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Great, but too many settings for a single button interface. Nothing's worse than being that guy constantly flashing between settings trying to get to the right mode on a dark night out camping. You see the same issue on many flashlights because it's difficult to manufacture in a second button on what's essentially just a tube but marketing knows people are suckers for more features. However it's even less excusable with this double barrel design. There's easily enough room for an additional button, or even a mode selector slide switch. Hell, they already added one for toggling between the LED's - if only they'd taken the idea further.
I like how I can check the physical toggle button to see if floodlight or spotlight is selected on the Acebeam M2. The Manker F14 has a single button interface where it memorises the last used emitter (a bit tricky if I forget if flood or spot was used). There's room for improvement with the interfaces for these dual beam lights.
You are so on point. I never understand why on these bigger lights there isn't just another button. Honestly most of the time I wish they just had one output of balanced runtime and lumens.
@@blakeolson2036 Agreed, I've never understood it either. Well... I kinda get it. They're taking the the easy path and saving money. Manufacturers can just buy a mass produced IC that takes care of driving the LED and also has all the flashlight functionality built in. You don't even need to bother with the wiring a switch up to these IC's, instead a switch is installed that simply disconnects all power from the battery and if the power is disconnected for under a second then the IC will register this as a request to change modes. It's why you get all those flashlights where the buttons is on the end of the battery tube, you'll notice there's no wires running to the IC. It's cheap and I actually love the simplicity, but they always cram in to many mode functions into the IC rather than just low, medium and high because it cost no more but they can advertise it as having extra functionality. If you want to have multiple buttons or different functionality then you need to go for a custom programmed microcontroller instead. And then there's the extra wiring, construction complexity, programming, custom board design... But still, it doesn't add more than $5 to the BOM, they're just being greedy. My favourite interface was one where you twisted the end cap to turn it on and the further you twisted, the brighter it got. Pure elegant simplicity!
@@charmio in the 90s my dad had this flashlight that had a rotary switch on the end cap. Man did I think it was cool. He protected that light with his life prob was top of the line back then.
Are the tail threads anodised? I heard that they might be raw. The LEP and zoomable feature of the M1 definitely make it a better performer than the M2. I'm not sure what the M1 user interface is like.
