No, just occasional use. In each case I’d try to turn it on and nothing. Freshly charged battery… nothing. Remove the tailcap and put a screwdriver from battery - to tube… light. Obviously switches failed.
Nothing really, I just wouldn’t be interested in it, in this particular light. Most of them are too cold white. I think this little single mode light would be extremely popular with a more neutral or even warm tint.
Lumintops EDC01 with the Osram. God awful. Tool AAA with Osram. God awful.
Had a Wuben, Acebeam, and a Manker that I forget the name of, all small lights, not throwers. They were crap as well.
I like the Osrams in bigger lights with a big reflector or those new cool TIR’s they are using now. Great throwers. Depending on the LED variant.
So I don’t think anything is wrong with them. Should they be in a single mode AAA light? I dunno maybe a few people would like them. Not to offend blind people but, some of them might like it. Most likely not though.
As i suspected, question answered though, hidden in plain sight! Shame, prob dead horse time but…it’d be nice with fwd click for momentary.
I got one of the “blf 348”s with nichia and it was a horrible 219c. Luckily the reflector was open enough for 219b 45 swap. Gave it to my dad. I like the modest output. It did get pretty hot when left on though.
I guess it is hard to get small FC switches. A while ago I bought some small ones from Kaidomain store at Aliexpress, thinking that they would be FC, but they are reverse switches. So I guess that is one of the main factors.
Olight has the i3T but I guess the switch is customized by them to that light, not commonly available.