Since the UI is more tailored as gift option and ease of use for all ages, they’ve included OFF as part of the main cycle and this requires no training for anyone to use. That’s the reason I’m interested in this for my child (who struggled with turning the UT01 off as I said earlier) and my grandma personally. And if you want to turn it off right away, you can still hold 0.3 seconds to turn off on any mode.
Before I first tried it, I thought having Off as part of the cycle was strange but this is the same method on my Nitecore NU20 headlamp and it’s very usable since there are so few modes (and even easier to use than the Nitecore TIP). The main differences are 1.) the hidden turbo is done on the nitecore by holding the button down and 2.) they call the modes [low, mid, high, turbo] instead of the [moonlight, low, medium, high] on the Sofirn. So if turbo is hidden with a double click it would make more sense to call the modes [moonlight, low, high, turbo] but it’s just semantics.
Ideally, there should be a way to take out the OFF mode within the cycle as in a separate mode grouping but I’m not sure if they can or want to do that.
I’m also curious why they decided to leave turbo out of the cycle. I understand the main reason is to prevent overheating and that should remain a priority for this format, but the SP10A had a 3 minute stepdown so I wonder if there’s another reason for the change.