[Christmas GAW] Regards from Wurkkos!

[ljtyk]

Go Wurkkos

Keep it simple, FC11 is a winner because it is simple and easy to use. No need to be better than everything, just keep it simple and budget friendly.

[Bort]

Go Wurkkos

Perhaps instead of asking for random ideas you could start a thread and design a specific light with our input from the beginning until its finalized?

[brad]

Go Wurkkos.
The world needs the perfect reading/blackout headlamp, floody and made just for indoor blackout stuff such as playing cards and board games with others, reading a book, working in the kitchen, very long running and not annoying or blinding to others, using a single AA.
Just a soft beam for doing things at arm length and wandering around a dark house, not suitable for hiking or jogging.

[smokygee]

Go Wurkkos

[peg_matite]

@ljtyk

Go Wurkkos

Keep it simple, FC11 is a winner because it is simple and easy to use. No need to be better than everything, just keep it simple and budget friendly.

Couldn’t agree more.

Go Wurkkos…

[Geoduck]

Go Wurkkos
Thanks for the GAW
Thanks for listening.

[alpacamiles]

Go Wurkkos! Thank you for the giveaway! Merry Christmas!

[Aardvark]

Go Wurkkos.
I’m enjoying the colour of my red TS21!

[Stegron]

Go Wurkkos. Great company. Looking forward to the future.

[Gerrit]

Go Wurkkos. Great lights.

[samgalax]

Go Wurkkos!

I would like to see AA USB rechargeable flashlights. 2xaa style.

Thank you for the giveaway!

Merry Christmas!

[mitsuki08]

Go Wurkkos

Something to compete against the SP10 Pro would be nice. I more compact version with a better clip design.

[Wurkkos]

@phouton

Go Workkos! Thanks for the giveaway and Merry Christmas!

I like many of your designs, and especially the high CRI options, please keep that up.
Agreed with the “grandma light” request. The FC11 is pretty close in that regard, and I love it partly for that reason.

Also, what happened to your Thanksgiving GAW? [Thanks Giving GAW]Wurkkos Amazon Black Friday Promotion

this GAW closed and winners already get the prize, Terry should have updated the winner on the thread or contacted by PM

[upsidedown]

Go Wurkkos!
Merry Christmas!

[Wurkkos]

@mitsuki08

Go Wurkkos

Something to compete against the SP10 Pro would be nice. I more compact version with a better clip design.

we are planning a triple AA/14500 light now, by TIR and high CRI special leds

[Wurkkos]

@Lightbringer

Go Wurkkos!

One thing that keeps on being mentioned is The Grandma Light. Ie, a light that’s so simple to use that even The Grandma can use it. Like an old-timey flashlight with a slide-switch that only turns on/off, and can sit in a drawer unattended without ruining the battery/-ies.

The old/original SC31 was almost that light, but got more powerful and more complicated with the ’B and ’pro versions. The old big C- and D-cell Maglites would be like that, with just a single on/off switch on the side, but they were heavy, and the switch would be hard to press if you were arthritic.

Or a different approach, a light with a side e-switch but also with built-in charging “just like a phone”, but simple on/off UI only. Something modest like 500lm. I think it was Xiomi that had a simple simple white-colored light like that. Sneered at by “experts”, but it apparently was a good light for The Grandma.

I imagine it could be bigger, for around the house, not kept in a purse for everyday carry, so a 21700 would be a good choice. Like start with the TS21, but with a limited mode for The Muggle and/or The Grandma. Again, maybe simple on/off and 500lm or so. But the button should be very big and prominent for The Grandma to use easily.

thanks bro, this sounds interesting, so the main point is:
Simple UI: on/off
bigger size: Make it easier for grandma to find it and use it in the room, 21700 better for choice
Low brightness :500lm, or may be 2 modes—100lm and 500lm?
Side switch with USB Charging port ？

[Mexicos91 (maxchaos92)]

Go Wurkkos
Let’s do some light with aux rgb leds under the optic and anduril 2
Will be nice if anduril light have flashing pads exposed

[Lightbringer]

@Wurkkos

thanks bro, this sounds interesting, so the main point is:

Simple UI: on/off

bigger size: Make it easier for grandma to find it and use it in the room, 21700 better for choice

Low brightness :500lm, or may be 2 modes—100lm and 500lm?

Side switch with USB Charging port ？

Yep. My mum always used to get those craplights by the dozen. All 3×AAA in the carriers. Whether the 4-for-10bux lights with 9 LEDs, or the showerhead lights with 50 LEDs, she would almost buy them in bulk, because the alkaleaks would explode inside and eat away the springs in the carriers, as well as ruin the contacts inside the lights.

They were all simple on/off, would put out decent (if horribly Angry Blue) light when the alkaleaks would be fresh, but as you know, just a short bit of use, and the alkaleaks start to wheeze and coff and the light gets dimmer and dimmer and dimmer.

And once the carrier gets ruined (yeah, I ordered a pile of spare carriers from Amazon), the light itself is pretty much toast anyway because of the ruined contacts.

She never cared for “modes” nor bright/dim, even in the few showerhead lights that had it. Oh, and she always would forget to turn off the lights, putting them face-down so that you couldn’t see if they were on or off without lifting them up. So especially after getting run down to nothing after being left on overnight, the runt of the litter would usually leak and ruin the light.

Hence, her buying those craplights in bulk, and me buying extra carriers.

I did get “Ultrafire” (they’re not) AT01s and lobotomising the crappy driver to bypass the µC entirely. Complete and total POS light, garbage, but figured it was worth a shot. Then ended up like the other craplights.

So one thing I’d REALLY like to see would be a timer, that after 30min-60min of use, it would automatically turn itself off. Maybe 2min of an occasional blink every 10sec or so, and another 1min of a faster blink like every 2sec or so, plenty of time to just touch the switch and reset the timer, but if not done, the light would just happily turn off to protect the cells. That would even protect the light if tossed into a drawer and something hit the switch turning it on.

And finally, a wider spot to be more of a flooder than a thrower. Most old-timers wouldn’t be scouring the backyard at night looking for sleepwalking goats, but looking into a closet, into a cabinet, in a cluttered drawer, or maybe an attic, basement, or unused room. So they wouldn’t necessarily need a spotlight for lots of throw, but a wider-angle area-light.

So even with a dumbed-down version of the UI for The Muggle, a few extra features would make them a great light for The Grandma, addressing those things that few if any lights have.

[gregor]

Thanks for the giveaway!

Go Wurkkos.

[pol77]

Go Wurkkos!
Merry Christmas and thank you for the GAW.