Can’t the AT84 and little more expensive and newer AT841 be seen ad future MCUs, more pins, more channels anx better power usage for the 841 if I understand Mike C correctly.
Looking forward to seeing what the team thinks of the Proto 3 lights. Thanks for the pics Tom! Those comparison beamshots are amazing as well. The “grouping” is obviously much tighter with the Q8 than the Securitying. Did they thicken the shelf or did the team decide it was ok with the shelf thickness from Proto 2?
Yes, I do believe the hot spot in the pics is bout accurate to what I'm seeing. It doesn't mean though the 4X SRK clone throws much better. Found in my notes back on July 5th when I did the full mod to that light I measured 52 kcd, but that was at 5,450 measured lumens @30 secs and ~16.0A tail (clamp meter). I never could get as much amps out of that light as I could with the Q8 prototypes.
This is good news you received your Q8, The Miller - bout time you get a look
Ehm, I see a lot of white space in the post
So at first I thought there could be a funny pic
But doing this quoting thing, nothing shows up and you have been making lots of drivers with Narsil right?
Did you PM Tom about it?
Ok. He said blink mode disable is not working. I duplicated it and found the cause while in ramping, but in mode set operation, it seems to work ok: all blink modes can be disabled. There's something else though I'm seeing that needs further looking in to. I thought changing from ramping to mode sets and visa versa the blink setting of disable, strobe, all blink modes was not "sticking", staying in effect. I have to look into this more.
So far for ramping blink disabling not working, it's an easy fix, but of course this means updating the firmware.
I’m afraid I noticed this last night on my L6 with Tx Avenger driver running Narsil v1.2. I also added a lighted side switch which shares a common ground wire with the LEDs.
I just couldn’t get the blinky mode to turn off.
I don’t know if it’s due to the lighted switch or just a quirk in Narsil.
Does the Q8 switch share a ground wire with the green LEDs?
I was just about to snip the lighted switch led circuit and see if that fixed it or not. If so, then I will try and go with a higher resistor value for the switch leds and see if everything still works like it should.
I develop product control software/firmware in the BioMed industry, even for treadmills, so I understand the risks, just can't avoid them all.
Must be the same bug. For the ground, the ground is the ground - guess you can consider it shared, whether there are two separate wires or not, it will be shared when it gets on board the driver PCB.
In a flashlight, ground is Batt-, Batt- is the ground, and it typically is going through the battery tube, then to the driver, and many times throughout the flashlight head - all depends on un-anodized contact surfaces.
The switch LED and this strobe/blinky mode bug are two very separate issues. No matter what you do to the switch LED, it will not effect the strobe modes.
There is no GO given with only 3 of 7 prototypes/samples received by the team.
Thorfire is notified a revision of Narsil is needed for mass production.
All who have a Narsil operated light are hereby called upon to click till your thumb is blue in search of issues for this is the time to get the last little issues fixed