For a true EDC light, moonlight is a must. Thing is, people have different definitions of “moonlight”, and seem to conflate all of them. I prefer to distinguish them as “low-low”, “moonlight”, and “firefly”.
“low-low” is the brightest of the bunch, similar to low but actually lower. It’s probably a few lumens, good for grubbling around in a bag to find your keys.
“moonlight” is next down, maybe 1lm or so, enough for lighting up a clock from across the room at night without ruining your night-vision.
“firefly” is lowest, able to look right at the LED without squinting, a fractional-lumen, just enough to read something close-up without ruining your night-vision.
Again, some people find “moonlight” on their lights to be too bright, others not bright enough. Good luck trying to make everyone happy.
The brightness levels I see on my VG10 are about perfect for me. I’d recommend keeping those.
Ditto. Whatever light I have at night, I make sure is set on its lowest setting. I’m even using my S2+ less and less (read, hardly at all anymore) because generic “low” is just way too bright in the middle of the night.
Lights went out here a few days ago. So time to put my new (Jan. 2017) VG10 to use as a nightlight in moonlight mode. Barely able to tail stand, with a good amount of lean. It would be nice if the switch cap was recessed a little in relation to the tailcap. Really like this light a lot.
Hosts would be excellent to sell in any of your lights. I’ve modded the new version and old version C8s, the TG06, the VG15, and a few VG10s. They are all very easy to mod and it would give us a chance to put what we want in them. I’m sure you’ll sell quite a few more going just the host route because your flashlight bodies are very good quality.
Wonder why no one ever had a UI where, say, if you had 4 “slots” of light output, you just set 1-255 “clicks” for each setting (setting to 0 means skip that slot). 1 flash for slot 1, through 4 flashes for slot 4. You set ’em as you want ’em. Lets you set:
• firefly, low, mid, high
• mid, low, mid, high
• high, mid, low, moonlight
or whatever your twisted little hearts desire.
Then, no one’d be bitching about “moonlight” being too bright or too dim, or about HML/LMH ordering, or about mode-spacing, etc.
And 255/0/0/0 would be a 1-mode on/off light. 10/255/0/0 would be moon/turbo. Etc.
Gimme a VG10 with that UI, and I’ll kiss ya on the mouth.
C8, VG10, & TG06. Include everything in a complete light except for LED, MCPCB, and driver. Different colored rubber buttons would be nice also, in case you want multiple hosts and have different ideas for each light.