Inova X1 now an X-flashlight

shao.fu.tzer

shao.fu.tzer

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I picked one of these up because the price was right and had heard they were decent. I already have a Fenix L2P and Arc-AAA so I didn't really need it, but I figured - what the hey - I've spent $17 on less. Anyway, I opened the package, popped the battery in and twisted it "on".... Nothing... I popped it open, double checked everything with a visual inspection, put it back together, and tried again... A faint flicker and then... Nothing... I tapped the head gently on my palm and few more faint flickers emitted from it. Sometime after that point I'd become quite angry and started wacking the light vigorously against my hand which resulted in a subdued strobelight effect. My final and feeble attempt at fixing it consisted of a gentle cleaning of the contacts with a Q-tip and a battery change... No effect. This is the first flashlight I've ever purchased that arrived DOA. Anyone have any ideas or do I have to send this sucker back???

Thanks in advance,
Shao
 
i would send it back to inova myself, sounds like a bad connection somewhere to me.
 
Send it back, I have an X5 that I have had since they first came out and I have taken it under water, thrown it, dropped it, you name it and it keeps going. Sounds like you just got a defect.
 
Hmmmm... Inova wants $5... and it will be $2 at least or so to ship it. So now my $17 flashlight has bloomed into a $24 flaslight. Shazam!

Shao
 
When my X5 died(1st set of batts worked perfectly, and then it quit working) I spent a year trying to get ahold of someone, was finally told to send it in and they'd replace it. Cost me shipping to them and that was it.


Great CS when they want to be.:thumbup:
 
Did you put the batter in correctly? On Inova's the positive end of the battery points towards the tailcap (which is reverse of most lights).

--dan
 
Not on the X1. I'm pretty sure the instructions tell the opposite. If it was in backwards, there would be no light at all. I flipped it around to check it out and there's not even a flicker that way. If I hold the light at a certain angle with the tailcap screwed down I can sometimes get sustained light. Does anyone know how to get the head off one of these things?

Shao
 
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