Sofirn Q8 group buy (gb closed, but try PM to Sofirn for discount)

If you flash it, remember to grab the latest version first. :slight_smile:

http://toykeeper.net/torches/fsm/

Well thank you TK, I will flash it next. :smiley:

It now makes 8659.5 lumens. :slight_smile: a gain of 2280.45 lumens over the last iteration and 2884.2 lumens more than when it came out of the box a few hours ago. Sorry it took me so long, had to eat lunch and take care of some other bidness.

Ok WUT?

Did you get that kind of brightness out of secret extreme high bin XPL-HIs or another type of LED?

I thought it was 11/100th of a volt? I was just curious as to what the threshold would be just for my own info.

You know me Blue, couldn’t leave power in the kit… I swapped in XP-L2’s. (2 5000K and 2 5700K for a mixed tint)

Can I have your V3’s :smiley:

I think I'd like to bring you lunch and a light for modding!

Ok TK, flashed with the 2018-09-07 variant, no switch light. What have I forgotten?

Sure Kawi, as you’re aware they only ran less than a minute while I tested the few stages of build.

PM me your addy, was there anything else I was supposed to be sending that I’ve forgotten? Some Samsung LH351D 5000K 80 CRI or something? Got a couple of Oslon Black Flats you can play with too if you want…

I mean if Kawi wants to trade 4 of these magic HI’s for one of his clean 70.2 de-domes i’m sure he could get a bunch :smiley:

Not sure. I just tried it on mine to be sure, and it works. You grabbed the Q8 version, right? Avrdude should report 7996 bytes flashed.

Yep, anduril.2018-09-07.BLF_Q8.hex

Edit: Just cracked it back open and checked, no wires pinched and all wires still solidly soldered. No side switch light. Not that it really matters, I’d turn it off if it was on, but it’s odd that it quit working.

Mine came this morning. Cleaned the contacts, tightened screws in head and cap and did the ceiling bounce test.

Thanks for the deal Sofirn, I really like this light.

That’s weird. At first I figured I must have broken something, but that’s the same file I just put on mine and it runs normally.

I wonder if the driver design was changed at some point, or if a wire may have come off. If you plug in the usbasp and clip it onto the MCU, but don’t flash it, does the switch light come on? On mine, it does.

Nope… .011 is eleven thousandths. Jason either made a typo or thought that too.

As far as a threshold…… A tenth of a Volt ( 4.10 vs. 4.20) should be fine, probably 15 hundredths (4.05 vs. 4.20) would be too.

But IDK for sure, hopefully someone with the technical knowledge to answer correctly will chime in.
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4.091 - 4.080 = .011 = (11 thousandths)

Odd, I had 3 5700K XP-L2’s in a sealed tape with the order label accompanying them, and 2 5000K XP-L2’s in a sealed tape with their original order label accompanying them, separted in my emitter kit and clearly labeled. I put the two 5000K’s on first, opposing each other on the board, then I placed the 5700K’s on the remaining opposing pads. Re-flowed it, assembled the light.

So now, checking with a UV light, it doesn’t look like what I know it is…

Wouldn’t it be better to use IS units?

Writing a delta of 11mV would have been much easier to understand, and there would have been no confusion that way.

Yes TK, when I plugged the clip on the chip the light came on. Pretty sure it was on while it was flashing Anduril.

Leave it to me, huh? LOL

It’s not really a threshold sort of thing. Small differences have a small effect, big differences have a big effect. Just try to get things as close as you can, and the effects should be small.

I have a 2-slot charger instead of 4-slot, so I can’t charge all 4 cells exactly at the same time… but as long as I do each set of 2 one after the other, on the same charger, they end up almost identical. It’s probably safer than using two different chargers, since each charger has a different termination voltage.

TK, it came on when I hooked it up to flash, it doesn’t now.