If you want to go professional, there isn't much choice. Either The Sofirn/BLF LT1 or the smaller Sofirn LT1S Pro. Both have the Anduril operating system with a very complex, but also very powerful UI, they have adjustable color temperature and brightness – both either stepped or smooth – and the LT1S Pro even has a red channel!

Yes, you could (theoretically) use an emulator for the microcontroller. I tried it a few times. And it isn't fun. It takes a lot of effort to simulate all inputs, outputs are hard to interpret and all kind of effects of the real light aren't reproduced.

In reality we flash the build onto a flashlight and try it. Sometimes it's only a prototype, disassembled. And rarely it's an actual devboard which has all relevant parts of the flashlight nicely accessible (basically the microcontroller with required electronics, regulated power supply, low power LED to see the output, several LEDs for aux and button and the switch itself).

The UI of the Manker E02 II is very similar to the Skilhunt UI. Low group with 6 (?) levels of very low light, medium level and turbo. Not sure how it could be much shorter. Same for the ZebraLight, it can't be any shorter to fit a AA.

In Germany we have them everywhere. When I look out the window I see at least 10 of them.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinweisschilder_zu_Stra%C3%9Feneinbauten

I guess tailcap current measurements with a DMM are good enough for my purposes.

Only as long as you use a clamp meter.

My review includes a photo of the disassembled head. It's an easy reflow.

The IF22A has a completely different driver.

Indeed, this is far from perfect, but on the other hand it's also not angry blue, more a pure white and without green tint. For a thrower I find it kind of acceptable.

While Luminus has announced warmer SFT-40, I'm not sure if they are even released yet.

As an indicator at night, low work quite well for me. With the latest firmware it is possible to use the aux LEDs to blink out numbers (like battery voltage). It is also possible to use the aux LEDs as a separate channel in all modes. With these features the high aux brightness isn't that bad anymore.

Awesome job! You should be hired by flashlight manufacturers as a freelancer, although I think these drivers could become very expensive and once the manufacturers start substituting components it's efficiency could decrease.

Countycomm relabels all kind of products. This is a very cheap plastic flashlight that you will find under various names. Here is an example (Type A):

https://aliexpress.com/i/1005004839059619.html

Thank you for the update! Really curious about the H150. I hope they will release it soon.

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