alpg88
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Do kinds under 20 in USA even know what sos is. i'm sure some do, but i doubt most know.
Posts like this make me wish there was a 🤔 reaction to comments.Do kinds under 20 in USA even know what sos is. i'm sure some do, but i doubt most know.
Do kinds under 20 in USA even know what sos is. i'm sure some do, but i doubt most know.
Yes, but ya gotta love the tint and color rendering.A muzzle flash has an extremely short runtime 😋
@fenix store
Strobe is useless to keep 'bad persons' away from you. That strobe is confusing someone is a fairy tail, since decades.
The only 'strobe' that may help is an LED incapacitator. But even not everyone will be confused with this!
If you have the feeling to use the strobe of your flashlight the recommendation is run, run as fast as you can! That is the only way you may be save.
And now coming to SOS, this is also starting getting uncommon. SOS was replaced 1999 by GMDSS, young people start not knowing it anymore...
Even others are thinking in the same way whwn I read the answert! Why coming up always with the same useless stuff as life safer blabla....?
Guys, trust me on this.... Get her something a lot more romantic than a flashlight for Christmas.
I have no problem with SOS mode on a flashlight, provided it has it's own way of accessing, so you don't have to cycle through it every time when changing modes. I seldom use strobe or SOS, but something like clicking the side switch twice for strobe and 3 times for SOS is fine.
If a person fell while hiking and had a broken leg and was trying to signal an aircraft, or someone else who was out of earshot, SOS could be a lifesaver, where strobe wouldn't necessarily indicate that you need help or are just a kid fooling around with a flashlight. There are many similar situations where SOS could be used for someone in distress.
Most of my modern lights with SOS these days have a separate command to access, so I like having it there if needed.
Please provide 1 DOCUMENTED incident where the SOS feature on ANY flashlight was used for a save of any person?
Strobe can certainly be used to gain attention, and I myself have used, and do use strobe for that.
Viewed from another perspective, SOS is merely strobe/flashing with a pattern. Though, in this day and age, quite likely many who see such flashing won't have a clue about the meaning of Morse code.
It's fairly obvious, though, that a flashing beacon of some sort is more likely to attract the eye than a plain, flat light. (Same sort of logic behind a waving train headlight, or "flashing the brights" on a motor vehicle, or any other deliberate signalling where a plain steady light could get lost in the "noise.")
This discussion started as me requesting Fenix to STOP, in the name of all that is holy, putting an SOS mode on their flashlights
Here's another example. There's a fishing spot right down here at the river near where I live. You have to walk down a steep embankment to get to it. If I fell down that hill and broke an ankle or leg, I probably couldn't get back up the trail. There is regular barge traffic that I could signal SOS, who would likely call the county authorities. If they just saw strobe mode, they would likely think nothing of it.
Just because one person doesn't use a feature, doesn't mean that others will not.
I know you are not, it is the OP that does. stobe, sos, ........ read the first postI'm not saying SOS is for personal security, ............
I'm sure SOS has been used before, and saved lives, whether it was by radio transmission, by light, by Morse Code, or whatever. If you want documented proof, you'll have to do your own research on that.