How do you set moonlight level on the Manker E02?
…i think i chucked the manual… :person_facepalming:
Boy, do you guys really live in complete darkness? Ever heard of nightlights? 
I have to admit our kids are grown and gone but even when they were little they always wanted at least a nightlight on in their bedroom and another in the hallway to navigate to the bathroom. Heck, we even had one on in the bathroom!
I guess I’m different but moon mode is a mode I never use. I could never live in a completely dark home at night. If a low mode on a light would bother my wife or kids, the toilet flushing sure would. 
Like you, I dont like sublumen modes that come on first if the UI is clicky, or twisty.
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I dont like, and dont use nightlights.
I also dont turn on the electric lights in the bedroom, nor the bathroom when I wake in the dark to P, or when I walk through the house to go to bed.
And I dont flush P in the middle of the night.
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Using nightlights and or electric house lights, would totally wreck several of my justifications for carrying, and buying, flashlights.
This is not necessarily a Need, its more of a Want… of course some will claim they are Prepping for Disaster… any justification will do… some of us even use flashlights as jewelry… 
LOL!
I don’t have a meter, so I can’t answer actual light level questions.
The 8 days+ on an AAA eneloop for the Manker E01. So I am starting the test again (inspired by this thread) with a “new” alkileak. 800mAhr eneloop gives 8 days, a alkileak should give at least 10 days. I’ll track pictures of the light on a given setting and measure the battery daily so see what I get. Taking a picture when it is dark, I’ll shoot for 8pm, or 6 hours after I start the test.
Battery is a duracell expiration date 2025. I don’t have any “new” batteries, as I don’t buy alkileaks. A year or two ago I scrounged a boatload, this is one of those.
Time = 0 voltage unloaded 1.585V, current into light is 5mA. A quick web check says AAA should have 1000mAhr at 10mA current, so I’m guessing this will be a bit more than that.
The E01 is regulated on medium and high modes, but not on low (or moonlight) mode. Current goes down as the battery voltage drops, which helps to extend the light output.
Hope you don’t mind the thread drift, I’ll take it elsewhere if you like . . . :person_facepalming:
I’ll just post results once when I’m done to not drift too much.
Currently I see me using more the RRT01 I got from CRX (than the first I bought), as it has the tritium vial in the back. I put it next to my bed and whenever I wake in the middle of the night I always see where it is, instead of searching with my hands in the dark
The other one I have, I put a piece of GITD tape and before I go to bed I light it up well. It lasts all night, but still the tritium is a better locator
About the tint, I also prefer a NW or WW (no High CRI needed, so far) instead of the original one of the RRT01 (CW XML2).
About the Sofirn C01 3200K, I see me doing that as well at bedtime, but I also notice that it is “too much” brightness to use if there is anyone more at home/bedroom.
Nice to see so many different preferences and lights to serve them
Personally I find those sub-lumen, firefly, moonlight modes totally unusable. I just dont have use for them, 5 lumens is bare minimum, 10 lumens is what I consider good starting point.
I can wake up my wife ceiling bouncing 10 lumens, shower and get ready for work, and make a fancy breakfast. Preferably not in that order.
Explain a fancy breakfast?
Steak , eggs , pancakes and hasbrowns .
Thanks.
Sweet. I love breakfast but usually eat it at night. Nightfast?
I have programmed my Zebralight H53Fc headlamp to have the lowest output options:
Click: 0.01 / 0.06
Doubleclick: 0.26 / 1.0
Hold: 3.4 / 10
I do a lot of photography at night, and use the headlamp for setting up my equipment, but also when walking around. I rarely need the two highest levels.
Low level lighting also allows me to use it without ruining other people’s shots, and dark adaptation.
I have multiple lights with Tritium vials as well as the lighted switch of my Q8 that serves as a “nightlight”. My son has a nightlight on in his room and there’s one in the bathroom as well. No real reason for me to use a flashlight at all unless I’m checking out a noise or the dog barking. I Do try not to wake up anybody, but it’s a priority thing.
And not flushing the toilet at night is unacceptable. Gross even. And if I didn’t feel that way I’d probably have to sleep outside with the dog, my wife is a nurse and , well, 5’ tall left handed nurses can be quite demonstrative… this one can be anyway! She’s from Mississippi, which may not mean much to some but other’s will certainly understand… way deep South small town Mississippi… she’s been referred to as a Spitfire on more than one occasion. All this to say I’d much rather wake her up flushing the toilet than face what would almost certainly happen if I didn’t. And for what it’s worth, if/when SHE needs a flashlight in the middle of the night she has no qualms at all cranking a 2D Maglite fitted with an MT-G2 to full power. No shielding the reflector from her, no way… it is what it is. 
LOL, My wife just flips a switch.
Uh, I get it and okay. No nightlights? No toilet flushing? Wow! Maybe you don’t have or ever had little kids!
Reasons to justify us having so many flashlights and that’s cool. I was just wondering why so many here state time after time that they want sublumen modes for trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night and that’s why I asked if folks keep their houses that dark after bedtime?
Whatever you want to do with your lights is your business. I just can’t imagine that so many here live in such dark houses and especially with children! Do they have flashlights that you give them with a sublumen mode to get them to the bathroom in your completely dark houses?
That’s a long time, thanks for the test.