Zebralight sc62 /sc62w battery issues

hmihaylov said:

Hi, light rattle is what I had in my SC62 as well, with each unprotected cell I have. I used one additional wrapper for each cell and now the fit is rather tight and there is no rattle. These are cheap, easy to install and sold on eBay. Look for "18650 shrink wrap"

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TA_ls1 said:

I have both the sc62 and sc62w and am regretting it. I used orbtronic protected 18650s until realizing that the lights push in the button top because of the tight fit. I'm worried that it could cause issues to the batteries but have never run them on turbo for an extended period of time to find out. So I emailed zebralight and they suggested using the Sanyo unprotected 18650s they sell. So I ordered them and now there is a pretty bad battery rattle. Call me ocd but I absolutely can't stand battery rattle and now I won't use the lights because there will be either rattle or pushed in button tops. I emailed zebralight and no response.

Idk what to do, and this is very depressing since they were my favorite lights. Now I'm out 150.00 and am too broke to buy another light, and I will lose a lot of money if I try to sell them, but I doubt I'll even be able to since they are now becoming obsolete. Any suggestions are appreciated thanks.

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snowlover91 said:

As mentioned above the clear shrink wrap works great for the cells and should fix the issue. Never had an issue with my protected Orbtronic cells in my 62w though, what capacity are your cells? Is the tailcap a really tight fit when using the protected cells?

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markr6 said:

$1.00 for 10 sleeves of clear shrink wrap. A 30 seconds with a hair dryer. Perfect fit...in many other lights I have too!

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TA_ls1 said:

I have the 3500 mAh ones. The tail cap is pretty tight, enough to cause the button top to get pushed in.

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TA_ls1 said:

Where did you get your shrink wrap from? I see a lot of different links and options out there, and I have never shrink wrapped a batter before. Thanks.

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