I like the simplicity of hold-until-hot, but in this case I went for something a little more complicated in order to get better results.
Running a light in turbo until it feels hot enough… is kind of obnoxious and imprecise and not feasible at a factory… especially on bigger lights where it takes a long time to heat up.
The calibration function makes it much easier to get consistent behavior on each light. In theory, the company making or selling it could calibrate each unit in about 30 to 45 seconds, and avoid a lot of issues with products overheating.
If it’s not factory-calibrated though, it’s still reasonably simple for a user to do it, and faster than the hold-until-hot method. Go to thermal config mode, click enough times to tell it the current temperature, then wait a few seconds for it to fall out and go back to its previous state.
Anyway, hopefully the factory or vendor will do it so the user doesn’t have to.
I don’t know, but I hope so. I recommend it, repeatedly, to everyone who sells lights with Anduril (or RampingIOS V3, which also supports calibration). It improves things for users, and should reduce return rates for vendors, by preventing common issues.
Actually it off ALOT. When i temp checked it read 42 Celcius but room temp was 20+! And ofcourse the light was not being used. I use the time stepdown setting wich reduce turbo after 7 mins. However i like to play with the temp check, it just that i like to use it that’s all, to me it’s not a big deal anyway but having it off too much make me itchy.
I have 3 lights with NarsilM. At 23°C room temp I got, 19°, 21° and 22°. You certainly have a large deviation. Are the lights internals at room temp? Any time you use the light it gets warm internally and you have to wait maybe an hour or more for it to fully cool down even though the exterior may already be cool.
It’s very easy to set your own temp stepdown if you want to switch from timed. I did a video on just this procedure.
Like i said, the light was not being used. So i’m pretty sure the internal temp is equal to the room temperature. I know how to switch to thermal stepdown, but i don’t want to use it. Just want to check the temperature that’s all, weird hobby right?
It sounds like you have been lucky. I have seen identical lights report temperatures 20 C apart. The firmware’s default value is intentionally toward the safe end of that scale, since it’s typically better for some lights to step down early than for some lights to step down too late.
Anyway, with a range of perhaps 25 C variation from one light to another, it’s useful to have a calibration function. Aside from improving safety and consistency, it also makes the temperature check function sort of useful as a thermometer.
So guys and gals, Sofirn has told me that they’ll soon start shipping the extended battery tubes for the Q8, along with carriers which will hopefully have, as they said before, upgraded springs.
The BLF Q8 and Sofirn Q8 extended 8x18650 tubes have started to be manufactured.
I will be starting a group buy interest list to gauge interest and how many tubes you want so Sofirn can produce the right amount of carriers and tubes necessary.
