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

I guess I’m the first guy who likes narsil ramping, but hates blinkies. Lol

Hey, I got my first config change done! I switched to mode set. So at least I know something works. Lol.

Sure enough, blinkies don’t work now that I’m in “modes”. Turn on blinkies and they work now. I turned them back off.

Okay, so I switched back to ramping. Now when I triple click I have no strobe! Yay!

I get what looks like a battery check. 3 blinks pause 9 blinks. That’s my current battery voltage so this must be battery check mode.

Yeah, that’s what the instructions say it is.

To get into strobe modes double click to get in turbo then double click again and you enter strobe modes

Triple click always get you in batt check

Your right, I forgot how to get into the strobe setting.

Strobes are still turned on now that I’m in ramping mode. I’ll update my post on the Q8 thread.

Which narsil operation instruction manual should we be using. On one of my 21mm 1S Narsil boards that is running Narsil 1.4. I couldn’t find 1.4 instructions so I printed out v1.3a instructions. But I found v1.1 instructions fit better, but not perfect.

edit: Ok I found the manual for v1.3 That seems to match up. I got my Indicator LED working in my skilhunt H03. But when I toggle on Locator LED feature it doesn’t stay on when the light is off. Am I missing something? Is the Locator LED feature for a separate physical LED from the indicator LED, maybe for the tail switch?

http://www.metronixlaser.de/bilder/flashlight/Narsil_Triple_Manual_v1-3.pdf

v1.4 and 1.3 UI is the same so no new Manual for it

“When the Locator feature is enabled, the LED can be temporarily turned OFF (only in Mode Sets)”

the changes are the options when being flashed

I guess you have to ask Tom E, how ecaxtly it works

Rep+ for Lexel, the drivers are at my house few days already. Everything went so smooth, from start to finish.

The first to find its home was the D01 driver, all was fine until small mishap that shorted something and messed up the driver. Im still trying to troubleshot what went wrong, Lexel was very informative so i hope that there is chance for this one to work as intended again.

Today i installed the second driver into the L6 (i had different plans and didn’t wanted to mod the light until i get the XHP50.2 and the SMO reflector but i am impatient) and i am impressed, the L6 is so cool with the ramping and all those fancy things narsil has.

I did some quick tests with green Efest 26650’s 4200mAh and i got these numbers:

Lumens estimate 5700 at start, 5400 at 30 sec; 120kcd
11.5A delivered to the LED with batteries at 4.19V

Interesting thing is that even with Samsung 25R @ 3.45V (times 2 of course) the light is brighter than stock, at that point the led was getting 5.4A, 400mA more than stock. I did not tested with my Efest 4200mAh 26650’s, was to lazy to drain them to that level but it is good to know that even with almost drained batteries it will maintain good brightness.

After installing the driver in my Courui D01, doing 20 awg spring bupasses, swapping in an xm-l2 u3 3d emitter, and sanding down the centering ring I have started to like it a lot more. Pleasant surprise to find that the tailboard had holes and pads just the right size and location to accommodate the wires. I need to do more adjustment to the reflector to focus the beam better but I’m confident I can get it to a point where I’ll be satisfied with it. I did have a bit of a problem initially and the light wouldn’t work. The problem was due to a wire partially broken at the switch. Once I re-soldered the wires it worked great. :+1: Nice driver. Thank you. :beer:

As posted previously I had installed the driver with the infineon fet (60°c step-down) in my Courui D01 (bypassed springs xml2 u3 3d). Sometimes I use a flashlight rather than an overhead or nightstand light and decided to use the courui. With 3x freashly charged 30Q tailstsanding and in turbo mode after more than 20 minutes the light’s head was warm but not uncomfortably so and it had not stepped down. I was surprised that it seems to dissipate heat so effectively. Just thought it was worthy of comment.

oops, edit, wrong thread…

Any 17mm boards left?

This is a long over old batch. He’s on his 4th batch now. Check here.

I would be interested in a 30 mm for the L6, still available?

please follow the 4. Batch topic

there are still enough parts to build more drivers
I have ordered more 30mm from Oshpark that should arrive here soon, then i can build more of 30mm size

Would I still be able to get a 21MM for my Skilhunt H03?

I got here 1 21mm for skilhunt already assembled left

Excellent! I sent you a PM.

Still have parts for a 30mm driver for a Convoy L6? If not, what is the ETA for the parts?

What temperature would you set for a L6 and what stepdown time? Do you enable both step down times and a temperature stepdown, or do you usually enable just one?

Looks like for the convoy L6 with two batteries, I would need a 30mm driver with a zener and LDO mod as well as a large spring. Anything else needed? Could I just use the existing wiring? If not, could I pay to have some wiring thrown in?

Hi,

I have ordered today more parts from Mouser
This week there should be a delivery of 30mm boards from Oshpark

A L6 I would set to 60°C or 3 minutes step down time
NarsilM got temp or timed, not yet both at the same time so far

30mm LDO for e-switch lights
existing wires work well

This thread is dead. We are on the 5th batch now.