*BLF LT1 Lantern Project) (updated Nov,17,2020)

:+1: Thanks TK…… Yeah, I was surprised that you ‘seemed’ to have time to deal with interest list …… isnt that a bit below your paygrade?..…it’s above mine :wink:

Add me to the interest list as well. Been watching this for awhile from afar. I need a decent LED lantern, I’ve convinced myself.

Waiting to hear for progress from Barry really. Its going slower than i been hoping, but i don’’t have the BLF project experience or knowledge that the organizers of the GT or Q8 had. Originally we had TheMiller who has much more experience in projects like this helping us, but he went missing in action over a year ago, and i just don’t have his ability or experience to push this project through faster. We have a great team of people working on the driver & helping with the list and other things including ToyKeeper, Lexel, SBslider, BlueSword, Bmengineer, and with Barry of Sofirn on the team, but my hands are tied on to know exactly of the things needed to get it rolling smoother. All i know of right now is waiting for the driver to be developed at the factory and waiting for updates from Barry, and try to provide him with anything he needs to the best of my abilities & what spare time i have.

I wish I was qualified to help in some way…. if you needed a carpenter, I would volunteer……… at least to tell you what needed to be done next :smiling_imp:

You're job is to go watch Golf .. Go watch Golf .. and putter around the house.

Interested in one, thanks.

I miss TheMiller too. If without him, the Q8 project could take longer. Several days ago, engineer arranged a prototype of board but still wait for it……At the same time, contacting Samsung led supplier for the needed leds, also waiting……. I’m not sure if a prototype of lantern can be made before Chinese New Year arrives.

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast”

and

“it is done, when it is done”

Interested. 2 units.

I’m interested in 2 units.

Thank you Barry for the updates :slight_smile: much appreciated. we will provide all the information you need to help make the BLF lantern a reality.

Put me down for one of these please.

Possibly two.

Interested in one

Barry from the factory have provided a photo of the new LT1 BLF lantern driver board prototype ready for the firmware testing for the lantern! (components & brass positive contact ring to be added)

Yeah, buddy!

I hope that is just a quick and dirty prototype finish i.e. the HASL solder instead of e.g. ENIG plating for production.

Presumably it will be fitted with the Q8 brass contact ring ?

Looking forward to seeing it assembled and tested. Nice to see progress, and that you are continuing to make this happen, despite any personal worries.

Good luck.

I’m not really sure if that amount of vias may become problematic in the long run and/or if maybe a single row somewhere the tube doesn’t make contat would already be enough.

Other than that: Nice layout, programming pins, permanent and switched indicator light and what looks like a thermal sensor?

I’m kind of hoping that there won’t be a permanent / always-on button light. I want to be able to turn it off sometimes, and will probably disconnect it if it’s not controllable by firmware.

There is no plan to use a thermal sensor, because the built-in tiny85 sensor is way too far from where the heat is, external sensors are totally untested, last I heard no pins were allocated to an external sensor, and the light is designed to be incapable of overheating anyway. So I’m not sure why that’s there.

From the PCB, it looks like there is a permanent LED with a solder jumper and a potentiometer on the battery side so it can be set without disassembly.

Yes, there is no pin reserved for that, it looks like that can be modded afterwars by a few solder joints. I suspect it’s there because it adds no cost to include it as unpopulated pads on the PCB.

another list of entries for the interest list:

1121 burnsd
1122 light_man89
1123 PhantomPhoton
1124 gkushev
1125 lumiere
1126 lumiere
1127 Marty6664
1128 Marty6664
1129 Xenon
1130 Xenon
1131 Vaxd

interest list sorted by entry number

interest list sorted by user names