Do you just put it in the cradle to charge it and power goes to the cradle or does the charging cord have to plug into the flashlight itself?
1171427
The power cord goes to the cradle. There are contacts on the cradle that touch the flashlight when it's in place.
1171428
Power cord plugs into cradle, then the flashlight just snaps into the cradle.
1171429
There is a chord to the base which the flashlight itself mounts in to charge. No cord to flashlight only to base. The silver ring around the flashlight is how it transfers the volts from the base to the flashlight.
1171430
Yes the power goes to the cradle. Mount the cradle down and snap in the flashlight and charges while its in cradle.
871770
It is primarily a charging cord. If run dead may take a few minutes to come up but the draw down on this is not bad so should be pretty operational within a short period. Excellent light and extremely bright.
1693112
Do you mean using the cradle? Not that I know of. I plug mine in to the micro USB to charge it.
1350739
Your phone charger wire will plug into the cradle. The phone mounts securely in the cradle which charges the phone. Depending where plug your charger in, you may want a very long charger cable so you can route it out of view. All in all it is a very nice cradle.
1275025
The flashlight part of it charges right along with the charger itself. I love mine!!
310165
No. Even if you take it out of the charger and turn it on, when you out it back in the charger it turns off automatically. Not possible to have the flashlight on while in the charger.
1855363
Lately I've been a bit disappointed with the flashlights run time. I usually keep mine on the base but it's been dying withing 20 minutes or so, with noticeable kick down after maybe 5 minutes. This is leading me to believe it's probably better to charge it then take it off then only charge it when it's discharged. That's basically what I did with the first one I had and the battery had longer full run time over a much greater period of time.
100865
You would have to crank it to provide power to the USB, but the flashlight on the device already provide light. It doesn't operate as a battery pack would. The cranking operation charges the battery to the flashlight and also outgoing power to the USB during the cranking. The flashlight works on its own without cranking, but the USB does not. Hope that makes sense.
2038893
You plug it in to recharge it. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ye3eiXSr-A
280342
I had the same problem, took a bit to figure out. There is a 1/2 inch long, thin rubber strip near the top of the flashlight. It fits into two small holes - one has a place for the charger pin, the other has nothing in it. Just lift both ends of this strip, you'll see the receptacle in one of them.
2128995
no you can't. You have to take the battery out and charge it. Some people complain about that. I work at a police department and am in charge of purchasing flashlights among other things. We started changing over from our old magcharger lights to these about a year and half ago. We have about 30 of them in the field. So far they have been great. A single charge lasts an exceptionally long time and it has a very low discharge rate when not in use. Personally I charge it about once a month and have yet to have it die on me. It's a great flashlight for the money and I would highly recommend it.
1224298
Yes...you remove the battery and recharge it in the charger. I've had mine sitting on the nightstand for about two months now and it still appears to be charged so unless you use it a lot, you shouldn't have to charge it very often. This is a great flashlight...I need to buy another one for the car.
2089056
Whoops! Not sure what I was thinking--the other responses are correct: you put the entire light in its cradle to charge. Very simple.
1443398
The charger is current limited. It will just take longer to charge the higher capacity. Most flashlights now use a LED controller ic to drive the LED. The flashlights just run longer with the higher capacity.
1252598
You need to charge it just as if it were a phone. There are three ends to the power cord the small rectangle goes into the speaker and the larger rectange in your power charger connected to an outlet. hope this helps
2090122
I recently bought one and yes you do need to charge it before you use it and yes it needs to be on why you charge. also you may need to flick the switch on the back that says super bright. I hope this helps
1975274
Mine came with a charger that plugs into the flashlight and a normal home outlet.