My ancient HDS EDC Basic 42 GT has been acting oddly recently. It's been draining batteries fairly quickly, like within 2 weeks with it just sitting on my table, unused. In the last few weeks, I caught it twice spontaneously turning itself on (maybe that's why it drains?). One time, I found it on and it wouldn't turn off but would change levels. I've done soft resets each time I put another AW RCR123 in it after finding it dead. Today, I caught the light giving me the low battery warning blinks, so I did a 10 sec. hard reset, verified normal factory operation, set it down, and an hour later found it had turned itself on. This light has been modified years ago with a more modern tail cap and a Nichia 219A, but everything had been working great.
Poltergeists? Just bad contacts somewhere? Known flaw?
Poltergeists? Just bad contacts somewhere? Known flaw?