I dont’ recall, that was a long time ago. To be perfectly honest I never really found the ringy XRE beam pattern all that troublesome. Many people did however, so there was never a shortage of both smooth and OP reflector options.
Thanks Matt, always enjoy your videos and found the history lesson along with your quest for an available trademark interesting.
I have nothing against simple interfaces, but the behavior of "immediately after turning ON, one click for Low, two clicks for High" does not seem ideal compared to something more like this if possible:
One Click from OFF for Normal Brightness
Press and Hold from OFF for Minimum Brightness
Double Click from OFF for Maximum Brightness
Press and Hold while ON for Ramping Brightness
One Click while ON to turn OFF
I believe this is preferable, because from OFF, you can directly access your desired brightness level and then fine tune it with ramping if required.
This looks PERFECT. Lights such as Wurkkos and Sofirn just don’t really do it for me as far as recommendations. Can you use an LED that is reasonably high CRI and decent tint? (Basically no cree LEDs fit that description ) Keep up the good work!
it seems to me unnecessarily long (what is going on in the driver that it has to be so long?)
and why does the head have to get bigger? the lumens are low, it shouldn;t need heat sinking…
you have a pretty concentrated hot spot, so maybe you need a conical reflector for that
but i would rather it be TIR and more floody - anything to make it small enough for pocket carry
to me, it is too big
if the main thing you are selling is the simple UI, why does it also have to be so big?