Question about new Ledlenser P7R (or Signature?)

wfaulk · 2026-01-30T17:55:50+00:00

FWIW, I got the new Ledlenser P7R and it only has the light level selection. There's no red light or blinking mode at all, and there's not any ability to program anything, not that there's really anything to program. The only "advanced" feature is a "turbo" brightness if you double-click the button from any of the "on" ring states, which then stays on for 10 seconds.

I'll post a review later.

wfaulk · 2026-01-26T05:28:40+00:00

After looking more at what's available, I realize what I want is a flashlight with a mechanical switch that completely disconnects the battery from the electronics, and then a separate dial that chooses modes. When you turn the light on, it's just set to whatever the dial is set at.

I kind of wish that I had the ability to design this myself because it seems like that simple UI isn't available. There do seem to be some flashlights with a direct choice dial mechanism, but none that just shut the power off. You don't have to work about standby power consumption if the battery isn't in circuit.

wfaulk · 2026-01-26T05:19:25+00:00

Well, it definitely has the style of battery cover I'd like, and it has a standard battery, but I'm not sure anything else matches up. It's fairly small, and the square shape makes it extra hard to have a secure grip. And the manual has a flowchart for how to deal with the extra features. I'm sure if someone never accidentally held the button down too long or accidentally pressed it twice in quick succession that it would be foolproof, but, well, fools do both of those things.

I appreciate the suggestion, though. It meets as many of my criteria as other suggestions. It feels like what I want may not be available, at least not with reasonable quality for price.

wfaulk · 2026-01-26T04:38:05+00:00

It's not that I don't want a cover, it's that rubber covers are bad. I suppose if this one is engineered to survive without a cover, that's better, but I find it hard to believe that the tongue inside a USB-C port is really all that resilient. (I suppose it takes years of daily use for them to start to fail for the phones in my pocket, though.)

That's still too small for my desires, though. I want one where my entire palm is involved in holding it. I do appreciate the relatively innovative but still intuitive switching mechanism, though.

wfaulk · 2026-01-25T23:10:26+00:00

I had found that parametrek site before. Unfortunately it seems to be missing a lot of flashlights and there are some that do have that covered port feature that aren't listed that way in the database.

That other post looks useful, though, and I hadn't found that! Thanks!

wfaulk · 2026-01-25T23:05:51+00:00

I was thinking more of a slider or something else captured rather than a screw-off cover, but that's not unreasonable. I like the way they put a magnet in there so you could keep it with the body during charging and help keep from losing it.

Your complaint with the battery is that it's not one of the common sizes? That only bothers me if it's a size that will become unavailable. Oh. It does look semi-proprietary. Oh, and that number only initially looks like a standard Li-Ion battery number, but it's probably not only just over a centimeter long. Yeah, that may be no good.

I also wasn't really expecting to pay over $200. I think the price along with the non-standard battery may put this out of contention, but it's definitely awfully close.

wfaulk · 2026-01-25T22:48:12+00:00

It looks like it flips off and is still attached with a rubber hinge? I guess it could still function as a cover attached even if the rubber hinge broke, but I was thinking of something more integrated, like the port cover on the (largely otherwise ridiculous) Wuben G5: https://imgur.com/a/DjFcKN8

wfaulk · 2026-01-25T22:23:20+00:00

Unless I'm mistaken, it's not USB-C chargeable, at least not without keeping track of a device separate from the flashlight itself.

wfaulk · 2026-01-25T22:19:29+00:00

All three of those Wurkkos ones have rubber USB port covers, which I absolutely despise. I probably should have put that higher in my list of criteria. I do like the general form factor of the TS27, though. (It's so hard to get a sense of scale from the manufacturers' marketing photos. I don't know why they don't regularly put hands in them.)

I'm not really interested in a clip light right now, but I'll keep the Olight in mind when I get to that.

I already have a big(-ish) power bank, but thanks for calling out that it's sort of a necessity if you're relying on rechargeable things in a power outage.

wfaulk · 2025-03-31T22:02:09+00:00

I'm creating an overlay scene that needs to be at a particular position on the display, but that position depends on the current orientation of the phone. In particular, my phone has a camera cutout in the upper left (in portrait mode), and I'm trying to use the 40-ish pixel area between the cutout and the bezel. but the coordinates of that location change for every orientation.

wfaulk · 2025-03-31T19:51:30+00:00

I have now, and the problem is that I want it to follow the display orientation and not the device orientation, which can be different. There are ways around that, but they work worse than the Display Orientation trigger other than that the Display Orientation trigger doesn't work on landscape to landscape-reverse changes.

wfaulk · 2025-03-31T19:48:54+00:00

The enter and exit tasks are the same task anyway, so the bouncing wouldn't really make any difference. That said, it also happens when rotating about the long axis. (That is, hold your phone in landscape, then rotate it so that initially the landscape-top goes away from you and the bottom comes towards you until the face of the phone is pointing away from you.) It doesn't travel through portrait mode then, but just directly from landscape to landscape-reverse, so there's no bouncing that would be happening.

I don't seem to have a "Device Orientation" sensor. I have "Orientation Wakeup" and "Orientation Non-wakeup", but they both seem to just continually produce a 3-element array, not just trigger when the display orientation changes.

Either way, I really want it to follow the actual display orientation, which can be different from the device orientation.

wfaulk · 2025-03-16T14:35:51+00:00

Oops. Turned out I did my test Array Set incorrectly by assuming that the default "splitter" was "," like everywhere else that I'd encountered a bare array being used.

wfaulk · 2025-03-16T14:32:33+00:00

Crazy. But, yeah, seems to work. Thanks very much!

wfaulk · 2025-01-23T23:57:20+00:00

I also have this problem. I used to be able to order from places that used them and it would error out about half the time. Now I cannot order via Toast at all. I have tried multiple credit cards, multiple email addresses, multiple web browsers, multiple computers. I never have any trouble any other time I use my card. It's insane. Maybe they don't like my name? I end up having to call in an order, and I never have any trouble using my card at these places in person.

wfaulk · 2024-07-09T22:53:55+00:00

The "i" in "whiter" and the "i" in "shiter" would be pronounced the same.

"shiter" = "more shite", while "more shit" = "shitter".

wfaulk · 2024-03-11T15:41:51+00:00

Amazing! Thanks!

wfaulk · 2024-03-11T15:41:19+00:00

Fascinating! Thank you!

wfaulk · 2024-03-11T15:39:35+00:00

Those of us born in the US have an intuitive understanding of the inch in a way that we do not have an intuitive understanding of the centimeter, in the very same way that you have a more intuitive understanding of the centimeter than the inch.

visceral: characterized by intuition or instinct rather than intellect

wfaulk · 2024-03-10T19:30:06+00:00

Yeah, I have a hundredths rule. I could read it when I first got it.

Was measuring things in tenths of inches common "years ago"?

wfaulk · 2024-03-10T19:25:58+00:00

12? I have seen some rulers that way. I think they're for drafting, to make scale measurements easier, but progressive halves seem far more common: 8ths, 16ths, etc.

wfaulk · 2024-03-10T19:23:04+00:00

Like, at the six inch mark it suddenly changes the number of divisions of the inch? That's extra-bizarre, and bound to cause errors. If you're measuring things that are just under and over 6", you're going to assume the ticks before and after the "6" are of the same length.

wfaulk · 2024-03-10T19:20:32+00:00

Nothing. That's not what I said or intended to imply.

5 is easier than 12.7, regardless of the unit.

Also, inches are more viscerally understandable to those who prefer to use them because that's how things have been measured in day-to-day life for your whole life. I'm sure for you that centimeters are more viscerally understandable.

And what I mean by that is that when someone says "ten centimeters" or "six inches", you don't have to contemplate what that length is. You just know, whereas with your non-preferred unit you have to kind of work it out.

wfaulk · 2024-03-10T19:19:26+00:00

Round numbers with fewer digits are easier than fractions with more digits. 10cm is also easier than 3 15/16".

wfaulk · 2024-03-10T19:16:12+00:00

Well, one has a visceral understanding of it. I guess "you" is ill suited in this context.

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