Yea I do think the 5A driver is more reliable, I only had one of them fail, I had my 5000k LH351D on mode 3 (10% brightness) and the beam started to turn angry blue and it got super hot so I had turn it off, not sure what went wrong but the lower brightness modes stopped working completely. I replaced driver and Led and it’s fine now though.
I just like the mode spacing and runtime of the 4*7135 drivers but I’d pick the 5A driver for reliability and nice output.
Well I think it’s probably good if the light always comes on in moonlight, just need to find a good balance between the mode spacing and having too many modes to tap through. Most of the groups are too similar in terms of mode spacing. Adding a toggleable option to be able to choose whether you want ascending or descending mode order would further reduce the amount of groups needed, pretty much like the Reylight driver.
I like the idea of being able to disable/enable a true low moonlight, like the way you can disable it in Reylights or the way you can disable mode memory in the current convoy drivers.
So for example an S2+ with 5A driver and SST40 (take these number with a large grain of salt)
Mode 1 (0.1%) 1.8 Lumens
Mode 2 (1%) 18 Lumens
Mode 3 (10%) 180 Lumens
Mode 4 (35%) 630 Lumens
Mode 5 (100%) 1800 Lumens
Modes 1 and 2 are fine.
There’s a big difference between 2 and 3.
Most of the time Mode 5 will look very similar to mode 4 because it will step down due to heat.
So I think adding a mode with 5% would give a nice brightness of around 90 lumens maybe in this example. And 20% could give around 360 lumens maybe.
I don’t like how the current drivers have 20% separate from any of the groups that have moonlight or 10% so all of my convoys just have the default group 1 selected, the other groups are just too similar with minor differences.
Also for your suggestion of 10 taps for battery indicator, I think that would be good as long as you don’t accidently go into config mode and yea i’d love too see accurate voltage read outs rather than the current indicator.