snowlover91
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- Nov 25, 2008
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Alright so I had a chance to try the new UI. I have to say I'm impressed and it works exactly as described. I set mine up with 1 click being 2.8 lumens, .28. The press/hold I used 79 and 18 lumens. A double quick gives me 352 and 144 lumens. This way a single click always gives me low, I can press and hold to cycle to Medium then high. A double click from off gives me high (my least used mode) and I have quick access to the two most used modes, low and high. Here are a few observations:
1. With medium as my press/hold, the light always briefly starts at the L1 setting and bumps up quickly to the medium setting. This can be a bit confusing at first but I adjusted to it fairly quickly.
2. When entering the programming mode you have to be sure that the H2, M2 or L2 level is selected before trying to program it. Here's an example since it's pretty hard to describe. I was trying to set the H2 level to a L2 level instead but when I tried to enter the programming mode it kept trying to set my H1 level instead of H2. What I found out is that you have to turn the light on and select the H2 mode first, then the light off, then back on and your light will be on H2 now and can be programmed. It seems like the mode configuration is based on whatever mode that level was last turned off at. If L1/M1/H1 then it will only program those respective modes. I hope this makes sense, it's a little hard to explain.
3. The easiest way for me to tell what lumen mode I was in is to go all the way up (or down works too) to the highest level and then keep triple clicking while looking at ZL's lumen scale to tell which brightness level I'm on.
Those are just a few main observations I came across with the UI, I love that I now have the G5 mode and then can customize G6 and G7 to whatever mode order/brightness level I want and then quickly access any of the three groups with 5, 6 or 7 clicks from off. It's now like having a brand new light and once they update their other models with this I plan to upgrade my other lights also.
1. With medium as my press/hold, the light always briefly starts at the L1 setting and bumps up quickly to the medium setting. This can be a bit confusing at first but I adjusted to it fairly quickly.
2. When entering the programming mode you have to be sure that the H2, M2 or L2 level is selected before trying to program it. Here's an example since it's pretty hard to describe. I was trying to set the H2 level to a L2 level instead but when I tried to enter the programming mode it kept trying to set my H1 level instead of H2. What I found out is that you have to turn the light on and select the H2 mode first, then the light off, then back on and your light will be on H2 now and can be programmed. It seems like the mode configuration is based on whatever mode that level was last turned off at. If L1/M1/H1 then it will only program those respective modes. I hope this makes sense, it's a little hard to explain.
3. The easiest way for me to tell what lumen mode I was in is to go all the way up (or down works too) to the highest level and then keep triple clicking while looking at ZL's lumen scale to tell which brightness level I'm on.
Those are just a few main observations I came across with the UI, I love that I now have the G5 mode and then can customize G6 and G7 to whatever mode order/brightness level I want and then quickly access any of the three groups with 5, 6 or 7 clicks from off. It's now like having a brand new light and once they update their other models with this I plan to upgrade my other lights also.
