making a small batch of Texas Avenger "TA" Drivers fully tested running Bistro or Narsil, Clicky or E-switch, SIR800

the locator LED/sideswitch LED can be used with tailswitch lights without a problem, that was its main purpose

for lights with no tailswitch a locator LED should have a pretty high resistor, like Texas_Ace wrote to get low parasitic drain, you can still get brighter that trits with parasitic drain af a few 100uA

My drivers arrived today, they look very nice.

Thank you for doing this, can’t wait to put them in to use.

EDIT : Just finished putting one of the drivers in a Skilhunt H02, re-flowed the original emitter to a Noctigon MCPCB, the UI is great with lots of options and the ramping is fast and smooth.

It get very hot very fast :smiley:

My driver arrived today, and is already in his pretty host : Nitecore HC30
What a wonderful UI ! I love the ramping, really intuitive, and fast at the same time !
Thank you very much once again Lexel !

Received mine today, as well, that was quicker than expected, thanks.

Thank you Lexel, received the drivers Tuesday!

Excellent work :slight_smile:

Got mine installed & working. Convoy L6, inspite of discovering my led is in backwards (reverse polarity).

Still trying to figure out how to get ramping to continue in the same direction. It seems to want to change directions.

Edit: nevermind about ramp direction, got it now.

Also, can I switch it from initially coming on at turbo with rear clicky, to the 2 blinks?

Thanks

Is this normal?

!!

Maybe it’s on a moon setting?

How do you turn the light off with the side switch, press and hold?

The illumination is way lower than moon or firefly. If it’s normal, it’s not a bad way for me to tell if I have turned tailswitch off, since I don’t have illum switches.

Side switch functions:

Press and hold = ramping(up or dn)

Quick press = on / off (with memory)

Double click = turbo

Here’s how mine works… your results might vary.

Convoy L6

TA Driver Infineon LDO Tactical 65° with Narsil V1.2 ?

From off…
–1/2 press of rear tail switch = momentary on (in Turbo) for signaling or instant glimpses.

From off…
-Full click on rear tail switch turns on to Turbo.

Side switch then controls:

>-Click = On / Off (with memory).

>-Double click = Turbo.

>-Click and hold = Ramping up or dn.

>-Long pause (1.5+ seconds) between Click & Holds continues ramping in the same direction.

>-Short pause between Click & Holds reverses ramping direction.

>-Short side switch click , turns off at any point in ramping and saves that level in memory, for when side switch turns it back on.

>-Tail click to off, or lockout, erases brightness level memory.

How do I program tail switch modes?…

A) Turbo (default)
B) 2 blinks
C) Nothing until side switch is pressed.

v1.2 has low voltage protection, but no temp control. If you do have temp control, then you have v1.4 and no lvp.

I understood it that tail switch modes had to be programmed into the firmware. They are not user adjusted. Lexel told me it was a few lines of code that had to be altered to get the tactical setting.

I specified temperature control, and they were marked as such, so I guess it is V1.4.

I misunderstood those tail switch options as being user defined. Turbo is the only way to have a momentary function, so its not bad in that respect. And a quick click of the side switch turns it off.

Looking across my acreage, I can quick scan a lot of ground in momentary mode in a second or two with it.

The ramping is awesome, and a lot more user friendly to fine tune the levels than I expected.

The faint LED could be an Infineon vs SIR800 difference, guess we’ll see.

Thanks

I agree with this assessment. I have had this happen to me as well with 7135’s on 2S drivers.

new batch is almost ready to go I said I start ordering stuff when 30 drivers are requested and will order parts for 50

There’s only one 7135 on there so it looks pretty easy to swap out. Maybe you have an old driver you don’t need that you can strip a 7135 off of. If not, MTN Electronics sells them super cheap.

I actually have a stip of 7135’s, just have to get some more practice in before attempting. I think dealing with these itty bitty parts is how I messed up my original driver (resistor mod), total noob, and not steady 63 yr old hands. BTW, there’s 8 7135 on one side and the single on the other….???

Oh yeah, post #102 shows the backside. So 9 in total. I wish I knew how to narrow it down to find the faulty one.

Removing all of them and cleaning the pads is not too hard, but soldering new ones would be a pain by hand. You’d need a hot air reflow station and solder paste to do it quick and easy.

Its some pretty bad luck. If you really want to fix it, maybe ask Richard at MTN if he could do it.

I hope it’s a rare occurrence.

Package delivered today. I’ll force myself to wait for the solder station I ordered that’s scheduled for delivery wednesday before starting on the lvp mods for the 2s light but will install one as-is in the D01. I’ve been searching for another grey D01 but the major sources are out of stock so it will remain 1s3p until I find another, make a 2s battery tube, or cut and extend the 1s tube.

Wait what? :open_mouth: Grey battery tube for a D01? :smiling_imp: