Back in December 2005 I bought several of the Fenix L1s with the premium "R" bin Lux1. One gets used maybe once a month, one gets used maybe twice a year, and one is still in the box.
My son took the "twice-a-year" light camping and when he came back, he told me he dropped it on the trail and it stopped working. The trail was dirt and the body looks pretty pristine so I surmise it did not take much of a jolt. Switching out the head pieces shows the problem is there (the led or electronics) rather than the switch or elsewhere.
I hate to trash a nearly-new light, but I am not enough of a geek to start tearing the innards apart, testing voltages, currents, resistances, etc. Any opinions on what might have happened or if there is a reasonable/simple approach to fixing it?
Thanks.
My son took the "twice-a-year" light camping and when he came back, he told me he dropped it on the trail and it stopped working. The trail was dirt and the body looks pretty pristine so I surmise it did not take much of a jolt. Switching out the head pieces shows the problem is there (the led or electronics) rather than the switch or elsewhere.
I hate to trash a nearly-new light, but I am not enough of a geek to start tearing the innards apart, testing voltages, currents, resistances, etc. Any opinions on what might have happened or if there is a reasonable/simple approach to fixing it?
Thanks.
