New RDS from Olight

[Moonpie]

Osight red dot sight features industry-first magnetic charging cover, 3 MOA, large window, battery percentage display, and over 70 days of battery life at brightest mode with its charging cover.

Osight red dot sight features industry-first magnetic charging cover, 3 MOA, large window, battery percentage display, and over 70 days of battery life at brightest mode with its charging cover.

www.olightstore.com

Interesting.

 

[zackmars]

Brilliant. Add more explosives to your gun.


How long before olight racks up the first confirmed kill by an optic?

 

[Moonpie]

Brilliant. Add more explosives to your gun.


How long before olight racks up the first confirmed kill by an optic?

Huh?

 

[no2gates]

I assume you're referring to the Lithium Ion battery that it has?
How is that any different that a cell phone you put up against your face to make phone calls?

 

[A1Oni]

anything made by olight is fucking trash

l m a o

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[Shady]

the 5-6 free flash Lights I have gotten from them from when they first came around all are still running strong. One of the mini rechargables is on my key ring and gets beat to crap.

 

[V-Tach]

Interesting........

They won't be the only ones to utilize the technology.....many will soon follow..........

 

[zackmars]

Huh?

An olight blew a dudes jaw off and killed him

 

[zackmars]

I assume you're referring to the Lithium Ion battery that it has?
How is that any different that a cell phone you put up against your face to make phone calls?

Well samsung does make howitzers and APC's, so i suppose it is possible my phone's manufacturer has killed someone at some point

But seriously olight has terrible circuitry which is why so many of their lights like to burn too hot then die.

Just a few examples

 

[popper]

And they made exploding washing machines too.

 

[zackmars]

anything made by olight is fucking trash

l m a o

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They're an MLM scam based on flashlights. It's crazy.

 

[Otto_Mation]

I am a little wary of a rechargeable optic. Suppose you are at shooting class and your battery runs out of juice. You can't just replace a battery and carry on. You have to wait for the optic to charge. Kind of like a long trip in a Tesla.

 

[zackmars]

I am a little wary of a rechargeable optic. Suppose you are at shooting class and your battery runs out of juice. You can't just replace a battery and carry on. You have to wait for the optic to charge. Kind of like a long trip in a Tesla.

Another issue is that with olight, they have, or at least had a strict 1 year warranty.

Their CS approach to most issues is "buy another one".

 

[no2gates]

I am a little wary of a rechargeable optic. Suppose you are at shooting class and your battery runs out of juice. You can't just replace a battery and carry on. You have to wait for the optic to charge. Kind of like a long trip in a Tesla.

Yeah, for some things like that, I'm not a fan of things that can't have a battery swapped quickly. I'd pass on it.

 

[V-Tach]

I include in my range bag, spare AA, AAA, 9V, 2032, CR123 and LR44 batteries.....

 

[Otto_Mation]

I include in my range bag, spare AA, AAA, 9V, 2032 and LR44 batteries.....

I do the same. I even have spare sizes that I don't even need, just in case someone else might.

 

[Whistler]

Yup, only Olight had issues with lithium ion batteries experiencing thermal runaway. Well except laptops, cell phones, e-bikes and cars, hoverboards and pretty much anything else that used them, the list is long and distinguished.
A 10 second DuckDuckGo search might reveal some answers... nah, it's just Olight sucks, except the one I've had for nearly a decade.

 

[zackmars]

Yup, only Olight had issues with lithium ion batteries experiencing thermal runaway. Well except laptops, cell phones, e-bikes and cars, hoverboards and pretty much anything else that used them, the list is long and distinguished.
A 10 second DuckDuckGo search might reveal some answers... nah, it's just Olight sucks, except the one I've had for nearly a decade.

Olight has a disproportionate number of issues with lights failing spectacularly. It's not just the batteries. Their chargers fail (aka melt) all the time, the tail caps can have discharge issues when it comes into contact with other metal surfaces, and the lockout mode is a faulty bandaid fix for crappy switching. How about CS? Non-existent.

Of course their MLM scheme of paid reviewers and influencers would have you believe otherwise.

I don't see surefire, cloud, streamlight, or any other companies sending C&D's to small time ebay sellers, or sending spies into other Facebook groups or forums so they can compile lists of supposed "olight haters", or banning people that think Taiwan should exist.

Even the assholes at modlight aren't that bad.

 

[paknheat]

Never had any experience with Olight, the grandson did though.

He had one of their stylus style flashlights he used for work. It burned itself up. Luckily he got it out of his pocket and dropped it on the ground just as it caught fire.


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[Whistler]

I'm not a hater or an advocate of any brand light, and no expert in any case. Evidence abounds for numerous manufacturers and it's not just flashlights but in that realm, most notably, Solarforce, Pelican and Surefire are reported to have had similar issues.
As mentioned many other devices exploded, caught fire, melted and in virtually every case it's related to batteries. Any other flaws might be unacceptable to you, I don't know, never experienced any of those other problems.
The other things may be good reasons why you dislike the brand but a blanket "because they explode!" implies they are the only one.
It doesn't matter to me what brands you trash talk but blaming a particular manufacturer for a very widespread issue strikes me as a little disingenuous.
I have no idea what their marketing has to do with the issue at all.
Seems it's sensitive to you and I have no desire to argue, you're right, Olight is the devil.