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Make the clip the switch. Press it to close the cxt.

Or when unclipped, the cxt is complete; when clipped, the pocket prevents
Activation.

Twist, to disengage battery. Twist in the other direction, to activate.

Or maybe I am missing the point.

Already exists, I had one many years ago. I had one where it was similar to this in the respect you used the clip, but it switched it on whilst being held (and only whilst being held)

Interesting idea. Always nice to see creative thoughts on how to do things differently. Your idea, as apposed to the four click lockout, or the quarter of a turn of the tail cap to manually lockout. The later two ideas are really good, because the user gets to decide exactly when the light gets turned on. And, which brightness level is used at turn on (memory mode).

One scenario: What if the user is not ready for the light to be turned on, they just want to grab the flashlight in hand to be prepared in case they might need to use it.

Just my humble thoughts. I still have a lot to learn about torches, so my thinking might be way off… Anyways, the world keeps turning due to creative minds. Keep up the great work. And, “bright” ideas (pun intended).

Agreed.
Ok, as I see it from the vids, the light is ALWAYS on unless there is something breaking the contact between body and clip - correct?
So, when you are not using it, something will have to be between the clip and the body, at all times or the light will be on. So you can’t just ‘put it down’ you still have to remember to switch it off, just not with the clicky - a piece of plastic or something to hand wedged between the clip and body.

Before someone says ‘well switch it off with the clicky’ no lol! - the idea of this light is that it is always on and ready to use because people forget to switch it off in the first place, if you are then going to switch it off anyway with the clicky it negates the entire idea.
Please correct me if I’m wrong on this lol maybe I have this whole thing wrong! :person_facepalming:

Swabs, if the user isn’t ready for the light to be turned on they can switch it off with the tail clicky and back on with the tail clicky when they want it.

G0OSE, I looked into making a “touch” light like you’re describing a while back. I think it’s possible although I don’t know much about the technology. But it’d be cool for sure! The biggest downside to it would be wet or gloved hands, but I think some people would be willing to make the tradeoff (or you could have a switch that manually turns the light on or off overriding the touch portion). Vinh with Skylumen had a light called the Tange (version 1) with a capacitive switch but it wasn’t the whole light. Energizer also has a “Touch Tech LED Flashlight” but it’s more of a squeeze switch.

As for the ClipSwitch, the clicky shuts the light off (another design could use a twisty). No need to put something between the clip and the body when you set it down or put it in your pocket. The point is that as long as the light is on when you clip it to something (your pocket, a pocket organizer, a bag, etc.) it will come back on automatically when you unclip it. OR you could use it like a normal flashlight (turning it on and off with the clicky tailcap) and the clip switch would simply prevent you from draining the batteries if you accidentally forgot to shut it off before clipping it to your pocket, organizer, etc.

I’m interested and here is a link that I hope will help you.

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Interested but no idea what to say lol but let’s hope the lumen tube is on my side lol

Interested.

Not only is good for medical purposes/people…

Think on a car mechanic who has the flashlight in the pocket and is constantly taking out the flashlight of the pocket, turning it on, pointing to the work area and, when done, reverse process…

This idea simplifies and makes things fast and easy.

I want to test one of those microstrem usb!!!

Each time I think more about the clipswitch, it makes me thing how no one did it before!…

I was thinking of other more reliable ways to activate a switch, and I thought of laptops and flip-phones that have magnetic sensors that turn the screen on/off when you open or close them. It may be possible to achieve the same with a clip that is magnetized. I did a bit more reading, and mechanical reed switches were originally used in older laptops and flip-phones, and as technology advanced they used Hall sensors, and now MR sensors. This article explains it better:

I’m no engineer and I don’t know the feasibility of this approach, but I thought it was interesting enough to mention.

Sweet! I can use this with my non-metal shirts. Did you look into patenting?

I like it! I didn’t realize at first that you could still turn off the light with the switch when it was out of your pocket. Cool idea.

Interesting work. I, like a previous poster, had the kind that you pressed the clip for light to work. Some Doctors used these little lights.

So from watching the disadvantages video, I wonder if it would be difficult to add a bypass to it. The tail would need to be modded to change the electrical path, but I am not sure how difficult it would be for this host. There can be two paths, one going through the pocket clip, and another that uses the host, but I assume that the pocket clip is already using the host path.

Interesting ideas. I’d love to brainstorm this stuff some more. Even minor improvements to the clip/body design (such as more contact surface area, debris sweeping grooves, etc.) and contact materials (such as plating or not using dissimilar metals) could go a long way.

As a flashlight enthusiast my favorite carry light is the Eagtac D3A running a 14500 and I used to run a D25a. I like the clip switch feature enough that I started carrying my final prototype Microstream in place of those.

I’m sure that if enough people put their heads together we could have some skookum clip switched lights.

Lick, do you mean make a bypass so that the light can come on without the clip? Or a bypass in the sense that the clip becomes a relay contact and doesn’t carry the full current?

good work…my number one gripe with an edc is the light coming on in my pocket. which is why the only one i have is the jet mini-1.

Will it be possible to add a SMD LED on any part lf the clip (the internal part… The part facing the flashlight body…… Or other location) to show when the bypass option is activated/deactivated??

Why is it that we’d want a bypass option rather than just making the contact/switch design of the clip ultra reliable?

I’m interested. I’d love to test one out.

Interesting I don’t usually use clips except for my EDC pocket knife. Would be interesting to test this out. I think clipping a knife and a flashlight would require more pockets? Or else they’d be scuffed up next to each other needlessly.