There was also an Eveready with this form factor.
Very good backup lights when I was doing a lot of cave crawling.
Driver designers take note — This kind of thumb-pushed side switch can move both forward and backward from the neutral point.
Or go in 4 directions as on many cell or wireless phones.
That would allow more possible signal combinations.
I’d live to see a modern version along these lines.
I loved mine as a kid. This has some really interesting possibilities! Create a nice aluminum body with a quality metal slide switch. I think I might go play in the CAD…
I agree; I have a couple of Mini AA2s and if I could swap in some Nichia 219Cs I’d be a happy camper. Unfortunately they’ve defeated my best efforts to open them.
The next best things are the old Fenix L2P / L1P hosts from a decade ago. I’ve opened them easily with low heat, and swapped in EOS Lamp drivers and modern emitters. Slightly heavier, but almost as nice as the 4Sevens Mini. There’s no reason these utterly simple hosts couldn’t be duplicated for a fraction of their ‘Big Name’ prices.
The green is not from the lens, the LED itself has an ugly green tint
Replaced with Nichia 219 high CRI mine has now a rosy tint
If this would happen an e-switch light with rotary head like Jet-1 and a tube machined from one piece
And a ramping firmware like Narsil added with NiMh support, likely a sandwich driver with 2 boards
Nichia LED 219 D320 CRI80 or high CRI as LED choices
Cree LEDs with a small reflector get always a too warm yellow hotspot from tint shift
Well, Texas is close to China! It’s just right over yonder. I don’t attempt to do China prices but if we can get some volume, we can keep the price down. We’ll do our best if we build it.