Swedpat
Flashlight Enthusiast
First of all: happy new year 2017!
What I want to talk about is when the mode spacing with lights is not very big, like 2 times and it has mode memory. For example: imagine a light with 50, 100 and 200 lumen. Depending on the circumstances and outer conditions I can't always really know when I turn on the light if it's 50 or 100lm. In the same way I can't always be sure if it's 100 or 200lm. Usually I can decide if it's 50 or 200lm, however.
I have experienced with Fenix HP05 headlamp when I turn it on at the highest mode of 350lm. It has a stepdown to the next level below of 150lm after a few minutes. After a while I want to cycle to lower the output to the 50lm level and then discover that it instead increases to the 350lm mode. I didn't notice the stepdown though it's instant. I would definitely notice it if I held the lamp still but when I walk around and move my head in the forest it's enough that I miss it. And it happened twice on the same walk.
Another time I used Fenix LD12 2017 edt. at the 70lm level. Or thought I did: when I wanted to go to highest 150lm mode it went to lowest mode. The mode button is easily touched accidently and I have hard to always really be sure if the brightness is 70 or 150lm. I didn't notice that I accidentally jumped up to 150lm level.
This is another proof that the eyes ability to determine brightness is limited and that two times difference is pretty subtle.
Therefore I like LD09 better: it always starts at low(the predecessor at mid mode) and I can be sure that two fast press at the switch turns on the mid mode. I have tried it many times now and it never fails. But the mode memory of LD12 combined with the pretty tight brightness levels makes me regularly cycle through the levels to be really sure I get the right mode and that I didn't earlier accidentally turn on a higher mode than I intended to use. And with this situation the mode memory looses its function.
Am I alone with this problem?
What I want to talk about is when the mode spacing with lights is not very big, like 2 times and it has mode memory. For example: imagine a light with 50, 100 and 200 lumen. Depending on the circumstances and outer conditions I can't always really know when I turn on the light if it's 50 or 100lm. In the same way I can't always be sure if it's 100 or 200lm. Usually I can decide if it's 50 or 200lm, however.
I have experienced with Fenix HP05 headlamp when I turn it on at the highest mode of 350lm. It has a stepdown to the next level below of 150lm after a few minutes. After a while I want to cycle to lower the output to the 50lm level and then discover that it instead increases to the 350lm mode. I didn't notice the stepdown though it's instant. I would definitely notice it if I held the lamp still but when I walk around and move my head in the forest it's enough that I miss it. And it happened twice on the same walk.
Another time I used Fenix LD12 2017 edt. at the 70lm level. Or thought I did: when I wanted to go to highest 150lm mode it went to lowest mode. The mode button is easily touched accidently and I have hard to always really be sure if the brightness is 70 or 150lm. I didn't notice that I accidentally jumped up to 150lm level.
This is another proof that the eyes ability to determine brightness is limited and that two times difference is pretty subtle.
Therefore I like LD09 better: it always starts at low(the predecessor at mid mode) and I can be sure that two fast press at the switch turns on the mid mode. I have tried it many times now and it never fails. But the mode memory of LD12 combined with the pretty tight brightness levels makes me regularly cycle through the levels to be really sure I get the right mode and that I didn't earlier accidentally turn on a higher mode than I intended to use. And with this situation the mode memory looses its function.
Am I alone with this problem?
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