You are of course welcome to your opinion, but it seems to me that people are going too far with the insistence that all these designs need to be re-worked somehow. The designs have been submitted. The poll is open. Too many people are trying to pressure designers into making changes. IMHO, this is not the time for being back seat drivers. These guys arenât getting paid by the hour here. They donât work for us. This is a hobby. The idea that they must work in every suggested modification we might dream up is absurd.
I explained before how I voted for a design that, while nice, wasnât my heartâs first pick. I voted for the one I thought would make the best light from the designs we were given, assuming the designs donât change between now and production. I think that is the most honest way to vote. Voting with strings attached is only going to make the poll results meaningless.
That is true, people are doing this for free, but I highly doubt anything can stay the way it is before it goes into manufacturing.
It simply never works out like that.
It would be great if it did, but it never does, so change is something that people need to accept.
Thatâs what engineering is like.
No, the voting was an excellent âfeelerâ.
But i.m.o. a bit premature, and i understand 5ar thought it was a bit premature too.
(there is also PM communication going on you see.)
Ah but youâre not aware of everything you see.
You just assume these things are an attack from just me on just 5ar and / or his design.
But i was explaining something and i would like to be corrected if iâm wrong.
But youâre not in the position to do that.
I like the rubber bezel/tail bumpers idea. On a flashlight this large it would be great. I donât see it in any of the designs, but hope it could be considered for the one(s) that is selected.
Pretty awkward to put a bumper on the head of designs other than 1, itâs the only light that rest on the bezel when standing horizontal, all others stand on the elbow of the head and would require a huge bumper, N°2 would require a quasi condom.
And on design 2 the cigar grip thingy would demand a massive rubber bumper at the tail.
