I think there is no problem at all to increase the current to 3A. The mode of my driver sample is 30–100, but visually the brightness difference between the two modes is very small. I consider only providing one mode 100% or two modes 10–100. I don’t know about hunting. I would like to know if 10% mode is useful for hunting. Or is a 100% mode sufficient for hunting?
100% mode is NOT sufficient for hunting. Having a LOW is important.
I wonder if there is a visible difference between 10-20-30% as Simon mentioned.
SOS: I personally find hidden RED Strobe or SOS or beacon, quite useful.
Our car always breaks down in the wrong place and using a RED flashlight blinky instead of the car blinkies preserves the car battery . Of course it could be Hidden but very useful. on the other hand WHITE strobe is annoying.
For photographers 10 to 100% is too big a step. I prefer the second mode to be at the point at which the light can run without getting excessively hot.
I sold like hundreds of lights to hunters, literarly all of them were single mode. I offer to put modes as buyer wants, they all say “one mode - 100%” and a few that I sold with 12 modes firmware returned for reprogramming sooner or later.
I hear you, you are right , 12 modes is a major overkill. I think Low is very useful while hunting. but Lux-Perpetua asked for a simple config mode High~~Low and Low~~>High. Maybe a 3rd mode just 100% would be a plus ?
I think I jumped too fast to the conclusion that we are discussing both RED and Green KP CSLNM1.F1. :confounded:
Actually, having a GREEN LED is very cool, especially for tracking, often it will reveal more details because gives you more shadows than RED.
When you are in middle of greenery, 540 nm will be borderline invisible for wildlife. But something like 660nm RED is completely invisible to them.
I’ve built or directed more than a few hunters or shooters to rifle lights and they all want on/off only. Multi mode is one more variable hunters don’t want.
I like the old UI from early Fenix TK11 and some Eagletacs with a high low interface via head loosen tighten. A 2x2 mode UI can be very simple and flexible and forward switch compatible.
Really wish this would come back to “tactical” lights