Digital Lumamax

[Galiphrey]

Dumb question here: Is there anything digital about a "Digital Lumamax" ? Or is it just a name? For me, to be called "digital," it means there should be at least one logic gate involved. Is there? Just curious.

 

[Gunner12]

I think part of it refers to the driver in the light. Aside from that I don't know.

 

[zipplet]

I'd only refer to a light as "digital" if it included some kind of microcontroller otherwise I consider it marketing.

As far as I know it is pure marketing. The only electronics in a light like the L1 is the driver circuit, which is either buck/boost/both (someone step in and fill the blank? ) and it's pretty simple.

Then ofcourse you have a light like the U2 which could deserve the "digital" label.

 

[tebore]

Don't for the the LED which a solid state emitter of light.
It's like a computer chip so it's kinda digital.

 

[Galiphrey]

Ha. OK. Well, at least you didn't go into how the switch has discrete states. Thanks for the replies. I do agree that it should probably have a microprocessor to be truely called "digital." My first thought was that there are digital circuits that don't involve micros, so that's why I said "at least one gate." But a gate could be just a couple transistors.... and so then "digital" comes to mean just anything that has discrete states, which even a "analog" circuit may have. Slippery slope. That's when I became afraid that you'd bring up the switch. hahahah