Interest collect for a new Sofirn design: tube style18650, magnetic ring control, USB-C charging, 500 lm max (AKA grandma light)

.1 lumen mode for me

GRRRR !!! :wink:

Okay, agreed. :slight_smile:

(I wonder how many grannies can still see anything with 1 Lumen though…)

LOL
(desperately hoping you’re joking…)

Not even a little bit

1 lumen or less, wall or ceiling bounced, is absolutely perfect for night use and preserving night vision and circadian rhythm. Since the majority of light users aren’t looking to illuminate a football field the majority of the time, low settings are objectively the more practical and more widely used.

There’s a reason people are asking for lower low settings, and it’s not because they’re too dumb to know how to use a light.

Jos, maybe ask Sofirn to include this in the package:

Or would that be too bright?

Interested

I bought several hundred flashlights and tested hundreds also so I’ve a pretty good concept of what 1 lumen mode is. Anything over 1 lumen mode has a good chance of disturbing or waking up family members. At 1 lumen OR LESS, it will not wake them up but its bright enough for me to find stuff. I ceiling bounce my 1 lumen light at night to check up on my toddlers every night. Very nice mode to have.

Interested. :+1:

My thoughts exactly, among many. But I guess we’re not smart enough to know how to >cough< properly use our lights. :person_facepalming:

I don’t see what all the rant is about a 1 lumen or .1 lumen low. Make it as low as the electronics will possible let it go, as in the Jetbeam RRT-01.
This is supposed to be a variable control ring light. It doesn’t matter what you like for a lumen low it can be dialed in just like everyone likes it. Simplest UI ever.
Low is fully at your control in the ring :stuck_out_tongue: .

Im in for one

Oh come on…
Who cares about your circadian rhythm when you have to take a leak?

Only when you ignore the consequences (missing brightness levels, accidentally leaving the light turned on) and alternative options (smaller lights, more dedicated night lights).
But apparently what is low to one is high to others too…
Maybe one (me?) has poor night vision and others maybe have malfunctioning irises and / or a bad image processing.

Well, i never said anyone was too dumb.
It’s just that some demands have unfortunate consequences for the rest of the UI or the modes.
As a rule of thunmb, every step up with 3 times (some say 4 times) more brightness looks like twice the brightness, and makes for quite an ideal mode spacing.
You can bypass that with stepless dimming, of course, but in practice that usually means ramping by means of pressing the one single button you have, so that’s not ideal either (because it’s never exactly right or you press too long, etcetera…)

I’m fine with moon mode, as long as it’s hidden by a long press, but that’s a problem for tailswitch lights.
I use a light when i want to see properly.
For me a 100 Lumen lowest mode is dim enough, but warm white (and of course high CRI) is a bit of a must for me late at night.
But i can understand this can be too much for others, so i’d say 15 to 35 Lumen is a good lowest mode.
But that’s for a light that’s capable of 1000 Lumen or more, and then you need at least 4 modes to have decent mode spacing.
Hey, or a stepless dimming ring like this one. :slight_smile:

Okay, i’ve said more than enough about this here.
Sorry for being a butthole.
This is not my favorite season… :weary:
…or maybe i’m just a bit of a butthole sometimes…

Yeah, you’re right.
This was not the place to start this discussion, at least, if we’re going for stepless dimming.

Interested

Still love these 100 horses pulling in 100 directions discussions on BLF.
You know what the best part of that is: most of their buttholes are pointed at the same spot.
Maybe we should investigate if grandma can live with 1 lumen. And if not, crank up the Amps till she does.
You can add a diffuser for those who are blinded by the light or can’t find their way back to the coffin.

Red suspenders can be really cool though, if you combine it tastefully. :smiley:

But besides that, i think a stepless dimming twisty ring light would be great for anyone.
Or is that perhaps also my flashaholism speaking…?
But i.m.o. manual stepless regulation by sliding or rotating is both practical and natural.
Like an audio amplifier with a volume knob, as opposed to a + and - button.
Like a simple (old fashioned) portable radio even, where turning to minus until ‘click’ it turns off.

But it was actually off topic here…
It’s just that i’m always looking for affordable drivers, and good ones (constant current without PWM) are hard to find.
So i was happy to see Simon (Convoy) stocks a bunch of new drivers, but then i saw the terrible mode spacing (or rather low or middle modes that are simply missing), which is caused by the addition of moon modes i will never use…
This is a direct result of the loud moon mode fan club.
They want to use their 5000K 3000 Lumen lights at night where they sleep…

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Please tell me to stop going on about this here… :person_facepalming:

Yes, please stop

interested, please put me on the list.

should be great for wife and parents