I am in contact with Intl-outdoor so they should become availiable fully assembled from him
Cool.
Cool!
But I would like to choose my own leds of course, so I would not mind an upload on Oshpark too (or don’t they do such thin boards?)
Oshpark 2Oz are 0.8mm thin, this should be enough
on chineese fab on panel I would go to 0.6mm
also made a programming adapter for my future drivers
same order in 2 Oz!
Fits those pogo pins from banggood
A part of me wants to call it overkill, but that aux LED board with its own regulator and balance resistors sounds sweet.
Lexel, can you clarify, which one is expected to become available assembled from intl-outdoor?
Thanks, :sunglasses: , ordered! 
has not been decided yet
The resistors and the LDO costs in serial production less than 20 cents so why not stick it on it
Of course a sort of LVP like I am planning on my tail boards would be possible as well, but that costs like 0.6$ more
Way to go!
But pogo pins do need some support, they are long, thin and bendy. Which is why I suggested a 3D printed support.
Perhaps a big dollop of hot glue might suffice.
Back in the day my kit was designed for ATE on a GenRad/Teradyne bed of nails, with guided probe for detailed stuff. Everything made extremely precisely and solidly.
Not necessary for a torch. Just a common flashing interface.
I love it
Thanks for the review, loving the aux lights!
I fear, you won’t have fun soldering pogo pins aligned with your design, lexel, something like this with a notch for automatic alignment might be better. Was still difficult to solder though, especially with iron, I was successful with hot air finally. But hot air might cause problems with a 2-sided design.
A SIM card connector (mini, micro, nano) could work, but is OTT. And no room.
Pogo pins onto vias or pads is the obvious way forward, at the moment.
This has to come, since MCUs will have no external pins to clip on to, even if there is keep-out area for a clip.
I’m hoping Hank might offer a flashing kit too, but I don’t know if that will happen. For now, I could stand to get some pogo pins (or really any pins) to put into my ribbon cable, since I haven’t had a chance to try out the flashing pads yet.
such a cool light, hope it won’t be too pricey. thanks for the first look
Really hope this will be available in the new white surface as well as a floody optic option!
And red or amber aux LEDs. We can always dream can’t we? 
The pink surface-mount LEDs are nice. I built a clock with those… one LED per pixel.
I’d love to see a mixed LED board with two resistors to adjust the relative brightness of two channels. They’d both still be on at the same time, like the current design, but the colors could be a lot more interesting. Like doing half-and-half with royal blue and photo red emitters, to make a really vivid purple.
But TBH, I don’t care all that much about the aux LEDs. I’d much rather have the option to get a primary MCPCB with two LH351D 4000K 90CRI and two LH351D 5000K 90CRI emitters. I think that would be just about ideal, both on the D4S and the original D4. This sort of mixing doesn’t work as well on a triple, but a quad is a perfect host for it.
Purple anno and purple LED’s (blue/red)!
Or 2700K/3000K and 5000K. The problem with that is there is no optic for that. Mule only?
Er, it could do 3000K + 5000K if you wanted it to be a 4000K light. There’s no problem with the optic which would interfere with that.
I want it closer to 4500K though, and neither the 219c nor the LH351D comes in that tint. So I may try to mix 4000K and 5000K emitters. Plus, it’ll probably look a bit better than a native 4500K emitter would anyway, because tint mixing is cool that way.
Or I could go even wider like I did on my wide-spectrum BST, with four different tints ranging from 3000K to 6500K, but that’s trickier to get right, looks weirder up-close, and makes rainbow shadows. The result on mine is pretty fantastic though, and it really makes colors look vivid.