The hardware is pretty good, by everything I can see.
The UI is a lobotomised version of the Q8’s, but it has the important stuff:
— press’n’hold for moonlight/lowest
— ramp up/down as expected
— 2click for turbo/brightest
Multiclicks for lockout, “breathing” switch button, blah blah blah, stuff I never use anyway.
There’s probably stepped mode, in fact I’m sure there is, but I never used it other than to see if it existed.
Throwy and CW like the Sofirn Q8, but usb chargeable so I don’t have to drag out a 4-bay charger every time it needs a top-off.
Now, for The Muggle™ it’s perfect. No one’s gonna be itchin’ for “lightning mode”. And no one is gonna wanna hafta buy a 4-bay charger for his/her new light.
I can’t remember the last time I looked at a light’s instruction manual (my electron-microscope is in the shop anyway, so I can’t read the molecule-sized print), and with my BLF Q8 (which I prefer anyway as warmer and floodier), I just instinctively used it right off.
So? DC7.
Stuff it with batteries, plug in, wait, done.
Top off? Plug in, wait, done. End of story.
As much as I like my Q8s, it’s a pain in the ass to open it up, unpack one of my chargers (unlike most, I keep them nicely boxed and tucked away ‘til I need one), and then go to it. And then tickle the f’n O-ring every quarter-turn so that tightening it doesn’t lop off a “tongue” of errant O-ring. And then pack up the ol’ Opus again.