I was concerned about that little plastic switch too knowing that the light tends to get banged around pretty bad sometimes and also, if I stuck the end of the light in my mouth, as I sometimes do to hold it in position, I was worried my slobber would damage it.
I thought maybe they provided the switch assembly because it had some sort of voltage regulator in it and the LED wouldn’t work right without it, but when I put the original end cap back on the light still seems to work fine. I like it much better just using the regular twist cap on/off switch like before. There’s no more focus adjustment to fiddle with, just straight on and off. Sweet.
Also, my wife gave me a nice little Princeton Tec quad LED headlamp for Christmas too. Between the Mini-Mag and this, it looks like I shouldn’t need to drag a around a cordless flashlight with me nearly as often.
