HaikeLite Preview for MINI Triple-XHP70 prototypes--Discussion thread

Well i personally agree with all the choices you made. Small, 4x18650, ultra bright, shortcut to moonlight and turbo.

Why do you need to be able to one click to turbo? Just double click?

For normal uses 2000 lumens is what you would need. I wouldnt want to be flashed with 8000 lumens accidently.

I prefer double clicks for turbo so you dont accidentally put on turbo in bed :stuck_out_tongue:

double click turbo!

I prefer double click turbo as well. I’m only interested in single click turbo (or maximum) if that light output can be maintained continuously without stepping down/light getting too hot to handle.

Double click for turbo too

I’d be your Guinea Pig. Wow ! Any hosts going to be available?

Ditto.

Double click for “extra” brightness always made sense to me.

A selectable UI may be interesting. One UI with and another UI without single click turbo. More lights these days have selectable UI. Maybe interesting for HaikeLite in the near future?

I agree with that :wink:

Double click for turbo is good with me. I like to have access to moonlight and turbo from off so how it is now is fine.

I feel The UI is getting better with single click ON, single click OFF being a priority.

But As I've been doing for a couple years, now, I prefer single click to go to next mode, press&hold for previous mode. If you lock in to a mode for a minimum time, then the next single click turns the light OFF. So, you get single click ON and OFF, plus single click to go to next mode - this is what I prefer, as I've implemented and been using in e-switch firmware for a couple years now, migrated into Narsil. A double click or press&hold from OFF could go to turbo, but the UI is more consistent using press&hold from OFF to go to turbo, because it's the previous mode from OFF - it's consistent. Double clicks will interfere with fast single clicks, so you have to be careful with combining double click and single click operations.

This is all based on the original "Werner UI", but I added the twist of timing out a "lock in", so you can easily turn the light OFF via a single click from any mode.

So to summarize:

  • From OFF, single click to lowest mode (moon), press&hold to turbo
  • From ON state, single click to next mode, unless you are locked in to a mode, then single click turns the light OFF
  • From ON state, press&hold goes to previous mode

So how does contact boards looks like? Youve said that youll show them.

I suppose that makes sense for this “mini” light. Will you have a full size version? Add more XHP70’s, bump up the lumens to 15-20 thousand, although more is always appreciated.

I guess I didn’t make myself clear. All I’m asking is for turbo to be added to the memorized mode. So when that I turn it off on turbo, I can simply turn it on in turbo with s single click.
I still want the double click to turbo in the UI. So when it’s off, or if I’m a lower mode, double click to turbo!
Generally it would still be the same, if you want to turn in in high mode the next time u want the light on, just turn it off on high.

Two things I would like to know:

1) What is the parasitic drain value?
2) How repairable/mod-able is the light? Can you disassemble everything without tools? No glued bezel or other components?

From the prototype you can see the battery configuration .The bronze springs is not good enough. Lower-internal resistance components are required.

Custom-made springs and copper rings will come back tomorrow.
Parasitic drain will be tested next Monday when we come back from Holiday.

Will let you know the results

In your other thread I commented on the hole and rod configuration.
Applies here too :wink:

Hi blue8llz

I totally understood . The UI you suggested can make a quicker-access to turbo. I like the idea too.
We might try this UI in next batch.

Thanks for keeping us informed

Great! Now you will be different than all the companies! Back then, turbo was always in the sequence and it can be memorized. Now with all these higher powered lights, companies got too safe and leavin turbo out and making it hidden.