Received mine a few days ago and am trying to solve a problem. Light illuminates after battery is installed and screwed together and with the head and tailcap removed I’m reading a short between the contact points of the inner switch + tube and the outer tube - contact points.
Mine was bought in BG (11.11) https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/31589/4838
I still haven’t bought anything from Neal.
Shipping fees ($6 each order) kill the deal and… Neal’s reputation is not the best…
please note!
This one will fit the battery 71mm 21700 (shorter tube than 1st batch!)
Lumintop changed the design to make sure contact is good and to avoid the use of protected cells! (customers complained about tripped battery fuses)
After installing battery and screwing on the head it ramps up, after which sometimes intensity varies up and down, and switch has no effect. Meter reads 0.00 ohms between inner switch + tube and outer body tube - with and without the tailcap.
Oh, so just the battery tube and the inner tube, no head or tail, you measure a short? I dont think I’ve heard of anyone having this issue. (Except Toykeeper on her prototype)
Do you see any of the black anodization rubbed away or scraped? It seems the fix would be to wrap the outside of the black tube with kapton tape like Kawiboy said.
I didn’t see any obvious damage to the anodizing. I plan to try kapton tape but I have to order some. Before that I’ll try wrapping some teflon tape around the inner tube.
Fixed! Seems to be operating properly now. Quick clean of inner tube and inside of outer tube, inserted inner tube to a point with o-ring seated and very high resistance (55 M ohms) between the tubes, installed the tail cap, and inner + tube to outer reads open on the 60M range.
At this point I am very satisfied with the fw21. The only suggestion I have is a groove at the inner edge of the head end of the outer ground tube for an o-ring to help maintain no-contact space between the outer body ground tube and inner tailswitch + tube. Anodizing may be good for insulation but it’s not perfect.
Just reviewing the FW21 for my channel now, complete fail of a light (Lumintop recommend 10A> unprotected button tops, none fit lol) and Lumintop won’t answer my messages which furthers the misery of this project.