Can somebody please explain the process to reset the predator pro to factory settings?
Predator Pro programming... not for the faint of heart.
I haven't done a reset personally, but I interpret the instructions as follows:
Part I - Entering the setup menu
Starting with your light on and head loose (line 2), enter the setup menu by:
1) Tighten head.
Wait until the light switches to the First Line (approximately 1 second).
2)
Quickly (within 3 seconds of light switching to first line),
a) Loosen head 1/4 turn
b) Turn the flashlight off and on again with two full presses of the tail button.
Part II - Selecting the correct setup menu function
The light should blink between 1 and 5 times. Take note of how many times it blinks. We want it to blink twice - for menu item #2: Factory Reset.
If it blinks 1,3,4, or 5 times, you will need to cycle through the items to get to #2. Cycle through them one item at a time with a fast (less than 1 second), off-on double click of the tail button.
Once you've reached 2 blinks for menu item 2, do a fast (less than 1 second) tighten-loosen of the head.
You should now be in the Factory Reset menu. How to tell whether you are or not? Read on in Part III to find out!
Part III - Activating a factory reset
If you successfully entered the factory reset menu, the light will now cycle automatically through the three preset programs: 1 blink for military (factory default), 2 blinks for outdoor, and 3 for custom. Then it starts back at 1 again, etc...
So to do the reset, you need to wait for the desired preset to appear (1 blink - military), and then do a quick (less than one second) tighten-loosen of the head. The light will load the factory defaults for that preset, and exit the setup menu completely.
Chances are, it's the military preset that you need to do a factory reset on because that's what these ship from the factory with as the active preset, so start with that one and try using the light again. If it's still all wonky for you, then repeat the whole process above to reset the "outdoor" and "custom" presets as well.
After reading the above steps, you might find this graphic to be a useful visual reminder. It shows the menu selection process
after Part I above: