KR1AA beam is looking good

“making the difference” in whether a button has missed clicks, or has unintended double clics, is not a function of the button having or not having a trit slot

this person has a trit button and their switch has been giving unintended double clics, when trying to do a single clic:

“The button does things randomly often. It will double press on a single. I will go to turn the light off and get blasted with turbo. Sometimes the light flickers up and down like it thinks I’m toggling rapidly between ramp up and down.”

and to make matters worse, their button has now stopped working altogether, after soaking the tailcap in alcohol overnight.

the metal dome that is the switch, is held by adhesive tape. Soaking in a solvent ruins the adhesive, and then the switch stops working.

more details here:

“The reason mine wasn’t working at all after I used the debonder is because the cross shaped flexible switch had slid off to the side.”

he fixed it.. described here:

moral of the story.. retaining rings that are glued should not be freed with a solvent that will also release the adhesive tape over the switch dome.

imho the root cause of switch problems is that the metal dome is held by tape

when I first received one of my KR1AA, a V1 with no trit nor magnet, I also experienced unintended High outputs, as if I had double clicked, when I was just trying to turn the light off..

that has stopped happening. Im guessing the tape over the metal dome has released just enough around the edges, so the domed metal switch can be pressed and then springs back freely.

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