nquinn
(nquinn)
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I haven’t had too many lights, but I find that lots of modes is just kind of annoying because it’s hard to gauge “where you are”.
My sofirn SF14 has only 3 which works pretty well.
My H03 has 8 modes (in 2 ranges) which is just way too many.
For me, it depends on the light. For hiking/camping, I’d want a lot of focus on preserving battery life, so something like, firefly, 1-3 lumen, a camp range of maybe 20-40 lumen?, and one high mode of 100-200.
I hate seeing AA lights where the “medium” mode is over 100 lumens and only lasts 4-5 hours. That’s just impractical IMO.
For a light that will stay at home, I don’t have to worry about battery life as much.