True from a safety perspective. I'm more concerned about the annoyance of having a light break on me.How important is a button as a potential failure point on a night dive with two lights and the direction to the surface not in question?
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True from a safety perspective. I'm more concerned about the annoyance of having a light break on me.How important is a button as a potential failure point on a night dive with two lights and the direction to the surface not in question?
Yes. Yes, you are.Are we weird?
I always had this weird idea that everything electronic AND mechanical has a predetermined number of times it will function as designed - engines, washing machine, light switch. Better conserve number of times I hit that flashlight button because one day it will be the last time and I better be prepared.Maybe I was traumatized by seeing so much failing electronics in the day, and now just want to dive to the peaceful depths where I can get away from electronics.
Even if we accept your idea, so what? How much functionality are you willing to give up in exchange for a longer component life?I always had this weird idea that everything electronic AND mechanical has a predetermined number of times it will function as designed - engines, washing machine, light switch. Better conserve number of times I hit that flashlight button because one day it will be the last time and I better be prepared.
Yes, Tillytec offer that as a special option. Their lights are twist on/off. No strobe function though.I like the power levels and strobe function available with a button, are those available with twist on?
@Seepferdchencam - does your CX2 turn on by accident when you actually have it in the water? If so, how are you carrying it? Or is it just an issue when you're out of the water? If that, are you keeping in the case it comes in when you're out of the water or what?
Another vote for the "push button" - I suspect the average/vacation diver is far more likely to accidentally flood their light by twisting their light the wrong way, than to have the push-button fail on them. (And if the push button does fail? That's why you carry a backup...).I wouldn't worry about the push button being a failure point in a modern quality light in recreational diving. Push buttons can malfunction at depth on some lights but those are greater than recreational depths. The push button also allows for multiple power/strobe settings. As a back up light in cave I still prefer twist on except for the SM helmet mounted one when one handed operation is really nice. The disadvantage of twist on, as has been said, is for people who don't dive much and turn the light head the wrong way. I know, righty tighty, but some people just can't walk and chew gum so the button solves that problem.
I have- had- four DGX600 torches for several years, the twist ones. For many, twisting the head to turn on/off the light is like the USB three-direction joke, they try one direction and nothing happens, then they try the opposite direction and this is how I got one of them flooded :-(True from a safety perspective. I'm more concerned about the annoyance of having a light break on me.