Look, I've purchased a lot of parts on this site, and 90% of the time, it's great. But I just want to put a moratorium on something I see in the "for sale" section, relating to lights. Can we all just finally admit, once and for all, that "untested" means that it doesn't work?
I'm not necessarily trying to suggest that there was maliciousness in the shelf full of cool looking headlights I've got that don't do anything when you put batteries in there, but I'm not saying they were all bad luck buys, either. The word untested is a code that means you put batteries in there, it didn't come on, and so you don't want to bother to see if it's something simple, like a burned out bulb, or something more permanent, such as rotted out contacts. I've got one I found a wire off its bolt, but once fixed, it still didn't function. I did one of those LED conversions in the "how to" section, and now I've got a cool light. Oh well. Maybe a little pricy to get an unworking light, but I've got no complaints.
Because that's where the untested word comes from, right? "Doesn't work" it's a $10 light. "Works great" is $40. "Untested," and at least you can charge something in between the two.
Yes, this is me venting a little, but I also would be very happy if I stopped seeing that code word come up so often in the "for sale" threads.
I'm not necessarily trying to suggest that there was maliciousness in the shelf full of cool looking headlights I've got that don't do anything when you put batteries in there, but I'm not saying they were all bad luck buys, either. The word untested is a code that means you put batteries in there, it didn't come on, and so you don't want to bother to see if it's something simple, like a burned out bulb, or something more permanent, such as rotted out contacts. I've got one I found a wire off its bolt, but once fixed, it still didn't function. I did one of those LED conversions in the "how to" section, and now I've got a cool light. Oh well. Maybe a little pricy to get an unworking light, but I've got no complaints.
Because that's where the untested word comes from, right? "Doesn't work" it's a $10 light. "Works great" is $40. "Untested," and at least you can charge something in between the two.
Yes, this is me venting a little, but I also would be very happy if I stopped seeing that code word come up so often in the "for sale" threads.