How To Stop Your Hunting Light From Blink / Strobe Mode 

Man I just repeat all you did and worked same for me. Finally no more hassle switching between modes. Thanks very much for this video.

Totally agree with you about the useless strobe mode and don't worry about your soldering mines as bad . Jim

THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR VIDEO BRO, I SPEND 3 HOURS TRYING TO OPEN THIS FLASH LIGHT

Hey man, saw the video and this helped me out! When i bought a few of these lights (came in a pack of 3 from amazon as J5 Tactical flashlights) they advertised it as "tactical" and as an inexperienced 18 year old kid with a minimum wage job and a fascination for "tacticool" shit i bought them. They had the strobe effect (affect? idk which) as a means of "self defense". The "teeth" on the front of the flashlight are called crennelations and they're there in case you need to hit an attacker or a mugger. I thought it was cool but years later i was like "damn that stupid strobe light is more of an inconvenience than anything." Thanks for the vid, helped me out a ton!

I've been wondering how to get rid of that feature. Thank you! It drives me friggin batty and all I ever wanted is a normal flashlight

Thanks man, have a good one. I've got one of these big boy types, a quite expensive variant and also a few tiny ones surprisingly they all have that strobe mode, which I thought before prying it open that someone must have found it annoying and disassembled it. I think its quite handy for the law enforcers during encounters to disorient baddies in a non lethal way. I remember seeing this once in the parody movie called Kickass. They could have added an internal toggle to bypass this. Dumb cost/hassle saving design overall.

Yo man nice tutorial.. I followed your instructions & now my 2 china lights i use at work has now only 1mode each..anyway im from here Philippines👍

The strobe is there for when the lights are used against people in a self-defense senario. Same bulbs, they aren't going to make a separate one.

So any idea how to preserve the 'dim' function while disabling the strobe? Or on a multicolor light, which has multiple LEDs of course, disable the strobe or alternating function but still allow you to select each of the colors individually? This is more common on lanterns for camping, emergency lights, etc. which is the kind I NEED to hack.

Hi brother, can you specify the wire you change is positive or negative wire??Super thx

The blinking effect is use for self protection

Really great video. Thank you

These flashlight modes should be illegal, flashlight which doesn't have normal on/off is completely useless, if there are some modes, it needs to have extra switch to change them, unfortunately only very expensive flashlights have it like that, it better to find some simple cheap flashligt with only on/off, but unfortunately even most of those cheap ones have these stupid modes now. I wasted so much money for flashlights in last 10 years and most of them were useless so I have to always modify it somehow, sometimes it's easy, sometimes you will destroy that flashlight while trying to mod that. The worst thing is that when you order it only, you don't know how it operates because shops and manufacturers don't inform you about the most important thing - what modes it has and how you change them, seriously, I don't understand how can they sell products without such basic informations, it's like some lootbox in games, you are buying something totaly random and you don't know what it's gonna be. But be careful with these modes, it's good only for 3W leds max, when it's more, it can't handle constant full power because of heat and also it will eat battery fast, so don't buy overpowered flashlights when you want to remove modes. But it's pretty easy to buy nice 3W warm light led online and replace it, I do that all the time because warm 3000K light is better in darkness than those terrible blueish cold leds. Your flashlight in the video is some outdated model, with today flashlights it's not that easy because 1st - it's not about minus cable, that is directly connected to battery and 2nd - flashlight is on always on regime and switch is vice versa cutting off electricity or it's just microbutton for changing regimes and one of those regimes is off. So you can't directly connect plus and minus to baterry (+ add resistor) because you won't be able to turn it off, you have to modify or replace off button. BTW, even those low brightnes modes are useless because it's some stupid PWM regulation and it's doing stroboeffect and such light is very annoying and you don't want to work under such light.

Man that really is a top tip

Thanks for the tip

Why? Because it is "TaCtIcOoL".

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THANK YOU!!!

Well, word for word I followed it to the letter, matter of fact my fl is identical at the wiring point as yours, but it didn’t work, bummed out, I can’t STAND this bs strobe crap, any other ideas??? Thanks

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Hi brother, can you specify the wire you change is positive or negative wire??Super thx