Funny, 'cause I just rediscovered my non-working SF13 that I put aside years ago to “fix it later”. Alkaleaks crapped the bed like Amber Heard and destroyed the contacts/spring inside.
Wellp, I finally redid the contacts/spring, and it works again. Of course, it got diffusion film for a nicer beam (don’t recall what it was originally), and aside from being CW (yecch), it might make a nice granma light.
Maybe something like that in 4000K, usb charging, and the double-length “141000” Li cell like the Acebeam 2AA Pokomon uses. But it’d have to be threadlocked to keep smoothbrains from trying to “charge” a set of alkaleaks, and thus not dual-fuel.
Just make the rear button neon orange or something so granma knows where to press. And maybe only low/high. Or maybe only single-mode on/off like that dinky all-white “Lady Xoiumi” light that came out ages ago like it was so revolutionary.
Or instead of Basic Black, a high-vis color like lemon-yellow or orange…orange. And contrasting button.
Or instead of mech tailswitch, a sideswitch (needs to accommodate charging, after all) that does this. Soft-touch. Big. Contrasting color.
The best hope I had for a granma light was the OG SC31 with nice big clunky sideswitch, before it got roid-rage with each succeeding ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘pro’, etc., version which just turned it into yet another “Meeeee toooooo!” tubelight.
But every time someone asks “what should I get granma as a nice simple light she can use with her arthritic hands?”, I just point them to the ancient-tek 2AA Maglites. Twist on, twist off, done. Totally retarded light, crap beam, but it’s simple to use, well beyond any “modern” flashlight. I even offer to slap on some diffusion film to unshittify the beam.
That should say a LOT.