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.
Not true. Streamlight just announced their X models. Which are USB rechargeable. However they use a 123 rechargeable that can be hot swapped for a standard 123 if you want/need to in a pinch. So it accepts both! I have only ever had 1 Streamlight give me issues. They replaced it no questions asked, and honestly it was probably just because it was 8 years old at the time and had heavy use. But they sent the new model no questions asked.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.
That is however not the case with the optic that is the subject of this thread. You are talking about lights. Many of us use rechargeable batteries in weapon mounted lights. As far as I know, Streamlight does not make an optic.Not true. Streamlight just announced their X models. Which are USB rechargeable. However they use a 123 rechargeable that can be hot swapped for a standard 123 if you want/need to in a pinch. So it accepts both! I have only ever had 1 Streamlight give me issues. They replaced it no questions asked, and honestly it was probably just because it was 8 years old at the time and had heavy use. But they sent the new model no questions asked.
Yet a ton of the case subjects mentioned here are lights.That is however not the case with the optic that is the subject of this thread. You are talking about lights. Many of us use rechargeable batteries in weapon mounted lights. As far as I know, Streamlight does not make an optic.
Yet a ton of the case subjects mentioned here are lights.