Yup. I ended up installing the washer on my D4 with bare aluminum head. I removed the flip-up cover in order to install the washer. The washer is glued on with Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive. It can take the heat, is strong enough and the silver coloring helps any bits of glue blend in with the head.
I think it looks great! Much better than the flip-cover did. Downside is the washer doesnât provide nearly as much protection from accidental turn-on compared to the flip-cover.
For the washers: I also looked in my local hardware store and didnât find anything suitable. Steel finishing washers were available, but I find them too hard to file down. Nickel Plate Brass works well because the brass is easy to file down with a hand file and the nickel plating looks great. Best place to find them is probably Ebay or Amazon. The size you want for this light is #14.
My plan now is to flash Anduril in this light and install one of Lexelâs aux LED boards.
Hm⊠I wonder if Lexel sells LEDs to light the switch. Iâll have to check.
^ That is an awesome job. That is how the Emisar light should of came out of the box.
I tweaked Anduril to give me memorized level from lockout instead of momentary moonlight. Just for those time I need to pull it out and see something for a few seconds.
I pmâed AEDe about a switch bezel(he had some nice ones for the H03) but didnât get and answer back. I think I will have to give your mod a try.
I think with the washer bezel and the firmware tweak this could be a sweet EDC light.
I donât have a D4s, but it looks like the switch is more recessed, anyone?
I asked a similar question of ToyKeeper not too long ago. I asked
I am looking to buy one of Lexelâs aux LED boards to add to my D4. He has told me the D4 driver can be flashed with the D4S FW to control the aux LEDs. What are your thoughts on that?
Here response was, I wouldnât recommend running D4S firmware on a D4 with Lexelâs aux LED board. There are a few problems:
*_Thermal regulation wonât work, because itâs configured for a bigger host.
The ramp shape is wrong because it expects 3Ă7135 chips and only has 1.
Lexelâs aux LED board canât do the low brightness modes, just on or off or blinking.
So Iâd recommend making a custom build for it. Start with the D4 config, enable the aux LED options, and tell it to skip the low mode. The lines for that are in the PL47 config. It may also need one line copied from the D4S hwdef file, to tell it which pin the aux LEDs are on._*
Using the D4s Firmware the current gen of Lexel Aux Boards should work in both low and high modes in the D4 (per Lexel).
so we need the custom config with AUX enabled and the hwdef part. I do not have a programmer yet and I have never tried to edit firmwares, so Iâll have to see if I can manage that.
I would be interested in knowing why low brightness is not supposed to work, maybe it has to do with pwm being supressed by the extra chip/controller on his aux board (I have no Idea :D)?
Manufacturers need to take heed, or someoneâs going to accidentally incinerate their baby and end up suing the manufacturers for selling a known hazardous item. Think hot coffee at the drive-thru window. Not to start a lawyer rant, just saying.
Iâd really like a clearly perceptible detent click stop on the tailcap or head-body junction for turning to a safe locked off position.
Or a safety indicator â little RED LED when the tailcap is tight, even when the light is switched off.
A âloaded and dangerousâ indicator.
Itâd be nice to also have a little GREEN LED when locked out.
Oh, but howâd you power that? Hmmmm.
Thatâs why they put safeties on guns, come to think of it. To avoid making unwanted holes.
The aux LEDs donât use PWM. Itâs basically connected directly to power, aside from having one or two resistors in the way, and an on/off switch. The MCU turns it on and off, and adds/removes a resistor. So the brightness is controlled by changing the voltage.
The reason why Lexelâs aux LED boards (the ones Iâve tried, at least) donât work on low mode is because they shut themselves off at low voltage instead of allowing the LEDs to be dim. I havenât heard anything before this that theyâre supposed to work now, but he did ask like a week ago why it wasnât working.
Trying to flash my D4 to Anduril, but I canât get AVRdude to run.
Every time I try running it the command prompt says âDoes not have permissionâ. And a popup window appears saying the app is not allowed to run on my PC.
I installed AVRDude last week briefly. For the first 20 minutes it worked and behaved normally, but now the app wonât even run. Uninstalling and reinstalling didnât help.
Using Windows 10. This is a home PC and Iâm the only one who uses it. I have admin privileges and have no idea how this happened or why the app stopped working.
Any ideas? or suggestions for alternate programs that might run?
Unlikely this would help, but if you are anywhere near Santa Barbara you can swing by my place and program your D4. I a necessary parts and a pretty recent version of Anduril for the D4. Otherwise, your problem sounds pretty weird, the only thing I can think of is be try shutting of your PC and waiting a bit, then turn it on and try again.