1. Can you explain the difference between regular mode memory and hybrid mode memory and the advantage over one or the other? I have a Maratac light with a mode memory that remembers the mode you were on if you turn it off for 5 seconds-- I'm guessing regular mode memory is like this? How is the hybrid different?
Let's use a Wasp setup for H/M/L/D as our example. High is the first level, Medium is second, and so on.
Regular memory remembers the last level you used. So if you turn the light off at medium it will come back on at medium. The next level will be L, then D, then H, etc... Just like a clock, regular memory requires you to cycle through all the modes in order to get back to the beginning.
Hybrid memory also remembers the last level. So if you turn the light off at medium it will come back on at medium, just like regular memory. However, the next level will be high, not low. The same goes for any level in the cycle, the next will always be high (or whatever your first level is).
The advantage to hybrid is that you are never more than one mode away from your first setting. This is helpful when you don't want to cycle through all the levels.
With no memory, the light always comes back on at the first level, is our case this is high. You must either cycle through all the levels or turn the light off and on again to get back to the first level, high.
Mode cycling means lightly pressing the switch while the light is on (without clicking it) to get to the next mode right?
Mode/level cycling simple mean changing from one level to another. It is the same regardless of what memory option you have set. A quick soft-press will move the light through the various levels (e.g. H->M->L). The method you are describing (soft-press while light is on) is actually a reverse clicky. Oveready lights use a forward clicky. A series of soft-press from the "off" state is how you change levels. Once you find the level you desire, you push all the way in to "lock" the switch on.
So for example if I have a High/Medium/Low and I turn it off in Medium mode, then I turn it back on I have Medium mode, then if I cycle it once it will go back to High mode (essentially "skipping" Low)?
This is exactly how hybrid memory works. Sounds like you understand it better than you think.
Here's a video showing hybrid memory in action. (Ignore the Russian, just read the captions).
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