Good point. I don’t understand why they have to split the moonlight. All the other manufacturers have moonlight with the main modes. I wish Manker fix this in their next version. Otherwise the new UI is perfect.
The “perfect” UI is hard to obtain by everyone’s standards. But to be fair to Manker, this looks pretty darn close as far as UI’s are concerned. I’m worried a little bit about mode spacing, but we’ll see. This is the first Manker (along with the MC13) that I’ve been interested in in a while.
I think it is much simpler. We are called budget light forum and most Manker flashlights are priced a little bit higher than we like. Some of their lights were cloned and on BLF we often embraced/encouraged the clones which (I think) make Manker not really like their customers, not really do much interaction and forum discounts etc.
Regarding their UI, I don’t really feel too strongly about click for off versus hold for off. I know many people do though.
I got a few of E02 and E03 models (AA/AAA right-angle) and I like them a lot.
they have not been popular because their UI so far has been one of the worst,
and they continued to use a terrible switch that fails early due to poor design, and is impossible to fix.
(the switch has a blue LED in it that they do fancy things with, but i have seen it break very soon in 2 different lights)
i think the new light does not use the bad UI or the bad switch.
wle
That Manker E14 looks tempting. Similar size to my Lumintop EDC18. Takes 18650’s which I have plenty of anyways. Copper heat sink too. I think I’ll pick one up. 
My keychain light is the Manker LAD 2 and never had problems with it aside from the USB rubber cap that really doesn’t stay shut.
Thank you very much for the information. Now I understand why people do not like Manker. Despite making good (looking) product they do not stand by them or care about their customer.
That’s exactly what I see from a lot of posts. Their switch usually go bad after a while but they just deny warranty or do not respond to contact from the customer. Hopefully, they can learn the lesson from the past.
Manker CS says: NW: 4000K, CRI>90.
Thanks for pointing that out. I’m not sure if it was there before (I don’t remember seeing it) but the product page now says:
I wish 5000K were an option, but at least we have options. I’ve had plenty of the 5000K LH351D, but never tried a 4000K. I’ve had plenty of 4000K SST20s and I’m ok with them, but 5000K is still my preferred CCT.
we choose 4000k for NW,high CRI.
- Built-in removable silica gel light filter plastic sheet (green)
Is listed in the specs, can anyone explain exactly what that means?
This is great, I didn’t paid attention to that line.
I suppose it means that a round piece of minus green filter is included, like those LEE filter some people stick to their flashlight to reduce the green tint. “(Green)” probably refers to what’s being filtered out, because these filters are pink.
Yes, that’s what I’m thinking as well, just trying to get verification.
Here is the E14 III and MC13 together. Hopefully there will be some impressions soon
Hum, I like it 
I think the only reason ramping is so trendy is because so many companies fail so badly on providing adequate mode spacing. Ramping fixes that issue as long as the light is capable of a low enough low.
This is a valid point.It is exactly what I think. I have multiple ramping lights,they’re fun to play with but Im not use them much.
If a light has good spacing and UI such as Zebralight, they would NOT need ramping feature at all.
For me the appeal of ramping was you could choose any brightness you wanted, and it was sort of a universal UI that would work for lots of different lights/uses. Typically different lights with different uses and max power levels would have different mode levels, and so in principle using ramping on all those lights could simplify the process of choosing a driver and modes for your lights.
The main drawback of ramping is that you don’t really know the power and runtime of any particular mode, but I think it’s still a good UI for a general use light where you are not concerned so much with runtime.
Let’s Get The Party Started - 
Anyone said party ?!
agree that even , logical level spacing is never considered
i could live without ramping if i had a 1 lumen low, going to 3, 10, 30, 100, 300, etc
the FW3A has stepped mode, that would be fine if that was all
but i like the ramp mode better, still, i have tried switching back and forth and never seem to stay stepped for long
wle