Nah, no offense. Call me names, question my parentage, I don’t care, as it’s all just 1s and 0s…
It would have to be really hidden. If I can get to it even accidentally, it’s going to annoy me. And I’m all SOSed out. That’s got to be the most annoying blinky mode there is. Maybe if you’re stranded after an avalanche, then you’d need SOS mode, but there’s no normal need for it. Worse, I associate SOS mode with craplights like you see advertised on teevee by former pilots.
So yeah, really hidden, as in buried deep where you couldn’t find it even if you tried. Okay, wishful thinking, but at least if you had to go into turbo, then doubleclick to get to blinkies (starting with strobe, I imagine), then another doubleclick to get to SOS, maybe.
But if it’s as easy as a tripleclick, (between doubleclick for strobe and quadclick for lockout), guaranteed I’ll eventually hit it by accident and get pissed off. No, seriously, I’m so SOSed out it’s not funny, it would piss me off. I’m just sick of that mode being stuffed into flooders and throwers and lanterns and AAA lights and 10,000lm lights and pistol lights and every light in creation. Ugh. :confounded:
I discovered that Skilhunt (at least in the M200) has a “sticky” blinky mode. Defaults to strobe, but if you set it to beacon then go back to normal modes, next time you go into blinky mode it’ll be beacon, not strobe. That at least can be handy.
But in general, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a light that has one dedicated purpose, and doesn’t try to do 100 things. So a red light that has firefly/low/high would be quite enough for me. Don’t want strobes, SOSes, lightning modes, other idiocy that you’d never ever ever used with any normal red light.