Better QA/QC.
Not shipping lights until they’ve completed development, nor expecting paying customers to find bugs for you.
Better QA/QC.
Not shipping lights until they’ve completed development, nor expecting paying customers to find bugs for you.
More and better throwy floody combo lights,.
I love how contradictory the “wants” are in this thread
A minimum standard for quality control.
Getting a quad with one LED defective should not be acceptable.
A manufacturer offering you a discount or swap on BLF for publicity should not be considered compensation for bad quality control.
Really guys, let’s make it clear that we are willing to pay extra to get something that works.
More colours from Maglite or even from Streamlight too.
+1
I’d like to see that…but corners must be cut when building a product to a price point. Budget lights have gotten a lot better, but a budget light is budget for a reason.
2 switch like sofirn - forward clicky tail switch with momentary on.
No charge port / power bank or on board charging (more simple and more reliable)
Use of generic batteries
Efficient boost/buck drivers with a proper moonlight! I keep coming back to the blf a6 driver just because it has good max output and a very low moonlight. Even lots of linear drivers from convoy etc still have a lowest mode of several lumens. I built an s21a with a kaidomain p4000 buck driver and a 519a and it works well, but the lowest mode is slightly too high and it has some questionable mode memory.
I would like to see a flashlight with 3 or 4 switches to press. Each with it’s own version of Anduril. Anduril 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 and maybe Turbo Anduril or a Warp Factor 1 switch
Not so much for me as I am a muggle who is happy with low, medium, high and off, but for the manic button pressers who think a lightning strike mode may someday save the planet.
A 16340 version of the Wurkkos TS10!
A 16340 version of the Olight Warrior Mini!
I think 18350s are a lot better for a very marginal size increase
Interesting but not unexpected requests.
More Budget Lights - Fireflies
More Buck/Boost Drivers becoming the norm (even in LEP’s) - Fireflies
21700 SFT40 Thrower (with Buck Driver) - Fireflies
Buck Driver with Turbo - Fireflies
Buck Driver with Proper moonlight - Fireflies
Multi emitter TIR Buck Driven lights - Fireflies
Fireflies is obviously my favorite, for tons of great reasons.
Using an 18350 in the “coin pocket” is harder than an 16340!
The diameter increases more than what my pockets would like! After being used to carry 14500 or 16340 lighta for EDC I can tell that an 18350 is larger than what I would prefer, hence my suggestions
I’d particularly happy with a smaller Warrior Mini version :laughing:
100,000 lumen LEP focusable from a wide beam down to a pin point for close range burning
It’s been said before I’d like more muggle UIs. I may be a Luddite but even if I wanted to use lighting mode all the steps to get to it is a pain in the butt and with all the options I’m always worried the settings might be changing in my pocket.
More Hi CRI throwy-LEDs, and LEPs.
Get rid of the odd UIs. I like Anduril, and Toykeeper is our hero! (though I don’t want it in every light.) The UI for some of the convoy lights is a tragedy, and Acebeam UIs, WTF?!?
More lights with control rings.
Better heat-sinking and cooling in high power lights without needing fandles so that flashlights can run at a couple thousand lumens for an hour-ish. This goes double for lanterns.
More AA headlamps that can take LR91, Eneloop, and 14500 cells. Ditto for AA flashlights, but let them have 2xAA tubes as well.
No more frelling proprietary and non-replaceable batteries.
USB-C (or even Bluetooth) customizable-UI lights, especially ones with multiple channels and multiple color emitters.
It’s been said before I’d like more muggle UIs. I may be a Luddite but even if I wanted to use lighting mode all the steps to get to it is a pain in the butt and with all the options I’m always worried the settings might be changing in my pocket.
This is largely what I alluded to in my want for out-of-band configuration. My frustration with programmable lights is that the config menus are arcane while entering them accidentally happens all too often in use.
Something like the Indum Smart concept from ~15 years ago on CPF would be interesting as well - literally build your own UI using a graphical interface.
Efficient boost/buck drivers with a proper moonlight! I keep coming back to the blf a6 driver just because it has good max output and a very low moonlight. Even lots of linear drivers from convoy etc still have a lowest mode of several lumens. I built an s21a with a kaidomain p4000 buck driver and a 519a and it works well, but the lowest mode is slightly too high and it has some questionable mode memory.
you gotta check out some of the new fireflies lights with insane moonlight and fully efficient buck driver with fet and charging. I need to pick up one myself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/106y0b1/its_a_supernatural_delight_novmu_e07x_tiny_nugget/
Personally I actually think I prefer smaller more reasonable flashlights. I don’t want a 5000 lumen flashlight that can only do 5000 lumen for 20s and 300 lumens otherwise. A small compact efficient 800 lumen flashlight with long runtime and usb charging would be nice and I don’t even really need turbo. I guess something like zebralight but with common ui we use and charging and better leds.