Originally Posted by
rootbeer
Not hatin, or flamin'. I can only speak from personal experience, but I'm on my second front frog light that won't turn off. You click through the cycle, but it never shuts off. It'll shut off for 5-6 seconds, then kick on the cycle all over again. The LBS replaced the first one, but now after 2 months the replacement is doing it.
The simple solution is to take the battery-led capsule out of the rubbing casing and wipe the little black contact under the button, and top silver metal contact on the top of the led/battery capsule with rubbing alcohol and something CLEAN, re-assemble problem solved,
love my knog frogs as front lights, i use random PB flashers on the back, i've experienced this problem with many different kinds of blinkies, at least with the frog the contacts are easily accessible. and not glued or screwed down.
I admit they are a little over priced, but i don't care they're bright for their size and i get cr2032s 4 for a 1$!
are a remedy for dirt getting into this sort of contact switch many lights have replaced these in favor of small micro-switches (as knog did with the frog strobe). they are theoretically more reliable, but if they do go wrong you are SOL, Double irony: many of the first shipment of frog strobes had defective micro-switches.