Thread: Maxtoch died how to fix?

Toby what you want is a lightforce 270 on the vehicle and a maxtox (spelling) for walking.

Originally Posted by Toby

Yeah sure am, It doesn't take long to charge I'll give it that

That is an indication it is not working, should be 10 hours plus. New one in the post tomorrow.

The light force was left at home cause the maxtoch was mean as compared to it! Bad move

no harm done I still managed a deer and hares with the mighty 6.5 right before the light shat its self for a second time. I shit you not I shot the deer and when we pulled up next to it the light died haha. Pissed me right off though as I was still in a blood thirsty mood and wanted to find more hares and possums or silly deers

Good thing was I started thinking how to improve it and came up with the hooking it to the bike idea. I was thinking surely there must be two wires in the clicky bit at the back could you hook a wire to each one and hook to the battery so it feeds straight off the bikes battery through the torches batteries and you have light? Or not that simple?

Voltage is probably different?
I regularly spot deer at over 1000m with my lightforce and have shot them out to 600y in ideal conditions how far do you need to see?

Fuck! not that far haha thats insane!

Its a good light, but not ideal for walking around with.

Whats walking? Shoot them off the bike and drive it next to them! Bloody hell you guys must do everything the hard way. Should come down and teach you south islanders the ways of the jedi

they are not all hand fed down here mate.

No spotlighting down this way, the farms are to small. Night vision and thermal only

The other question is what 18650 batts are you using. Are they top grade panasonics or cheapies off trademe. Likely to be either charger or batts as normal runtime is 100-110 mins on continuous full noise for an M24.

maxtoch ones, good? bad?

I still wanna connect it to the bike it'll make it better for our use

Start hand feeding them VC!

Originally Posted by Toby

Start hand feeding them VC!

They are not hungry, DOC feed them green pellets.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Voltage is probably different?
I regularly spot deer at over 1000m with my lightforce and have shot them out to 600y in ideal conditions how far do you need to see?

You'll get similar range from the torch. It sounds like a crook charger because it charges too quickly and that is borne out by the run time in the torch which should be around the 1:45 mark so the two pair of batteries should last a lot longer.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I have a Maxtoch battery which dies after half an hour or so. Light dies completely and wont turn on again. One battery reads about 3.8 volts and the other nothing. They both charge up to 4.13.
So I presume its just a crook battery.
Mr Positive (online battery shop in NZ) has had some quite good specials recently if you are after 18650's fast.
I'm with you on that walking bullshit to Toby. If you cant get the bike to them, go find another one.

A shot cell.

The best cells to buy are the Panasonic 3100 or 3400s very good runtime and they last well.