If this A01 was a 1-mode critter (twisty, after all!), I’d buy the whole rainbow of ’em. Yeah, even for an AAA light.
I love the sealed-back design. Aside from the front glass, that’s only 1 weak point now, and that’s where the head screws onto the tube. One less point of water ingress…
For EDC, sure, get a jack-of-all-trades (and master of none) flashlight what all kinds of modes, no worries. For a simple keychain light? On/off is usually plenty. If you want moonlight in the middle of the night, by the time you flip through all the other modes, you’re already night-blind.
I have so many “special-purpose” lights that are 1-mode only. The most high-rel lights are 1-mode only. 7135-based lights have parallellism in their favor (no µC to go mental on you), and simple resistored-DD lights are even simpler at the expense of current-regulation (ie, light drops off as the cell is discharged).
I only use “modes” when I’ve got other lights to back me up. That light I can afford to be a JOAT as far as brightness, but the beam is still the exact same across all modes.
That’s why for most “normal people”, I’ll recommend a zoomie, even though I generally dislike ’em (except if the moveble head were welded into a permaflood position). But for muggles, yeah, zoomies give ’em that range from flood to batsignal, dim to bright.
But for those who can’t handle even that, who view those with disdain, who want a simple on/off just like their plastic-tube glass-bulb 2×D drugstore special, hey, give ’em what they want.
I know someone who doesn’t seem to remember that lights can have modes, and who’ll leave the light on whatever mode it was last in, and doesn’t/can’t figure that it can be changed brighter/dimmer. People like that, they’ll be disgruntled that the damned light is so dim and good for $#$#&! (Nevermind that it’s stuck in moonlight mode.)
The grey one’s not bad but the other colors don’t do anything for me. It also just doesn’t have the same sexiness that the BLF 348 has. But it does have the modes and the lanyard hole. The other drawback for me is that it is a twisty, I prefer a clicky, forward if possible.
BTW: For those of you Cu freaks, they do have a copper version as well.
Yeah, you mean the thermal path is just as lousy as a P60 light, because the 348 uses the same construction to hold the pill in place…
I guess they do it for easy production because it will always fit like this.
Sounds a little high to me, but probably it’s normal.
1.5 Volts x 1.5 Amperes = 2.25 Watts x 75% efficiency of driver (guesstimated) = 1.7 Watts to the LED = approximately 170 Lumen x 60% efficiency of the reflector and lens = 100 Lumen light output.
Hmm… that’s twice the measured output of 48 Lumen.
I don’t know…
Maybe that was 48 Lumens on 1.2 Volts from a NiMH.
(let’s say 1.2 Volts x 1.2 Amperes = 1.44 Watts x 75% eff. driver = 1.1 Watts to LED = appr. 110 Lumen x 60% eff. optics = 66 Lumen …??)