Olight New Red Dot

[Fromk]

Interesting responses.

Why is being able to change the battery so important?

You never change the battery in your phone and it is much more likely to save your life.

Frankly I don't like that the life of my phone is essentially the life of its battery. At least that is monitored every day.

It's because an optic wouldn't have that kind of supervision I'd be worried about it. As others said it's also because it's a proprietary charging system meaning when Olight gives up on this and something happens to your charger you're SOL. It's also two points of failure with the internal battery, the cover's battery.

Even the idea of putting it on a .22 or something that will be gentle doesn't work for me. There are plenty of proven budget optics out there. They'll also get you many, many hours with a cheap, easily replaceable battery.