^ Don’t worry, I do all communication with Barry as suggestions with the final decision for Sofirn. Which is good because I think they have some experienced engineers who have good ideas too.
I do emphasize that we at BLF too can have pretty good ideas every now and then
Barry’s remark that he prefers simple may just as well be his honest opinion instead of grumpiness.
Thanks djozz. I thought I’d bring it up to help clarify the expectations for the rest of the members in this thread, too.
And BLF definitely comes up with a lot of good ideas.
As another thought on the magnet question, I’d like to try pulling the spring out of my E01 (not sure if it’s soldered or just pressed in) and dropping a magnet underneath it to see if it is strong enough to attach the light to something through the aluminum, and make sure it doesn’t interfere with the spring compression.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any neodymium magnets on hand. Anybody else want to try?
I honestly also think the tailcap is not really important for a 6 dollar light, but because we may have the opportunity to take part in the design of it I think it is fun and worthwile hobbytime to spend a lot of thinking time on it and see if we can do it better than all other manufacturers who also do not take the time to think long about the tailcap of their 6 dollar lights.
And the best fun is if our tailcap design makes its way in other manufacturer’s designs
trithole, magnethole and tailstanding do not add costs and do not affect robustness, more than 1 mode requires a chip component on the driver which adds cost and is an extra component that can fail.
Extra cost+ extra point of failure places extra modes outside the scope of this light in my opinion. The goal is to have an extremely durable and reliable light, like the Fenix E01, but with a superior Yuji 5mm LED.
This is coming from someone who generally loves having multiple modes on a light.
The most important tail feature to me is that it tailstands. There’s really no reason to make a light not tailstand. Anyone who has ever experienced a power outage knows just how handy tailstanding can be.
On that note, I want to mention an unintentional “feature” of the E01, the head is the perfect size to use a lip balm cap as a diffuser. I’d love to be able to do the same with this light.
True. No need to overcomplicate. An extremely durable and reliable light is what we are trying to get here, as I understand.
If Sofirn would be interested they can launch later/same time another version/model with 2-3 modes.
KISS is definitely a good idea
May be crazy but my favorite UI is tighten to turn off. To me it is more secure. Two of my AAAs have this and great for one-handed operation. It may be more expensive as it is on pricier lights.
Very excited about this project.
The only light I’m familiar with to have tighten off is the Mag Solitaire, so I’m not too familiar with the differing mechanisms used in such twisties, but the Mag has extra parts twist on switches don’t have. Twist on switches are much simpler and reliable.
I don’t want to speak for other users, but I don’t want to see this design deriving too far from the tried and true Arc AAA, Fenix E0/E01, Peak Matterhorn, etc.