Correct.
Ok, now for a twist…what about insetting an orange trit in the head as stationary, the locator if you will, and a green trit in the selector ring to show the rings location? Or, even different colored trits along the positions from Lo-Turbo to show in the dark exactly which mode the light is in and how to achieve the one you wish. Would this be feasible? Possibly one trit on moon and one on Turbo, with the single locator in a fixed position? Something like that anyway to make it super easy to dial in the mode you want even in the dark.
My K50 arrived today. I must admit, the anodizing on the entire light is a perfectly matched matte black. Not a blemish to be found.
The thing is, the charger doesn't seem to work. The light works. I can actually see the beam lighting things up outside in broad daylight.
There isn't much instruction on the charger. The little light doesn't illuminate when the charger is plugged in. I tested two different "USB Doctors" and another 2A charger, and I'm not getting any current reading.
Is there something I don't know about this charging system? Does it only charge when the cells are depleted to a certain level?
It's not really a big thing to me, but I'd like to know why it's not charging. Since the light works fine, I'm assuming the fault would have to be within the carrier.
Can someone tell me how their charger works just incase I'm off base. I want to check it good before I contact Bella.
You can take photos for everyone. If you leave out tonight, you might be able to follow the lights around the world and get every photo.
Charger work’s by plugging it in to light and wall. Red light comes on to say its charging and turns green when its complete. Unplug and light goes off. Turn light on and green comes back on. If your light is on and no green light then led might be dead in indicator or not connected
There’s also supposed to be an led indicator on the wall wart showing it’s making power. As I understand it, this one is red showing it’s on. The small led on the light itself will be red when charging and green when done. I also saw that a DMM won’t indicate continuity through the 2 metal parts of the plug on the light, it takes the magnetic connection to pull the pieces together inside the light to get continuity for it to start charging.
That would be awesome to travel the globe and get shots of everybody with their new lights. But, unfortunately, my jet is experiencing technical difficulties and the new turbines won’t be in until lat Sept. So the pilot has gone on walkabout. Meaning, I have no way to get there. And this is even more true when I wake up…
The little indicator light illuminates when the light is turned on. There must be a fault in the charging circuit in the battery carrier. I’ll play around with it…wipe the contacts with alchahol and such. Right now I’m getting no charging current.
When you plug in the wall wart is there a light on it that comes on?
If you’re trying to charge with a USB port, is that port capable of 2A?
Mine landed in California! Wooooo! 
Should be here next week sometime.
Light in the supplied wall wart is on. I also tried a different 2A adaptor. No indicator light comes on on the tailcap. I’m reading no current draw from the charger using a USB doctor. I tried two different USB doctors to make sure.
Ouchy, is the battery holder oriented the correct way? I don’t think it’s reversible and the thicker part is supposed to go in first in contact with the charging port.
The problem is solved. While I was cleaning the contacts with alchohol, I noticed the little magnetic button in the center of the charging cord was cockeyed. It must be mounted with a small spring behind it, and it was pushed in and jammed sideways. It got it popped back out easily, and it is now busy charging away.
It’s dark now and I just got my first look…wow…what a beam!
Have fun!
Woohoo! Now if the USPS can get it to Texas…
The charger is putting out between .69A and .80A. I’ll let it top off my cells and then check their voltage with my DMM.
Everything I found on it indicated 500mA to each cell for 2A total. Seems odd unless it’s just that the cells are close to full already.
Maybe I should correct that…the site seems to say it charges at 500mA but Selfbuilts review shows plainly that the wall wart makes 2A draw. A bit confusing there. Possibly it does 500mA through a USB port and 2A through the wall wart. Don’t know.
That could be. My cells are pretty much topped, so the current could differ depending on depletion. Right now it’s pretty steady between .75A and .79A. I tried another 2.A charger and it’s about the same.
I’ll run some more tests with depleted cells to see what happens.
How did you test yours. I’m using a charge doctor…two of them for confirmation.
I haven’t yet found a 2.A rated wall wart that will put out over 1.A unless it’s made by apple or some big exclusive specialized hi-tech company.
I don’t have mine yet. :8) I’ve been researching and checking out reviews and ran across the information I shared from known quality reviewers like Selfbuilt.