Tried your Lightning Nock G??

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Received mine over the weekend. In all the advertisement/description that arrived with it, I found no install instructions or tips (I reread it several times). Thinking that I was being overly cautious and that maybe it was too simple to require instructions, I made it look like the picture. BTW: it came in 3 pieces: battery, nock with wire attached and rubber band). I placed it in a new Carbon Express 3D Select. I fired it from 20 yards toward a bag target....hmmm, no light whatsoever. Took it out of the target pulled the nock off the shaft. Hmmm X 2, the battery portion was not on the nock and was somewhere in the shaft. No amount of banging from either end was able to dislodge it. So, one 13 dollar shot and that's it. Not to mention that I now have a shaft that has a weight that won't match the rest of the dozen. Anyone had success? I'd really like this thing to work. What did I miss???

[SPIKER]

I'd say that battery is lodged up against the insert...not a good position.

See if you can fish a thin wire through the insert, and dislodge it from the shaft. If you can't, you now have one of those "weight forward" shafts that are all the rage.... ...

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Jun 1, 2008 20:15:45 GMT -5 SPIKER said:

I'd say that battery is lodged up against the insert...not a good position.

See if you can fish a thin wire through the insert, and dislodge it from the shaft. If you can't, you now have one of those "weight forward" shafts that are all the rage.... ...

I'll give it a try, Spiker....got to be a cheaper way to increase FOC. Anyway, disappointing first impression...hope there is an easy answer.

[BT]

I haven't had this happen
When you inserted the battery, did you have both spring coils in the recessed area of the nock body?.
If you go to the site, you should see a picture of how the nock should look when assembled.

I looked at the literature that you got and your right....there isn't a detailed picture

[BT]

This isn't the nock but it assembles the same way in relation to how the battery is held by the nock.

[oldgun]

I've had luck getting them out with compressed air.

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Jun 2, 2008 5:24:58 GMT -5 BT said:

This isn't the nock but it assembles the same way in relation to how the battery is held by the nock.

Wow, BT....that's the type of pic that should be included with such an expensive product. I think I did it that way, but I was mainly guessing. A couple lines of install instructions and that pic might have made the difference. Why should one have to guess? Especially to protect we mechanically disinclinced folks.

[SPIKER]

Jun 2, 2008 6:38:49 GMT -5 oldgun said:

I've had luck getting them out with compressed air.

Good idea also....but there seems to be a pattern forming here...

Red, any luck getting that one out?

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Jun 2, 2008 9:47:15 GMT -5 SPIKER said:

Jun 2, 2008 6:38:49 GMT -5 oldgun said:

I've had luck getting them out with compressed air.

Good idea also....but there seems to be a pattern forming here...

Red, any luck getting that one out?

Yep...your wire trick worked. Now I am tugging, pushing, pulling on the wire attached to the nock to get it to engage the two grooves in the battery....no luck so far. I'll keep working at it. I'll most likely try a different brand that is more "self-contained" and requires no assembly. This assembly system seems somewhat weak imho.

[Firenock]

Actually there is a very simple way to do it. My friend, there is instruction as stated on the package. "Visit www.firenock.com for fit list, legal notice, disclaimer, warranty information, and installation manual."

the actual manual which is printed on a 8.5 X 11 should be included in the package.

www.firenock.com/marketing/LightningNockLGInside.pdf
and also the below

The easiest way for you to install is to insert and rotate the battery anti-clockwise. if you do not do that, it will be very hard to install the battery. If the center pin touches more than 10 seconds with the cross lock wire, the battery may have already short out and is dead. The result is that there will be no light for sure.

I am sorry that you have such hard time installing the battery. It is sort of unusual that after 14,000 nocks I sold, you are one of the few that actually have encounter problem. To be frank, Firenock since v2.0 (March 2007) have not change the battery, battery wire, nock, at all. The only difference is the activation system. In 2008 we no longer use a reed switch, we now use an accelereation switch instead.

If you have doubt, the below link is what BT have done on test with the Firenock in 2007.
btreviews.proboards57.com/index.cgi?board=2007reviews&action=display&thread=2492

Without this patented battery wire system, when the battery is dead, how can you change it? Of course you are right, both Luminok and G5 let you change the battery much easier, but they are also 15% and 40% heavier, respectively.

The entire nock system is so different than anything else. You being first expose to this, the learning curve may be a little steeper than others. No worry, I should have the installation video on www.firenock.com up by sometime next week.

If you prefer, you can call me and I can walk you through how to install the battery. If I read you right, I believe you have already kill the battery!

Dorge Huang ([e-mail])
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