Ever had problems with Peli M6 tailcap?

Hi,

some months ago I bought my little brother a Peli M6 light becuz he loves my SureFire duty lights.

Now the tailcap of the light does not work anymore.
Two officers of my squad have exactly the same problems with their lights.

I think thats a major problem for these Peli lights.
And I really wonder, if anybody else has problems with these tailcaps.

Best wishes,
Metin

No. But I never liked it.

Thanks to a CPF vender (don't have the memory of who!) mine has a Kroll switch now.

Is it the twistie or the clickie?

I haven't had any problems with my M6.

Never had a problem with mine.

Maybe it's because I have kept mine in my pocket all the time, but the switch seems to stick and I can't get a steady beam without flickering when pushing down on the tailcap, however, if I put my PM6 LED clicky on it, it works just great, so I guess it must be the tailcap.

The one of my brother is a twistie.
It has exactly the problems like the one of Greg!

I had an intermitant one once, it was quickly fixed and became my number one light..

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PlayboyJoeShmoe said:
Thanks to a CPF vender (don't have the memory of who!) mine has a Kroll switch now.

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That would probably be The Sandwich Shoppe.

This is the one real weakness of the PM6. I have owned six of them and sooner or later most of the tailcaps have proven unreliable or at least inconsistant. The after-market clickies are OK but I found that they varied in effectiveness from one unit to another. The best fix is to substitute a PM6 LED clicky as Greg has done though it's an expensive way to get a reliable (though perhaps overly sensitive) switch.

I've never understood how the same design team that created this otherwise excellent light could come up with such a "Rube Goldberg" tail switch.

Brightnorm

Anyone know of a source for Pelican clickie switches? Direct from Pelican? Maybe I'll shoot them an email.

Brightnorm,
I don't doubt that the M6 xenon's original switch left much to be desired. But as I point out in my current thread on the M6 xenon's new clickie switch, the M6 xenon now comes with a clickie--at least when you buy it from Batterystation. I'd love to hear from anyone who can compare the clickie in the M6 xenon with the clickie in the M6 LED. Are they identical? If not, how do they differ?

I have sent an email to Pelican to see if the clickies are available direct from them. We'll see what comes of it.

It doesn't appear on Pelican's Replacement parts order page. I searched for "switch" and "tail."

I checked there too. It appears to have only bulbs for the most part.

the clickies are fine but the old tactical switches SUCK

Update: Pelican sent me a replacement tail cap without me asking! We'll see if it's a clickie. Pelican's service is top-notch!

crap, if that's the case I should send them an email too. Let me know what you get, PM me if you want.

I will let you know.

Im kinda shocked to see that 9 of 17 members know problems with the Peli tailcaps.

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HEK_Hamburg said:
Im kinda shocked to see that 9 of 17 members know problems with the Peli tailcaps.

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I suppose that is why Pelican is switching to the clickies.