Would you buy a light with this user interface?

[chadvone]

@Enderman

@chadvone

Then your in luck. This UI has 2 modes. Your chosen LOW and Your chosen HIGH. You don’t need to do anything more to enjoy your 2 modes after you first set them up.

C CC P is all you you need to remember.

All the other electronics necessary for all the programming simply wastes space on a PCB and also complicates the circuitry, making it more expensive to produce and also more prone to failure.
I’ve had even simple drivers malfunction before because cold temperatures were messing with the mode switching circuitry.
A foolproof no-BS design is cheaper and more reliable.

Yeah, I can tell you like it foolproof no-BS

Any flashlight drivers with built in USB charging?

I haven’t been able to find any drivers for sale that have built in charging, even though there are several flashlights on the market with USB charging now. Anyone heard of any? (other than the BLF lantern project which has a USB charging driver) In the future I plan to make a USB rechargeable flashlight that can also take regular cells (not the double-ended proprietary stuff) Some flashlights are already like this, the charging circuit is in the head where the driver is, not in the tail…

Random idea for multi-die LED flashlights

An EDC flashlight with a 9 or 21 die configuration similar to this: [image] -With the center die on max and everything else off it would become a long distance thrower with a tight beam -With all the dies on low power it would have high efficiency since each die would run at low current -With all the dies on high power it would put out a ton of lumens Of course there is currently no good LED for this application, but imagine something like an XHP70.2 with 9 instead of 4 dies, an the center …

Does this type of switch exist?

A switch that is like a momentary push button, but when you press down it will disconnect and reconnect the circuit almost instantly, and when released does nothing, just remains connected. I can't seem to find a proper name to search for this kind of switch, if it even exists. In other words it is an NC (normally closed) push button momentary switch, that disconnects and reconnects in a single push down action. Usually to get this result you need to use a regular push button NC momenta…

If you don’t like that is fine, You have stated you don’t like it. Please don’t start a war in this thread.