Hm, I think Iām going to need that UI printed for reference.
Maybe something like this
Or else āupside downā on a T-shirt so I can read it easily ā¦.
It has a battery check mode to show approximate remaining charge. Itās a simple āfour barsā system like a cell phoneās signal icon, not detailed like a DMM reading. The idea is to let you know when the battery needs recharging, or if there is enough power left for a bike ride, etc⦠not to show the exact voltage.
I know that it āLooksā complicated TK, but itās really just āclickā for on, then click, click click, to go up through the brightness levels, and āPressā at any time to go down one.
Isnāt that about it?
The disco modes and battery checks mean nothing to me, so they wonāt be a bother at all for me.
Pretty much. I think of it as āclickā, ātapā, and āholdā though. Click for on/off, and tap or hold (like a camera shutter half-pressed) to go up or down.
The button on the tail is a hard physical kill switch for power. If you press it, power is cut⦠end of story. No matter what, you can always turn the light off with a single click, because it physically disconnects the battery.
After power is cut, a small capacitor gradually drains itself as a way of measuring time while the light is off. This capacitorās voltage gets read immediately after power comes back, and the light uses that to determine if you made a short, medium, or long press.
To toggle mode memory or the mode group, enter config mode (quickly do a bunch of short taps until the light stops coming on). Then the light will blink out two groups of two. Turn it off between the first two blinks to toggle the mode group, or turn it off between the second two blinks to toggle mode memory. This setting is remembered even with the battery removed, so you only have to do it once.
Sheesh guys, its awesome and easy, all you have to remember is: turn off/on like any other light, forward advance like any other light with short press .5s, hold for medium press to āreverseā into the special modes, or ignore if you donāt want em. You really donāt have to know anything else, nice and simple as it can be and still get all these preferences in there!
Just remembering 2 things you get almost all the functionality: short press advance, medium press reverse, keep going to reverse into special modes and you donāt need anything else really, just set up 4 vs 7 and memory off/on in the beginning and you have to known nothing else afterwards but short press forwards medium press reverse into special.