I bought an aimpoint micro t-1 a month and a half ago. The day i took it home, i put the batteries in and played with the settings to see how bright it got etc. After 10 minutes of playing, while turning it down after setting it to setting 12, the dot flickered then died.
I was like FML…thought there was something wrong with the optic. However, before calling aimpoint, i went to the store and picked up new batteries. After putting new batteries in, the optic started working again like normal.
This past saturday, a month and a half after i bought it, the damn optic is dead again! :mad: I had it on setting 8.
Anyone have this problem? If so what did you do? If you sent it in, what did aimpoint do?
I called aimpoint and was transferred to John Enloe the celebrity of AOTTC2 :sarcastic:, but he wasn’t there and never returned my VM. :sad:
Make sure the battery cap is screwed all the way down. The o-ring may trick you into thinking it is screwed down, but then the battery bounces in and out of the contacts creating the flickering dot.
I love my T-1s…That said, they have a few critical flaws that for some reason Aimpoint fails to address after several years.
The screw/screw sockets are way to easy to strip and I would not ever swap mounts if at all possible. IIrc its the front right screw that tons and tons of folks have stripped.
The way the battery/compartment/oring was designed is really ill conceived. I can all but promise you that your problem is due to either you simply not screwing the cover tight enough(Its a PITA, you have to really use elbow grease and a quarter or something.), or you have an Oring that is loose or glued not centered so that the oring is pushing one side of the cr2032 up while pushing one side down. So this oring needs to be glued down and perfectly centered and then you have to bust balls and really tighten the cover down.
I recommend buying the KAC knurled T-1 cover which allows you much better purchase and does not require a marring coin job.
i see! Well, when i get home from work i’ll have to check the battery door again. When it died the first time, i popped the battery out and made sure it was inserted tightly, however i didn’t REALLY tighten the battery door down.
Its like the magpul grip screws with the blue loctite. You think you are stripping it, and can’t go any further but they are just a pain. The bright side is you need to replace the battery once every couple years at most depending on usage.