Instructions for Streamlight ProTac HL 50-X, Ten-Tap programming?

[lumen aeternum]

Streamlight has a generic page about ten-tap, but says consult the instructions that come with your light for exact functions.
www.streamlight.com/resources/learning-left/ten-tap-programming-for-flexible-lighting-options

The instructions for the Streamlight ProTac HL 5-X are not online. There is a Fact sheet & Data sheet, but they do not cover ten-tap programming:
www.streamlight.com/en/products/detail/index/protac-hl-5-x#documents

This out of date sheet on the HL series is all I could find:
www.andax.com/Document/Streamlight/protac-hl_op_inst (1).pdf

I had my light set for low-med-high but after messing around it stays on one brightness. Not sure if the 4x disposable CR123 suddenly fell below a threshold, or if I entered a "single brightness only" mode.

 

[xxo]

Each time you do the ten taps and hold thing it changes to the next group of modes, there are usually only 3 or 4 groups.

 

[hsa]

Probably battery issue. It would be pretty hard to re program the ten tap system without knowing you did it.

 

[bykfixer]

It's probably the batteries. My HL4 still has the batteries it came with and won't prompt high anymore. I haven't changed them because the 600 lumen medium is my favorite setting for that light and it starts out on medium. When it will only prompt low I'll put in new batteries and use the old ones in a 1 cell incan light.

One level only setting is high mode only. Now if your one level is high it could be a malfunction of the light. I have a Manker that at times has a mind of it's own and other times decides to operate normal.

Ten tap is 9 half press and hold the tenth one but you probably knew that. But if I recall correct high only is mode 2 and lo/me/hi is mode 3. So if you accidently reprogrammed it you would have had to go past the factory mode to get to high only.

Or perhaps the cat did it……

 

[lumen aeternum]

Each time you do the ten taps and hold thing it changes to the next group of modes, there are usually only 3 or 4 groups.

I need the instructions to know what the modes are. They differ in older lights & from model to model.
Seems you need to know the sequential number of the mode you are starting in, so you can count forwards to the one you desire.

 

[xxo]

I'm sorry, I don't know what they are on the HL50X (don't own one). Don't remember what they are on the one that I do own, I usually just ten tap to the next mode group until I get the one that I want.

 

[RWT1405]

Is this what you seek?

The bottom of the sheet provides the "10 Tap" information


PROTAC HL® 5-X USB/PROTAC HL® 5-X :: DATA SHEET (streamlight.com)

 

[lumen aeternum]

Yea, that has the 3 modes. Still fails to tell the user HOW to enter different modes... So you have to find another doc (which I have). Big fail to make customers works so hard to use the effing thing.

 

[RWT1405]

Yea, that has the 3 modes. Still fails to tell the user HOW to enter different modes... So you have to find another doc (which I have). Big fail to make customers works so hard to use the effing thing.

I must be stupid, because I don't understand what you're asking then.

bykfixer explained how to use the "Ten Tap" to switch modes, and you've been told, and now shown, what those modes are, which is what I thought is what you asked.

As such, I'm having great difficulty in understanding what exactly you're asking here, and don't understand.

 

[bykfixer]

Heck, a google search says HL50 is a headlamp. And no protac HL50-x even showed up.

 

[hsa]

All "ten tap" programs on Streamlight products have a high in it. The "high" on HL-5x is 2500 lm with primarys and 3500 with li-ion.

 

[lumen aeternum]

As such, I'm having great difficulty in understanding what exactly you're asking here, and don't understand.

I'm saying that I can't believe Streamlight is so stupid that they don't have a document telling the buyer both WHAT the modes are, AND how to use the 10-tap user interface.

 

[bigburly912]

Features TEN-TAP[emoji768] Programming - Choice of three user selectable programs:
1) high/strobe/low 2) high only 3) low/medium/high
High (SL-B26 battery packs): 3,500 lumens; 452m beam; runs 1.25 hours
High (CR123A): 2,500 lumens; 385m beam; runs 1.5 hours
Medium: 1,000 lumens; 237m beam; runs 2.5 hours (CR123A); runs 3 hours (SL-B26 battery packs)
Low: 250 lumens; 120m beam; runs 10.5 hours (CR123A); runs 11.5 hours (SL-B26 battery packs)
Strobe for signaling or disorienting: runs 1.5 hours (CR123A); runs 1.25 hours (SL-B26 battery packs)


Nobody here is trying to be an ***. Everything you've asked for has been posted. I don't know what else streamlight or any of us could do to help you further. Sorry

 

[bykfixer]

The light comes with instructions……

 

[hsa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGQF4Gw3n3s

 

[bigburly912]

^ it is more than likely a battery problem