How to disassemble the Olight S15R Baton flashlight
Channel: Martin Weber
Date: 2021-02-16

IMPORTANT NOTES regarding the repair presented at the end:
Only use Li-Ion batteries with integrated undervoltage and short-circuit protection when applying the fix presented by me! Under voltage breaks the battery. A short circuit without a protected battery might heat up and burst (ouch!). Also, don't use the charging dock that comes with the light. Instead, take out the battery and charge it externally!



Content:
In this video I explain how to disassemble the Olight S15R Baton flashlight. I don't take it apart though, as much of it is altered anyways for my dirty repair. I briefly also explain how I threw out the (broken) electronics and hooked it up directly to the battery. It can now be turned on and off by screwing the battery cover.

I sayed I needed a 0.2 Ohms resistor. That was actually not correct. Measuring the current showed that a 3.3 Ohms resistor was quite perfect to limit the current to 3A. I don't know if there was a mistake in my theoretical calculation or my multimeter is way off. Whatever the case is, it's better to stay safe and take the higher resistance.