appreciate you pointing out a few realistic torches that will go to people that are volunteering to help out the community! I think the poppas W878 and the ultra ok are real possibility,’s
Oh wow! I didn’t realise. 
I can imagine. The Jetbeam and Nitecore i4 chargers do look rather similar. >.<
oh, dont worry, I’m not a 4x4 responder at the moment (other than locals in the snow) but I have friends who are.
The jetbeam/nitecore chargers are I believe infact identical….
back on topic, the ultraok tacticals are pretty good, would be better with a driver swap to 3 mode, rather than next mode memory.
I do think some defiant 3c’s would be worthwhile purchases too, they do seriously kick arse.
Looked at your avatar not sure what I’m looking for. Anyhow as far as Sysmax setting prices for Nitecore & Jetbeam brands they own, I think it’s wrong too.
The Free Market Place should determine the price not somebody in China of all places. But you see that’s part of the problem here, Sysmax as you know is in China, a Communist Country; they really have NO clue how the Free Market Place works. So they are running their business like their Country is run because that is all they really know. True China has made great strides over the last decade but they still have a long way to go.
Using the Model they insist on makes no sense to have any more than a handful of Dealers in each Country, because if they all sell at the same price, doesn’t then matter who/where I buy something costs will be the same and many Dealers even though their Marketing hype would tell you differently their Customer Service is way below par what it used to be and needs to be.
I have only had the pleasure of 3 Domestic companies on the Internet that actually know what real Customer Service is and those 3 are the first ones I go to looking for something before I expand my search. One Foreign company on the Internet that I think is even volumes above many Domestic Internet sites.
Sure they all will take a Sale ($$:money_mouth_face: from you, but then how long before they actually ship it out, and when something goes wrong how long does it take them to even respond back to you and how quickly do they handle it to make you whole again and to the satisfaction of the Customer whom they wish to keep doing business with? I’m sure if you turned the tables on them, they would expect no less themselves.