Anti - Strobe / SOS Petition ?

[old4570]

:wave: Hi folks , please chime in and be heard if you want to see flashlights without Strobe or SOS .

Im just sick to death of strobe !! :knight:

I see flashlight adds for 3 mode lights and I get all excited until I see one of the modes is STROBE , especially with SSC P7 lights , Id like to have a 3 mode light , Hi - Med - Lo , but for gawds sake no strobe .

Can we put an end to this insanity , if not just enough so that manufacturers produce strobe/SOS free flashlights for people not looking for bike lights .


:candle:

 

[Marduke]

Sounds like you just need to get non-junk lights. A well designed quality light, even equipped with strobe, will NOT require you to cycle through strobe or SOS in normal use. Fenix, LRI, ZebraLight and Nitecore are excellent examples.

 

[kramer5150]

You can add the shiningbeam L-mini II to the list of strobe less multi modes.

My solution is to swap DC-DC boards with one that has no strobe.

 

[Cosmo7809]

Gizmo your right, post deleted. However I will state my opinion.

If you dont like it, buy a different light, plenty of options out there.

 

[TooManyGizmos]

Cosmo ,

If you would please remove your eighth word - maybe it won't get locked.

The OP has a valid point - strobe and SOS is getting redundant and being overused on UI's.

We don't need it on every light we own. The purpose of a flashlight is to light our path or to provide light to the project we are working on.

No one has posted on here lately saying how their SOS light saved their life or how they blinded an attacker with their strobe light long enough to get away.

SOS/Strobe should be a specialty item for you to seek out and buy if you need or want it. It should not be as prevalant as it is now, on lights we want to use just to illuminate the darkness so we don't trip.
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[Flying Turtle]

Sounds like you just need to get non-junk lights. A well designed quality light, even equipped with strobe, will NOT require you to cycle through strobe or SOS in normal use. Fenix, LRI, ZebraLight and Nitecore are excellent examples.

Pretty much sums up my opinion. I forget it's even there with my Proton, L0D, and LF3XT.

Geoff

 

[TooManyGizmos]

Why on earth does a ZebraLight/headlamp need to have SOS and Strobe on it to fix the plumbing under the kitchen sink with two hands ??

Or while loading the moving van at night .(conserving the batt. so it will crank in morning)


Huh ?

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[Marduke]

Who cares? It's practically impossible to activate accidentally.

It's like complaining your car has four cupholders when you only ever use the front two.... :shrug:

 

[mmajunkie]

:wave: Hi folks , please chime in and be heard if you want to see flashlights without Strobe or SOS .

Im just sick to death of strobe !! :knight:

I see flashlight adds for 3 mode lights and I get all excited until I see one of the modes is STROBE , especially with SSC P7 lights , Id like to have a 3 mode light , Hi - Med - Lo , but for gawds sake no strobe .

Can we put an end to this insanity , if not just enough so that manufacturers produce strobe/SOS free flashlights for people not looking for bike lights .


:candle:

Vote with you're wallet and quit complaining.

 

[TooManyGizmos]

Gizmo your right, post deleted. However I will state my opinion.

If you dont like it, buy a different light, plenty of options out there.

Thank you , Cosmo ...............

I have LF5XT, LF3XT, and plan to buy LF2XT. Their UI features are max'd out - no more memory available. If SOS and strobe were removed , maybe there would be enough memory for more usefull features to the average user.

I saw your Sig. line :
Its better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.
(bye the way- the tenth word should be *than*)

But if you could explain under what rational circumstances in every day life and normal use - where the SOS and Strobe could be used effectivley - then I might better understand. Especially on the STROBE function.

To carry one light with you which has these features is understandable if you're going out in the wilderness .... but we don't need this marketing gimmic getting in the way on so many lights that we want to buy.

For most users , a flashlight has a basic and primary purpose.

 

[Marduke]

There are many threads explaining the usefulness of strobe.

I personally use strobe quite often to draw attention to myself or location from across long distances or in crowds. I always carry at least one light with strobe.

 

[ackbar]

If you dont like it, buy a different light, plenty of options out there.

+1

I LIKE HAVING STROBE/SOS as an option. Better to have it and not need it.

and.. yes.. I'm talking to you, "serious" flashlight users out there who say that SOS/STROBE need to be banished from every light on the face of the planet. So that you won't accidently active it while you do your serious work. Because we all know serious users like to click their lights the multiple times it needs to cycle to the dreaded SOS/STROBE on most well designed lights. :p

 

[TooManyGizmos]

There are many threads explaining the usefulness of strobe.

I personally use strobe quite often to draw attention to myself or location from across long distances or in crowds. I always carry at least one light with strobe.

And I'll just bet that crowd really enjoyed your strobe light in their eyes while you drew attention to yourself so you could be found.

It would be more rational to use your cell phone.
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[ackbar]

And I'll just bet that crowd really enjoyed your strobe light in their eyes while you drew attention to yourself so you could be found.

hehe... I'm sure the DJ that was blinding THIS bartender with his UV/Strobe light sure did like it when I returned the favor with my LF5XT. On random strobe :D

 

[Marduke]

And I'll just bet that crowd really enjoyed your strobe light in their eyes while you drew attention to yourself so you could be found.

It would be more rational to use your cell phone.
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I'm not idiotic enough to shine a strobe into anyone's face.

Cellphone is not visible at a distance, or in a crowd of thousands of others all also yacking on their cellphones.

 

[TooManyGizmos]

Ackbar .......... "users out there who say that SOS/STROBE need to be banished from every light on the face of the planet."

That's not what we are saying.

It's just that STROBE and S.O.S. functions should be the *Exception* and not the rule.

It should be on *special* flashlight's as *specialty* purchases, if you feel you need it.

Known as an *option*
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[Marduke]

It's just that STROBE and S.O.S. functions should be the *Exception* and not the rule.

It should be on *special* flashlight's as *specialty* purchases, if you feel you need it.

Known as an *option*
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And exactly how is that different than how it is today. There are plenty of models with no sort of blinky modes. There are also plenty of models with well designed UI's where blinky modes are out of the way, practically impossible to accidentally access in normal use. There are also plenty of models which are poorly designed (IMO) which are the basic cheap 5-mode junk lights with poorly implemented memory functions which force you to cycle through blinky modes to reset to reset.

Three distinct groups of lights for you to choose from, ranging from "regular" or "speciality" as you call it. Exactly what are you complaining about again?? :shrug:

If you don't like poorly implemented UI's with strobe, quite buying from the cheap junk group.

 

[ackbar]

Ackbar .......... "users out there who say that SOS/STROBE need to be banished from every light on the face of the planet."

That's not what we are saying.

It's just that STROBE and S.O.S. functions should be the *Exception* and not the rule.

It should be on *special* flashlight's as *specialty* purchases, if you feel you need it.

Known as an *option*
.

hmm.. perhaps it is the 6 beers in me right that has me confused with another SOS/Strobe rant.

All I know is that most lights usually get SOS/Strobe right. With the liteflux you can put it where ever you want it.. disable it if you want.

I've felt that SOS/Strobe has been well thought out on fenix lights too. They are usually at the end of the cycle so that if you prefer a simple on/off light you'd most likely never see it.

Oh, btw, I'm intrested in hearing what you suggest would replace the SOS/Strobe on the lightflux line? I doubt that the code for those functions require very much space.

 

[300winmag]

Id like to have a 3 mode light , Hi - Med - Lo , but for gawds sake no strobe .

+1

It should be on *special* flashlight's as *specialty* purchases, if you feel you need it.

+1

:nana::nana::nana:

 

[GLOCK18]

I like my Jet III-Pro for 2 reasons, 1st it has a strobe 2nd you can convert the strobe to high beam or low.