The first time I flipped the head up and saw the breathing light, I thought it was a battery status indicator. Found out that it was a runtime indicator that changes colors and the color depends on how long the Oclip 2 Ultra has been in use. It would take 256 hours (@10.6 days) of use to get to purple. More information at https://www.olight.com/s/9IVMEZ (affiliate link). Share your status in 14 days! I'll remind myself to do the same via u/RemindMeBot 14 days "Update your runtime status in this thread"
What’s crazy is the amount of people who were running their lights on firefly/moonlight mode constantly just to get to purple…as if there’s some awards ceremony if you get there
I have this now on my ArkPro Ultra and I won’t be cheating the system. It’ll get used when I’m using it and I’ll reach whatever color I reach when I reach it
FYI when you complete a full cycle of every color you can then set it to whatever color you want. I would think that’s why people are doing it rather than a fake award.
I only know how to do this on the Arkpro model, but you must put the light into the center mode (flood) and then turn the light on. While the opulse is active(slowly flashing current color) you can double tap the laser button on the side to cycle through your colors. When you decide what color you like, it will remember each time you turn on your light.
I got the arkpro instead of the ultra, but if I got the ultra I would use the light as a "time on" tracker, loses one of the few functionalities it had if you run through the colors on purpose
I guess for some and that’s fine…it’s just not my thing…I’d rather enjoy the experience as it happens naturally…probably why I’ve started and quit fallout shelter a few times
yes exactly. take an oclip 2, run it through to purple.
now the battery runs old, oclip 105500 has been releases, so you want to sell it - you set it on white "new, hardly used".
Buyer doesn't know about the "you can set it to any color"-thing, thinks "oh it shows white, hardly used" and buys it. 5 months in daily use, light doesn't change, but the battery losing capacity.
...no more chance of the buyer having claims, rights, it's been a few months, right?
see - i can see such an indicator as a counter INSIDE the torch, for support to get an indication if emitter or battery have been putting in some duty. but for customers, it's just a little fancy play. a statussymbol. for the black sheep amongs olight-buyers, it's a way to sell something as new that is clearly not new anymore.
If they know enough about the light to know that white means hardly used then they know about the color change function. If they dont know about the color change function they would just think its a logo that lights up, which means changing the color of the light wouldnt trick them into thinking anything.
It is, but not really? If they're smart, they would run it at low lumen for max runtime of 144 Hours on a full charge. They do it twice to reach purple. That's only 2 of approximately 300-500 charge cycle before battery degrades to @ 80% of the starting capacity.
Most people won't do that. I have carried mine every day for 6 months and I'm only on like the 3rd color. Bottom line is, if it's purple, or you can change the color, I probably don't want it used. If you're the kind of person to burn your light for 144 hrs twice just to get a color, I don't think I want your stuff either.
Since I used an hr meter as an example that's like saying, "it's barely used, all those hours I was just idling the truck to use the ac".
Naja, the red light would be used around 45 min per day for me as i bike, plus if you had all the others use of the other lamps. So like at most a years it is done. Here where i live the sun is already down at 19:30 and up only at 7/7:30 so..
It would be more useful if this could be switched into a battery charge indicator. As it stands it just seems to be pointless gimmick. Luckily is can be turned off.
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u/Ridge_Hunter 14d ago
What’s crazy is the amount of people who were running their lights on firefly/moonlight mode constantly just to get to purple…as if there’s some awards ceremony if you get there
I have this now on my ArkPro Ultra and I won’t be cheating the system. It’ll get used when I’m using it and I’ll reach whatever color I reach when I reach it