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Hey Richard! I wanted to put in a request that you carry the Astrolux MF-01 in 219c and XP-G3 flavors as part of your stock when it becomes available! I think it would be a good replacement for the M43 if it’s no longer available.

Was going to ask about a product here but I guess better to email MTN? Looks like the last post/reply from him here was back in September.

It doesn’t hurt to ask here as there are many folks very familiar with Richards products.

OK I also just emailed an inquiry…. If they will soon be stocking some XP-L2 5000K bare LED’s.

Okay, a question about his stock and reordering is something only he can answer. Lol. I thought you had a different type of question.

I don’t know if he’s even working this close to holidays.

Does anyone have information about how to activate moonlight mode for a 17mm FET driver (standard firmware)?
Specs say to solder pin #2 to ground. Is this referring to the pin on the fet or the microcontroller?
Also, will this affect the other modes?
What is the output for moonlight mode on a fet driver? I’m hoping to get my light down to < 1 lumen for reading in bed.

first post in over a month. Think of all the work Richard is able to get done without attending to this thread :wink:


Pin #2 on the attiny13a. There should be a little dot at pin 1.

Thanks for the info :+1:
Now I get to play the game called “Don’t bridge the pins”.

FET moon is … generally not very good. Usually bright and/or highly voltage-sensitive. The details depend on the exact hardware though, and which method is used to implement moon.

I think jt_bennett is referring to Richards 17mm FET driver.

Yep that’s the one. Tried the bridge (pin 2 to ground) and ended up with 1 mode (high). I must have bridged pins 3 and 4 via the trace. Cleaned up the solder so that pins 3 and 4 aren’t bridged and ended up with 1 mode again but this time it was low mode. I must done something to the microcontroller by running voltage with pins 3 and 4 bridged. Here’s a pic of how it ended up. Everything looks good except it only has low now.

Is there any hope of recovering this driver?

I’m thinking that a FET + 7135 may be the way to go if moonlight mode is wanted.

Update: I got it to work! —> I removed the copper wire and soldered the pin with a “2” next to it to ground. Moonlight mode is now activated. Moon mode with this driver is not super-low (like firefly) but provides enough usable light to comfortably read books, maps etc in the dark without compromising night vision.

I have one of the FET+7135 on a triple mod and it has a very nice ML.

Thanks for the advice!
I’ll have to try that next.

I think I see the problem. The pin closest to the ground ring is marked with a 2 and has a tiny pad (on the right of your picture) bridge that to ground.

I think lion42 hit the nail on the head.

Mtn descriptions.

Clicky Pin Functions. Soldering these numbered pins to ground will enable these features:

2 enables moonlight mode.

3 reverses mode order from the standard ascending (low to high) to descending (high to low).

It does say pins, I had to go back and check.

It probably should have said Numbered pads (hint Richard).

Try gounding the number 2 pad to ground which would be pin 5.

Also if you want option 3 you would solder pin 3 to pin 4, 4 is already connected to ground.

So I just received a notification of activity on this thread today (February 28th) and it looks like the last activity was on January 30th....

I think I just need to start checking in here every day since it seems like notifications have been flaky lately.

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Going forward I am going to label all of them by pin number; the old "Pin 5 = 2; Pin 3=3" nomenclature harkens back to the 105C/QLITE driver configuration "stars".

yeah, I got a bunch of notifications today but when I went to view them, none were current!

Glad it's not just me!

It was spam that got deleted

Bonus comment: give 17-22mm boost drivers. :slight_smile: