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    Budgetlightforum.com 
This is a rabbit hole of lighting tech.

I read the site and ... Now all my flashlights MUST run open source firmware.

Buy a flashlight with the Anduril UI and you will understand. (search on amazon)

With my flashlights:

- press and hold the power button to ramp up brightness from zero

- press and hold again to ram down brightness

- click twice to get the maximum brightness from the light (mostly)

there are lots of other modes available, designed to be harder to stumble into, plus customizations you can add.

Also, the good flashlights have an always-on dim green LED that lets you find the flashlight during a power outage.



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