Ive noticed that I have a growing number of budget lights and many of them are linear. As I learn more about lights, I think I want to focus more on quality than quantity. I would like to find a few nice lights that have switch-mode power supply/buck-boost drivers. I just received a couple of Zebra lights that are making me rethink how I want to build my collection. I just order a TN12 Pro and think I should look for a higher quality thrower. Any suggestions?
What top5 or favorite lights with quality components with switch-mode power supply/buck-boost drivers?
I think we have seen a shift in the budget lights moving from linear to buck or boost … and I have to credit Simon / Convoy for doing that. Now that more efficient regulators are becoming the norm, the next thing I would like to see is more dynamic range in those regulators and better step down behavior. I have to hand it to fireflylite for having stable ultra-low-low modes (but these are not budget lights). I was never into this until I was, and started hiking more and more with ‘just the minimum needed to not step on snake’.