>>2836038Friend. So I have recently gone down this road. I might have very different requirements from you but I can at least explain what I wanted and what I am getting.
I dont care about lamp autism or numbers and don't want GNU/light. I want something thag just works. Press a button and you have light. Never breaks, doesn't need a manual, maintenance or fiddling.
I want the thing to be robust enough to handle the occassional misshap: Water tight, falling from any height you can hold it, freezing, abrasion etc.
I want it for walking, setting up camp, going for a leak and adjusting camp at night. For that I do not care about throwing wide, LASER beam to the moon, or 360 and everything above flood.
But I want very low settings. For economy and also I dont want a million lumens at night when my eyes are adjusted to the dark and if I can avoid it I dont want to annohnce my presence to every bug in a 10 mile radius.
It must light a bicycle in a pinch. So throw far enough for you to go fast but still spot things early enpugh to react and also wide enough to let you know where the corner is going to be.
Want USB C charging to charge off bicycle dynamo.
The thing must also be compact. The best light is no good if you don't have it on you because bulk. So a single 18650 cell light must do it.
I looked at offers from a few brands, many of which suggested by anons:
Convoy
Lumintop,
Wurkkos
and so on.
I found their designs remarkably similar. Unsurprising with how industry works nowadays.
I really liked the general concept or idea of the Lumintop W1. But the unprotected USB C is really yucky and it has all those features I dont really want: LGBT disco light and what not in a super complex UI.
Then that convoy stuff:
Looked at the S21 light. GNU/light. The whole business just seems to cater to light autists sho are enchanted by flashlights and compulsively bux them and kbsess over the details. I dont want to need to know about emitters and reflectors and shit to buy (...)
