Just curious about this. Every light that I own that can be locked out, can also be unlocked by removing the tail cap. Except one: Olight S15R. Anyone know why this is? Doesn’t work on this light, I still have to do the ‘hold switch down’ to get it to come back. Can the electronic genius here explain this to me? Thanks!
If you are talking about the physical lockout, check the tail threads of your S15R, see if they are bare or if they are anodized.
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If you are talking about the UI lockout, then … :quest:
yea, talking about the UI lockout. I’m always able to reset it by unscrewing the tailcap …. except in the case of this S15R?
Thats odd, my S15R locks out just fine with a 1/4 turn of the tail cap. There must be some contact through the threads on your light, as mentioned above the threrads on the body and inside the cap should be fully anodized black as both my S15 and S15R are anodized.
I’d guess it has some internal memory. If the tailcap of my Tiara C1 is unscrewed when the light is on (breaking the circuit and turning off the light,) it comes back on in that same mode when the tailcap is tightened again. It also comes back on in the same mode when the protection circuit of my olight cell trips off then comes back on in a couple minutes.
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So with your light, the UI lock-out is memorized in a similar way.
while in the OFF position, hold down the switch button until the light appears and then disappears. It is now locked out. Now unscrew the tailcap, take out the battery if u wish, then reassemble. On all my other lights this will reset the light and it will not be in lockout mode. On this light, doing that does nothing, it is still in lockout mode. Weird.
mine does that too, but it will not turn on accidentally with the tail cap loosened. ( the battery is disconnected from the light as a lock out.) i believe the S15 driver has a memory feature for modes that work with the electronic lock-out too. All my S-series Olights still saves the mode it was last used in even if the batteries have been completely removed from the light for days or more.
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Can the electronic genius here explain this to me
Why would Olight design a switch that also needs a physical lockout? They could have gone with a twisty instead?