Its too bad some of these lights are getting little complicated for the everyday wife/younger person/regular weekend camper.
I can see them remembering the functionality if they use it for a long time and if this is the only light they have, to avoid muscle memory confusion.
IMO so many of these newer flashlights arent made for the everyday person due to UI,
I have the Acebeam H10, and it is as simple as it gets, but it is not a cheap headlight though: press and hold to ON/OFF and it will turn ON in the last used mode (from 5 modes: ML-L-M-H-T). No blinkies, nothing to get in the way.
This headlight being reviewed here is not complicated, but I do understand what you mean. However, there are always other options to fit one’s necessity and “capability” to operate the light
Yeah, the UI can be a little difficult for one person to describe and another to understand. It basically has 3 mode groups: the “Medium & High” that a single click enters, the “Stepped Ramping” which is entered from EITHER the first mode group’s Medium or High, and then the blinky modes entered by a quick Double-click at anytime. From the “Stepped Ramping” mode group, one click brings you back to the first mode group (whichever level you were in prior to entering mode group 2), and then another click to go OFF.
Just filed a pebbled TIR - the upper lateral edges - and it fits perfectly!
It completely eliminates the hotspot tint shift that the headlamp had originally!
Thanks for the tips on this!
Sounds like a decent enough light, but I agree, what an absolutely hideous UI.
I’d look into completely stripping the guts from it, using a micro powerbank charging board to keep internal charging, then replace the driver with something decent. If the switch is momentary, maybe pilfer the driver from an e-switch light.
And as long as it wouldn’t mung anything else, bore out the emitter area to fit a real 20mm TIR, vs having to shave down every one I’d want to try/use.
I don’t understand why the UI is so hideous! I mean, do you always need instant access to every possible output? This isn’t a light I would want coming on with a very low level. The average “muggle” can give it one click, have a nice usable output, then click again to turn off.
It has a very simple and logical interface. Its charger is assembled at 4057, why and for what to change it?
Yes, he has a fet-driver. Simple and reliable. He does his job well. But if you can make for it an inexpensive driver with stabilization, minimum leakage currents and with a programmable interface, then we will be very happy. Yes, a cool driver for a flashlight for ten bucks
Who said anything about “instant access to every possible mode”?
I don’t understand why a headlamp would need strobe, beacon(!), other blinkies. Long-clicks, double-clicks, short-clicks, click-from-on, click-from-off, click-from-strobe… good God, talk about convoluted! It’s like 30 people designed the UI, each with his own unique idea of what it “should be like”.
Have either steps or ramping, and just have the damned thing remember its last-used mode. Simple on/off with a click, and whatever machinations to increase/decrease brightness. That’s a UI for a headlamp.
Anyone who puts blinkies into a headlamp should be dragged into an alley and beaten with sticks.