Changing a battery in a flashlight is hardly comparable to an LS swap LMAO. Why did they pay out the family? Why don’t American lights kill their users when using the same batteries? American lights have current limiters to prevent batteries from overheating and exploding
It was an Olight T20. There were no modifications required to the light. Simply twist off the end, and throw another battery in. This wouldn’t have happened had a competent company designed the light.
No, the vast majority of American designed/made lights have basically built-in cell protection to shield them from liability in the event of exactly this kind of user error.
It adds a little more to the cost, but it’s assumed to pay for itself by your customers not suing you for blowing yourself up.
The best analogy here is the ford pinto. Batteries for flashlights are like gas for cars. The protection circuit is like fire sealing foam on the gas tank.
You could also argue Olight was acting in an upstanding manner as a company by paying the family because it's just a shit situation, not because they were negligent. If an American light did it, you wouldn't fault them for helping the family with the cost of medical or funeral cost. You'd applaud them for doing what's right.
I guarantee that even with a protective circuit, an unwrapped battery will circumvent any safety measure built in. Try it out yourself. The circuit prevents reverse polarity, or overcurrent to protect the LED or circuitry, NOT the battery. Electronics are never 100% safe. The protective circuit can totally fail, too. It's like putting a pissin-hot handload into a revolver. Sure, it's designed to handle normal pressures and do so safely; but if you do something that completely disregards that, it's gonna go wrong on ya.
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