r/Olightflashlights

Crushed my light in a 300 ton plastic injection machine, surprisingly it still works except the UV which was completely obliterated.

Well it was not a remote but a arkfield Olight pro…. I had no idea what it was … it was beat up and had been run over by cars… but everything worked still after playing with it… I’m a field technician so I was was using it for work that day and I liked it was super powerful for the size and I was using the laser to point out things to people… then I looked it up online for the price !!!!! $130 eeeek after my day at work using it I came home to charge it it was at a bar on the right side….. I plugged it in and it said was fully charged in like 5 mins I was like that dosent seam right …. Took it off the charger and it only read 2 bars???? I used it at for 2 days on that charge then all of sudden nothing it was dead wouldent do anything… plugging it did nothing also figured it was done… but out of curiosity I banged it on the counter super hard !!!! And it was back to live 2 bars… used it for day same thing had to slam it hard to start working again…. Now I’m thinking it’s a bad idea to continue using it charging is not working for and having to beat it to work I don’t want the lipo pack to explode…. But I got new toy for prime day cheap!!!

Obviously I can order the olight charger thing, but that's a bit too expensive for me since these are the only rechargeable batteries I have. What're some cheaper options that's safe to use? Google said i have to use a compatible charger Amazon has one that's like $10-$15 and olights website doesn't have any info on it.

Any help is appreciated I'm new to olight (just got my first arkpro) so I'm trying to learn about their products I haven't owned rechargeable AAs or AAAs in probably 15 years.

Very first giveaway I’ve won! I’ve already got the Ultra on my keychain so I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this one but it does look pretty cool.