This is why I don’t understand you comment I quoted above, the tail cap switch is not near the front.
I have a AAAA Stylus Pro, don’t know if the AAA is the same. You can either push the switch for momentary, but if you want constant on you have to twist the light.
Quite a rare UI, but being single mode it works quite well I agree.
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I started looking at new lights and see a bunch of new ones with the side switches which would probably work well too so my questions to you are…
Most modern side switch lights use an electronic switch, i.e. it isn’t a physical connection in the circuit. It’s a bit like pressing a button on your keyboard, and different press types do different things.
Some have what they call a momentary feature, although most are clunky to use or require you to spend more time faffing making it momentary, than it would be just to turn it on or off.
Electronic switches are great, but personally I don’t think they are the solution here. As some require a press and hold to activate or turn off or mode change.
Very clever and versatile as they allow a single switch to do many functions, down side is it’s often slower or require more actions to achieve simple things.
Depends exactly what you mean by this. I like something with momentary, i.e. you part push the switch and it lights ups, let go and it goes off.
This is commonly known as a forward clicky. The Stylus isn’t really a clicky as it never “clicks” and the push part of the switch doesn’t offer constant on.
Forward clickies can be located anywhere, although these days most commonly located in the tail cap.
I think part of this must be output related. The PD10 probably puts out a fair chunk more light and a single CR123a doesn’t hold the most capacity.
It’s then a balance of output vs battery size to = good runtime.