TweakMDS
Enlightened
Whenever a new flashlight comes out, mode spacing is one of the first things I check, even before UI, clip, beam profile etc.
Many manufacturers are capable of building fantastic lights, but somehow mess up on mode spacing.
I was just wondering if I have very specific requirements for a light, or if they do keep getting it wrong?
Considering an EDC light (AA or single CR123a) with 3 or 4 modes and a max mode of roughly 200 lumens, which spacing would you want?
A few notes on this:
I'd love to hear what drives your options. For an EDC, I personally like to have two low modes (0.1 and 1 lumens), a useful medium for in full dark (20-30-ish) and of course a max mode. I guess closest is option 2 in the poll.
My reasoning for this is that a moonlight is best for indoor, full dark and maintaining night vision (or sleepiness). A 1 lumen mode is mode is just when you need a bit more light and distinguish colors. A 25 lumen mode is great for walking the dog on a leash, lighting a path and making sure you don't step on/in anything or working on a computer for example and the max mode is to get some distance or light up dark areas when it's not fully dark otherwise.
Many manufacturers are capable of building fantastic lights, but somehow mess up on mode spacing.
I was just wondering if I have very specific requirements for a light, or if they do keep getting it wrong?
Considering an EDC light (AA or single CR123a) with 3 or 4 modes and a max mode of roughly 200 lumens, which spacing would you want?
A few notes on this:
- Assume the lumens vs runtime is linear and low modes are 100% efficient: if the 200 lumens mode has a 1 hour runtime, then 1 lumen has a 200 hour runtime, and everything in between.
- Please disregard the UI or coming on in moonlight/low/high/mode memory for this.
- In the poll options, 0.1 is moonlight, and I picked some arbitrary values for moonlight, low and medium modes. Available modes are 0.1, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 200 with this, there are still 80 useful options to pick, and the poll only supports 10. The visual difference between 30 or 50, or 75 and 100 is not very big so please pick what's closest or comment on other options.
I'd love to hear what drives your options. For an EDC, I personally like to have two low modes (0.1 and 1 lumens), a useful medium for in full dark (20-30-ish) and of course a max mode. I guess closest is option 2 in the poll.
My reasoning for this is that a moonlight is best for indoor, full dark and maintaining night vision (or sleepiness). A 1 lumen mode is mode is just when you need a bit more light and distinguish colors. A 25 lumen mode is great for walking the dog on a leash, lighting a path and making sure you don't step on/in anything or working on a computer for example and the max mode is to get some distance or light up dark areas when it's not fully dark otherwise.