Your favorite UI for a 3 stage light

[Beacon of Light]

I just want to see if I am in the minority, but to me it makes sense to either have memory to remember last setting or Low/Medium/High. End of discussion.

I will add that the Memory selection might throw off the results. I wanted to give the option, but I am hoping Low/Medium/High votes won't be lost to Memory votes.

 

[Legend]

I just want to see if I am in the minority, but to me it makes sense to either have memory to remember last setting or Low/Medium/High. End of discussion.

I prefer low/medium/high. You might want to revise that last sentence. :nana:

 

[Flying Turtle]

Give me low first or last setting memory, too. I kind of think this will be the majority position.

Geoff

 

[Beacon of Light]

Haha, I know but Patriot in the Maratac part 2 thread was trying to tell me Medium/Low/High was the most popular UI choice across the board. I am hoping he sees the results of this as the "people have spoken"

 

[Beacon of Light]

Give me low first or last setting memory, too. I kind of think this will be the majority position.

Geoff

I think you are correct Flying Turtle. I hope Patriot realizes this after this poll is complete. I have it open for 30 days, but I doubt it will need to run that long to get the obvious results.

 

[CaNo]

If it were up to me it would be High/ Low/ Strobe.

 

[Beacon of Light]

Cano you can do that with a Jetbeam Jet I-Pro I.B.S to define each model.

 

[liquidsix]

I just can't vote for any multi-click UIs... they're all horrible. though I suppose if I have to then I'd pick Memory, then it doesn't matter what order it comes in.

 

[Toaster]

I don't see a choice for selector ring in the poll

 

[Legend]

I don't see a choice for selector ring in the poll

Unfortunately, it's almost nonexistent. That would get most votes imagine.
Too bad flashlight designers are ignoring this demand. :duh2:

 

[jankj]

I prefer low-med-high.

 

[FrogmanM]

I prefer the GDuP UI

-Mayo

 

[Patriot]

Beacon of Light
I know but Patriot in the Maratac part 2 thread was trying to tell me Medium/Low/High was the most popular UI choice across the board. I am hoping he sees the results of this as the "people have spoken"

I think you are correct Flying Turtle. I hope Patriot realizes this after this poll is complete. I have it open for 30 days, but I doubt it will need to run that long to get the obvious results.

Vote made.

btw Beacon if you think I'm in opposition to you in some way, I'm not...lol. I only mention this because it seems like you're a bit eager about making sure of what I realize about things. Hopefully nothing I've stated in the other thread has been taken as being against you. I was really hoping that you or one of the others would start a vote tread, so thanks for doing so.

 

[gbelleh]

It depends on the purpose and output capability of the light.

I prefer med/low/high on the Maratac AAA, but low/med/high on other lights that have a much brighter medium and high. The Maratac's medium is perfect for most tasks I use it for. I like programmable lights, then you can set it up however you want.

 

[Beacon of Light]

Not taking things personally at all. You mentioned you preferred medium/low/high and for some people that would be ideal. I was just trying to find out if the consensus of people here who have varied uses for flashlights, that if they also preferred medium/low/high.

I am still curious and maybe CC may address why they chose medium/low/high for the Maratec. I do know the lights I have that start out with medium that I own or have no memory I don't use as much. The Connexion original is weird as it cycles oddly and it seems like takes quite a while for the memory to reset like over a minute. Very frustrating UI, but the light is great with great runtime.

Vote made.

btw Beacon if you think I'm in opposition to you in some way, I'm not...lol. I only mention this because it seems like you're a bit eager about making sure of what I realize about things. Hopefully nothing I've stated in the other thread has been taken as being against you. I was really hoping that you or one of the others would start a vote tread, so thanks for doing so.

 

[Beacon of Light]

I will say the Quark AA has very usable low and medium modes that may or may not be the most used modes for a bunch of people but I am certainly glad the first mode that starts is the moon mode and I rarely venture out of that mode as the Quark has become my dedicated reading light, which is weird as it's like owning a Ferrari just to drive around the block to the convenience store to get a pack of gum.

 

[Patriot]

Not taking things personally at all. You mentioned you preferred medium/low/high and for some people that would be ideal. I was just trying to find out if the consensus of people here who have varied uses for flashlights, that if they also preferred medium/low/high.

Good deal, glad to hear that. :thumbsup:

It does appear to be very decisive for low, med, high, so far.

 

[sabre7]

For lights with a really low low like the Maratac, it only makes sense to start in the low mode to preserve low light situations and for greater runtime.

 

[mossyoak]

the ra twisty UI...

 

[Beacon of Light]

+1 I would think the manufacturers would have thought this was as well.

For lights with a really low low like the Maratac, it only makes sense to start in the low mode to preserve low light situations and for greater runtime.