Right. I have designed a new UI for this light, trying to make it as easy and pleasant to use as possible:
Click on, click off
#1 requirement for any flashlight is to get it on or off quickly and effortlessly
Click on/off works instantly, no matter how fast you turn the light on or off - no risk for accidental strobe or other "double-click features"
Suitable also for signaling!
Click W to change mode
4 modes in the main cycle -> find the correct mode quickly
Need 2 modes up? Just click twice - no risk for accidental strobe or other annoyances!
The whole UI is based on click and press actions (and nothing else!) => no difficult double/triple/quad clicks!
Empirical studies show that especially older people have problems with double clicks
No risk for accidental double clicks that may turn the light on strobe or simply blind you!
Shortcuts to lowest mode and turbo mode
A typical situation is that you quickly need one of these modes without knowing which mode was last used
Momentary turbo (from off or any mode)
Imagine walking with the light on 250lm mode, you hear something, press W-button for a momentary turbo to see what's there, and finally release button to get back to 250lm mode and continue your walk.. :)
Hidden Strobe, Beacons & SOS
In case you happen to need them..
UI diagram: (Modes are not final. Anything can still change. No promises, no lies!)
Say I’m on Med1 and want to cycle back to Low, would I be able to do that without flashing the higher modes at all if button presses are fast enough? Or would it require full power cycle?
Being able to drop to a lower output so quickly is one of my favorite things about my Zebralights and the new Anduril FW.
Also any word of the emitters and any choices there? LH351D was exciting before we found out most of the bins available are very green-ish.
the UI looks great. I love two button UI. However, was anything done to make the buttons easier to locate in the dark. The TO46R buttons were extremely difficult to find in the dark.
That’s not too bad at all for the UI, pretty similar to most tail-switch lights really and the interface sounds pretty easy to figure out once a user gets used to having two side-switches.
Screwed bezel, not press fit I take it then? I never owned the 46R.
I thought I remembered at least the 46R being modded quite a bit, hope that trend continues with the 50.
This is actually the one huge complaint I have with Zebralights. I don’t even want to talk about what I had to do to get mine to stay in after the bezel ring failed - its embarrassing. Of course I like everything else on the damn light too much to bother sending it away for 5+ weeks to get repaired so nobody to blame but myself.
+2; there are too many 21700s on the way to waste money going backwards to charge them.
I’ll also ask for battery fitment parameters/tolerances here whether I’m the only enthusiast left on the planet running protected cells or not.
‘Someday’ :zipper_mouth_face: …forum members will take back charge of their own marketplaces and demand only the latest technologies or well thought out/accommodating designs. In the meantime, I suppose that never-before-witnessed control elsewhere has saved my spending of late.
Sincere best of luck with the light nonetheless.
Interested. If it has a TRUE Moonlight (1 lumen or less) and if it has a illuminated power button. The pocket clip alignment world to find the switches but in some cases it still moves. An illuminated power switch will solve this. Or an Olight S1R/S2R Baton II style unmovable clip. And what about Luminus SST-20 emitters for better optical performance?
I wish it jaf illuminated switch ot at least a white power switch. I always remove the pocket clips on my flashlights because I dont use them and they add bulk to the flashlight.