HighlanderNorth
Flashlight Enthusiast
I was one of the people who pre-ordered the original SC-52 in the fall of 2012. Received it in December, and I started carrying the SC-52 in spring 2013. I carried it for over 2 years, when I somehow lost it. It was always in my front pocket with a hand woven paracord lanyard I made myself.
The lanyard had gotten hung on branches before, causing the light to slide out of my pocket, but I managed to find it each time with minimal effort. But the 4th occurrence in spring 2015 didn't work out as well. It was lost for good.
Then, a few days ago I was spreading mulch for an old client. There's a dense group of 3.5 foot tall Japanese hollies in front of his house. I had pruned them back severely last fall, and now was able to see underneath of them. While pulling out a few dead twigs, I grabbed hold of something else that was half buried in mud, which turned out to be the SC-52.
It was partially caked in mud, but once I rinsed and cleaned it, I removed the tailcap to find NO obvious moisture inside the battery tube. The Eagletac 14500 inside it looked fine. My XTAR VC4 showed the 14500 to have 0 volts initially, but it quickly jumped up to 3.5v. I was even able to recharge it.
But the good news seems to stop there. Initially, the light blinked when I temporarily installed a new AA battery, as it normally did. But the switch won't turn it on or off with a normal click. The only way it still worked, was to hold the switch down, and it would cycle through 3-4 brightness levels. But now that doesnt even work. It still blinks when screwing down the cap, but the switch seems dead.
Is it possible to remove & replace, or repair the switch, or is it likely a circuitry issue? Here's the photo of it as soon as I found it: **LOOK up my photos at Imgur under my screen name BrockRambo.
The lanyard had gotten hung on branches before, causing the light to slide out of my pocket, but I managed to find it each time with minimal effort. But the 4th occurrence in spring 2015 didn't work out as well. It was lost for good.
Then, a few days ago I was spreading mulch for an old client. There's a dense group of 3.5 foot tall Japanese hollies in front of his house. I had pruned them back severely last fall, and now was able to see underneath of them. While pulling out a few dead twigs, I grabbed hold of something else that was half buried in mud, which turned out to be the SC-52.
It was partially caked in mud, but once I rinsed and cleaned it, I removed the tailcap to find NO obvious moisture inside the battery tube. The Eagletac 14500 inside it looked fine. My XTAR VC4 showed the 14500 to have 0 volts initially, but it quickly jumped up to 3.5v. I was even able to recharge it.
But the good news seems to stop there. Initially, the light blinked when I temporarily installed a new AA battery, as it normally did. But the switch won't turn it on or off with a normal click. The only way it still worked, was to hold the switch down, and it would cycle through 3-4 brightness levels. But now that doesnt even work. It still blinks when screwing down the cap, but the switch seems dead.
Is it possible to remove & replace, or repair the switch, or is it likely a circuitry issue? Here's the photo of it as soon as I found it: **LOOK up my photos at Imgur under my screen name BrockRambo.
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:thinking::shrug:I uploaded the pics to a photo compressor, compressed them, then tried to upload them here, as I would in many other sites. But when I click on the photo icon, there's no option to upload from my phone photo gallery, and the only other option seems to be to try and upload my pics from my phone to Imgur, then click on ^the photo option, and paste the photo url from Imgur. But it would NOT upload the picture that way either! They aren't giving me ANY clues as to why it failed to upload.
