Fair enough.
First of all, although Mike did not get back to me, I have no axe to grind with him it's all heresay he said/she said at this point. I am sure he has better things to do with his time.
The main point should be: Why does a Polarion Light get activated when the switch is in the OFF position?
Background:
In terms of this issue (the previous X1 thread) I was not intentionally trying to avoid anything. I do drop into this forum a least 3-4 times a week. Sometimes the threads go sideways, so when I orginally read them, I don't always continue to scour them as they develop because they go in directions that I lose interest in.
I went back to that thread, and I did not locate any specific questions to me. I did not sell that light or even bring it into the US, so I was unaware of it's existence to that owner, which is minor point. In the back of my mind I guess I was leaving it to the person that sold him the light to take the con. But as I re-read the entire thread, it would have been good for me to jump in there and pro-actively get an answer.
If anybody has a question, E-mail is a way better way to communicate directly to me, as posts in is a thread are not always the best way to get an answer from me.
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If somebody asks me a question, I endeavor to answer it relatively quickly to the best of my ability/limited knowledge.
Back to the main point:
First of all, as far as I am aware, the X1 and the Helios share the same switching design.
Polarion has identified the fact in some instances the original switch design, the original battery design and the Polarion ballast when used together were essentially not playing well together.
This I got directly from the owner/President of Polarion when I met him overseas a few weeks ago.
The exact reason why, I don't know why. I was working through a translater, and I could not alway get all the information I wanted to and quite simply I did not want to be rude. What I did get, was that he was totally aware of the issue and satisfied that they have ID'd the problem and it is resolved.
I will ask via email for the sake of clarity at this point, if they can give me answer that I can pass on.
He did tell me, that Polarian has taken complete charge/control/ownership of the battery manufacturing along with some internal battery circuitry changes. He shared the drawings with me.
I have also seen a re-designed center section which is the where the rotary dial is situated. The new design is uses a different internal indexing/tensioning and self-cleaning scheme.
I personally believe the lack of really good indexing in some cases with respect to the magnets in the switch contributed to the undesirable Power-ON scenario. That is conjecture on my part.
I don't know whether there have been any other incremental changes to the circuitry or ballast.
So as far as I am aware out of all the lights I have put into circulation one PF40 was turning on as soon as the battery was installed. The other known instance was the X1 in the other thread. In both cases it was identifed almost immediately.
For full disclosure:
I have also had several lights that have had issues with turning off during a power-on scenario. 2 recently surfacing were pre-production lights, 1 was an X1 and 1 was another PF40.
That's 4 lights to date. 2 pre-production, 2 production.
All other issues have been isolated to battery circuitry. I replaced everybody's batteries that have had issues with fully functional batteries.
In terms of percentage of lights in circulation....It's very low. Would I like 100% yes.
Best to everybody.