Hi to all the respected, experienced members
I was hoping to ask some advice please.
I just received my new Haikelite MT 40 from Banggood.
I struggled to source button top 4 x 18650 batteries within a reasonable time frame (one local seller had Nitecore, but only 2 batteries).
I ended up buying SDNMY 4800
and then subsequently Jeff51 and the other members enlightened me, so I placed the order for the Panasonic batteries, but they both arrived at the same time.
Then I ended up with a totally flat punctured tyre in the dead of the night in the bush in darkness.
I had a head lamp I bought with me that claimed to be 12000 lumens at a cheap price with 2x 18650 button top no name brands included and a charging cable included, BUT this was useless in the bush even though bright inside the house (could not have been 12000lumens).
Then I noticed that the Panasonic batteries that I bought for the Haikelte MT 40 did not have any label on it that it was Panasonic. It stated : "cell and IC made in Japan, assembled in China", but the MT40 did not work and flashed orange indicating these 4 so called Panasonic batteries were already flat. Is it worth giving it a charge with the battery charger that came with the flashlight OR must I kick up a fuss with the seller and return them?
Then I inserted the SDNMY 4800 batteries and this worked but only for half and hour, BUT here is the problem (I am not sure if it is the MT40 or the battery).
First the activating switch works and then does not work. It goes blue sometimes and other times not,
Then when I unscrew the flashlight as if wanting to take out the batteries, but I dont take them out, then the activating button functions again.
When I can't get the flashlight to work, then I have to double click the button, but then the turbo extreme brightness goes on. So I could not get the other lower modes.
At other times when I press the button, nothing happens.
When it does go on, then the light in itself is as bright as daylight, but the flashlight is not functioning properly.
When one is in a corner in the dead of the night in the bush along the road with a flat tyre, then it leaves you in the lurch.
Do the experienced members think the problem is with the batteries or is it with the MT 40 flashlight?
I am not sure how much time Banggood gives to return the flashlight, plus how open they are to returns and then there is the inconvenience of having to pay to ship something back again abroad.
Now I connected the flashlight to the charger that came with it. Its been going for 6 hours, but the flashlight is still totally dead. So I took 2 of the 4 batteries out of the flashlight and I placed them in the so called "12000 lumen" headlamp and attached the charging cable that came with the headlamp, now I have to see what happens with the charging mechanism of this headlamp.
May I ask what the experienced audience thinks (I spent some money on my first "modern, powerful" flashlight with an interface and this is my negative experience with it. I was accustomed to just a manual button to press on and off and in between, as they used to be in the past, not an interface with one button that does multiple things, including locking it, and the user manual which is just 2 pages does not even tell you how to unlock it. I had to search on youtube how to operate this flashlight).
Thank you again to everyone
Regards
Peter