Thanks, this has been a helpful review!
I’m not a fan of mode memory in an EDC light - do you know if there’s any reasonable way to disable this, like a solder blob across key contacts on the driver?
Thanks!
Hm - OK, thanks! I thought I saw in the other video review that a regular “on” click takes it to the last-used mode.
Short-click to low sounds perfect though!
I was trying to make that same decision. What clinched it for me was that I want my light to come on in the lowest mode every time, and be able to cycle up through the higher modes, which the UT01 can do.
I had the MI7 and the Manker E11 (the Original of this clone) and kept the Manker. Both are excellent AA/14500 lights with lots of power, but the beam pattern is completely different. MI7 has XP-L Hi and is more like a little thrower (tight bright spot and much darker spill) , and it´s only available in cold white. The Manker on thr other side is much floodier, which I prefer as an EDC that is also used indoors. Plus it´s available in neutral white.
K.