Stenlight Trouble

royfellows

royfellows

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I not going to scrap it.

It is an extremely robustly constructed lamp and although I am not going to waste my life on it I will give a lot of thought to it. If I can offer something useful, I will only charge you a pittance for the fun of having a go.

A StenDragon sounds rather good.
 
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jeskynar

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My Stenlight has just developed an odd problem - it comes on ok but then at some point while switching brightness it will go off and stay off. No amount of fiddling will fix it unless I unplug the battery then when plugged in again it works until the next time I fiddle with it.

Sten seem to think it's just the cable although I'm not entirely sure. A new cable isn't expensive to buy, but it has to be imported from USA and postage costs more than the cable which makes it less tempting to buy it just to try it.

Any suggestions?
 
mrodoc

mrodoc

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I have an Earthworm that does this intermittently and Simon Mullens who makes them says it is likely to be a cable fault that changes the voltage and affects the software. The lamp goes out suddenly (happens more at higher settings) and then if I unplug and plug in again all is fine. He'll fix when I get round to giving it to him (just got to get round to it).
 
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superterminal

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Does anyone know where we can get Stenlights repaired these days?

I have had mine for a few years now and always been fine and looked after. When I went to charge it last time it flickered light for a little bit and did nothing. It won't charge and I have no idea if it is the battery / light unit or charger itself that is broken? (I am assuming not the charger as the light still comes on that but just doesn't seem to do anything)

I have emailed every email address I can find for Stenlight over the last month or so, but got absolutely no replies from anyone.

It seems a shame to have to just bin such a good and expensive light because they don't bother to reply.

Thanks for any advice and help anyone can offer here  :)
 
royfellows

royfellows

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I can convert Stenlights to run off my batteries, and replace Stenlight LEDs. I have other spares but no lamp leads or lamp PCBs.
Stenlights I have took apart have had PCBs fixed with 2 sided thermal tape so not removable without destroying them. LED replacement fiddly working inside the lamp, but possible.
Unable to help in any other way.

Mr Superterminal, I strongly recommend trying your lamp on someone else's battery, or on a lab PSU set to 8V output (make sure you get the polarity right!). From what I know of Stenlights, it sounds like a battery fault.
Is it the old shrink wrapped design, or the later plastic cased. If the former its probably water got to the management PCB, they damage on the slightest scuff.

 
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superterminal

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Thank you I will try and do that first then  :) Unfortunately I am not part of any caving clubs at the moment (too many other damn hobbies taking my time) but I might be caving in a couple of weeks time so will see if anyone there has one to test against.

I think it is the old shrink wrapped battery design. It looks like that and I originally bought it in 2012, but if I am honest I haven't seen a modern plastic cased one so not 100% sure either way.

If it works from someone else's battery, would it be much to convert it to run off your batteries?

Thanks again  :)
 
royfellows

royfellows

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superterminal said:
Thank you I will try and do that first then  :) Unfortunately I am not part of any caving clubs at the moment (too many other damn hobbies taking my time) but I might be caving in a couple of weeks time so will see if anyone there has one to test against.

I think it is the old shrink wrapped battery design. It looks like that and I originally bought it in 2012, but if I am honest I haven't seen a modern plastic cased one so not 100% sure either way.

If it works from someone else's battery, would it be much to convert it to run off your batteries?

Thanks again  :)
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I just cut off the old connector and solder on a male XT 60. Job done.
Will run for ever of one of my power banks.

?50 will cover the whole job, power pack, connector and postage.
 
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