koziy
Newly Enlightened
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Playing off the other thread, but is there any feature or features in a flashlight that just makes you turn up your nose and say "no," despite the flashlight perhaps being technically good in other ways?
For me, it's having a long button press to turn it on or off, especially if it's possible to accomplish either on or off with a short click, but the other operation requires a long click. The trend in the industry is to accomplish on/off with a short click, and reserve the double click and long press to for mode changes, so only a minority of flashlights are using a long press for on/off. For me, that means that either a) I'm going to struggle to turn on a flashlight in the heat of the moment if I forget which type it is, or b) if I don't pay close attention, I'm going to accidentally put a flashlight into my pocket on moonlight mode, thinking that it's off. What backwards engineer thought it would be a good idea to make people wait for light anyway?
The other thing I'm finding myself less and less enthused by is having a mode memory with no way to bypass it that could accidentally result in blindingly bright light when not desired, or a flashlight that lacks mode memory not starting in a useful mode. As an example of the latter issue, the BLF A6 firmware is great for an EDC flashlight, but when you put it into a thrower like the C8, all you get is a purpose-built long range flashlight that isn't able to accomplish its purpose with the most efficiency.
For me, it's having a long button press to turn it on or off, especially if it's possible to accomplish either on or off with a short click, but the other operation requires a long click. The trend in the industry is to accomplish on/off with a short click, and reserve the double click and long press to for mode changes, so only a minority of flashlights are using a long press for on/off. For me, that means that either a) I'm going to struggle to turn on a flashlight in the heat of the moment if I forget which type it is, or b) if I don't pay close attention, I'm going to accidentally put a flashlight into my pocket on moonlight mode, thinking that it's off. What backwards engineer thought it would be a good idea to make people wait for light anyway?
The other thing I'm finding myself less and less enthused by is having a mode memory with no way to bypass it that could accidentally result in blindingly bright light when not desired, or a flashlight that lacks mode memory not starting in a useful mode. As an example of the latter issue, the BLF A6 firmware is great for an EDC flashlight, but when you put it into a thrower like the C8, all you get is a purpose-built long range flashlight that isn't able to accomplish its purpose with the most efficiency.
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