Perhaps muggle mode could use the ramping but limited to the single 7135 channel? Could be a training mode for using the UI, and useful for experienced users in a long term blackout situation should you need maximum runtime.
About reset using connecting power while holding the switch, this might be difficult for people with arthritis. Just a thought.
You remembered my lost EDC from 4 years ago Wow! Good memory! Actually, Iāve not lost it again since. Iāve just changed from keeping it in my front pocket to my rear and the longer tube causes it to be pushed up and out of my pocket. (Iāve had to move it to my rear pocket since phones are getting so darn big - too big to accomodate a flashlight in the same pocket.)
Thatās a great idea, but single click to turn on should always (no memory) go directly to a āusefulā general use mode so anyone could pick it up and use it.
After losing one to the snow, and finding it months later (it wasnāt in the snow at all), all of my pocket lights either come with a properly fitted pocket clip (that I use) or I wonāt buy it. My brother lost the exact same light and refound his also. He also uses the pocket clip now.
Thus begins the slippery slope of turning the muggle mode into a full fledged UI with a learning curve. Sure, we think itās simple, but to most āitās just a flashlightā and shouldnāt be so complicated. If it didnāt have memory it would act as a single mode muggle light, but with the bonus ramping UI for those who may be more interested in it.
A better way would be to make the whole button a magnet. And you epoxy a plate underneath it.
So you get a verry flat T-shape, upside down.
If you consider this while construction it is easy to chose a standard flat barrel / coin sized magnet while altering the size of the bezel arround the button.
CRX did this kind of mod on his titanium Tool AAA, before he added the lit switch.
EDIT:
The first three pics:
original switch cover
plate + magnet + a top cover?
both side by side
As the backside bezel is screwed on, Lumintop could ad two switch covers, on metal, on magnetic. The user can choose.
And the optic wouldnāt alter.
Iām fairly certain that the design is carved in stone at this late date. Maybe it could happen, but I think it should have been brought up in the design phase and not now.
Understand, I have no inner knowledge, but in general after a design is finalized and is this far along, changes are doubtful. I also donāt think making this light larger (would adding a magnet make it so?), if that would be the result, is going to happen since one of the design parameters was/is itās size, and lots of us bought it with that in mind. Itās essentially the size of the D4, with small variations, for $30.
Taken from post #1, the underline is mine:
The FW3A
Small elegant EDC triple flashlight designed by Fritz15
Runs on a single 18650 battery.
94.8 Ć 25.5 mm
But maybe Iām all wrong. It wouldnāt be the first time. But I do know that if it was made larger it wouldnāt do the job for me and I wouldnāt want one. I donāt need another light, but I want this one due to the stated design goals.