jumpstat
Flashlight Enthusiast
Hi to all,
Lesson learned.
Freshly charged 17500 in an M3/KL2 head/Z48 and it has a beam cover (FM17) installed. Last night I did my usual weekly maintenance of all my lights. When I got to the above referred light, it failed to switch on. So I took the batts out and popped it into the WF-139. One battery failed to charge.
Ahh...so I did a check on the charger and swapped the batteries and yep, something was wrong with that particular battery. Then my heart skipped a beat :sigh:. I hope the head which is actually the KL2 X464 Milky was all right, and it was confirm to be ok when I tested the head with other batteries. Phew....:sick2:
Took a fluke multimeter and tested the suspected battery...yep dead as a door nail. :mecry: Wonder what has caused it to die prematurely. :thinking:
Upon further investigation, I found out that the night before, my wife who was out with her friends came back and wanted to use a torchlight as her earring dropped on the carpet. She said that the first light she took was the M3/KL2. She tried to switch on the light but no light came out from the front end. Her mistake was that she did not open the beamcover!:sick2::thumbsdow no wonder no light came out. I suspect that the light was on when she put the light down to get another light and thus I am pretty sure that it drained the hell out of the batteries. Just imagine getting drained by a X464 Milky head. :shrug:
So there is pro and cons using a beamcover. If it was a beamshaper installed, this issue would have been avoided.....lucky for me it was just the battery that's dead not exploded or worst !!
" Win some loose some "
Lesson learned.
Freshly charged 17500 in an M3/KL2 head/Z48 and it has a beam cover (FM17) installed. Last night I did my usual weekly maintenance of all my lights. When I got to the above referred light, it failed to switch on. So I took the batts out and popped it into the WF-139. One battery failed to charge.
Ahh...so I did a check on the charger and swapped the batteries and yep, something was wrong with that particular battery. Then my heart skipped a beat :sigh:. I hope the head which is actually the KL2 X464 Milky was all right, and it was confirm to be ok when I tested the head with other batteries. Phew....:sick2:Took a fluke multimeter and tested the suspected battery...yep dead as a door nail. :mecry: Wonder what has caused it to die prematurely. :thinking:
Upon further investigation, I found out that the night before, my wife who was out with her friends came back and wanted to use a torchlight as her earring dropped on the carpet. She said that the first light she took was the M3/KL2. She tried to switch on the light but no light came out from the front end. Her mistake was that she did not open the beamcover!
:sick2::thumbsdow no wonder no light came out. I suspect that the light was on when she put the light down to get another light and thus I am pretty sure that it drained the hell out of the batteries. Just imagine getting drained by a X464 Milky head. :shrug:So there is pro and cons using a beamcover. If it was a beamshaper installed, this issue would have been avoided.....lucky for me it was just the battery that's dead not exploded or worst !!
" Win some loose some "
