LED drivers and Accessories you want, but don’t exist

There are some TA 15mm designs that could have anduril flashed to them.

Lexel most likely offers them pre-made as well.

Hum, what do you mean by pre-made? Ready to install the FW? I don’t know how to install it and have no means install the FW.

Also, another question about those TA drivers: do they work without the 7135 chips in the bottom (spring side)?
I have some lights in which I could use 15mm drivers with only the spring (or no spring) on that side, as the chips would interfere with internal space/battery.

Thanks for the reply in advance!!

It should be able to work without the bottom side 7135’s but would need the right mode group selected to do it.

Lexel makes drivers that are ready to install in small quantities.

I generally don’t bother with making drivers to sell unless I can sell at least 25-50 of it, just not worth the setup time for less then that personally.

Thanks for your reply TA! I get what you say, and I would need to check with Lexel if he could make those drivers as it would imply more work!

I also know that MTN has those flat sided drivers ready to install, but I didn’t see them with Narsil or Anduril, only the Ramping IOS from the D4 on them.

Thanks again! :+1:

I’ve been using the new TinyAVR Series-1 chips (412, 416, 817, etc) in some recent designs, including my "smart" tailcap.

They’re pretty neat, but the difficulty is that pretty much all flashlight firmware up to this point is for the 13A / 25 / 85 chips. I wrote a new barebones NarsilM-inspired firmware for the Series-1 chips earlier this week. And last night, I converted Tom_E’s RampingIOS to run on them (not fully tested yet though). I hope to be designing a single-sided 5A linear driver around these chips pretty soon for the Emisar series (with the D1S + Flat White in mind). I want to confirm another design is working properly first (a 17mm single-sided linear 3A driver). I really like the single-wire debugging and programming that the UPDI provides. And it makes the “programming key” pad footprint smaller and more manageable. They have a lot of good peripheral options, too: internal VRef and temp sensing (which the 85 does have), RTC, TWI/I2C, 16-bit clocks, flexible low-power options, QTouch, etc.

AVRDUDE has added support for UPDI, but not in the published compiled versions yet. So if you want UPDI, you have to compile it yourself. I also ordered the JTAG programmer that El Tangas is working with, but also haven’t tested that yet. For now (until I get fully up to speed) with the Series-1 chips, I’ve been using Atmel Studio 7 for flashing, done via a ATtiny416 Xplained Nano dev board set up for off-board programming.

Oh, it is descriptive.
Narsil was forged by elves and Andúril is reforged from Narsil.

Excuse me but,

I don’t even wanna know…

:smiley: ……………………………………… :open_mouth: ……………………………………… :person_facepalming:

Come on, you guys know what the "E" stands for in my name?

E for this? :smiley:

Edison?

Eggplant?

Magic electronic Elf.

:slight_smile:

Magic Engineer Elf.

Whaaat? Who has removed the picture link in my above post? There Gimli was, asking an important question concerning the above referenced cheap knives who wouldn't have lasted even 5 minutes in Knife or Death. :-D

If you wanna check it out, click/tap (not safe for work ;-) warning).

P.S.: E for excursionist. ;-)

Ok what the absolute madman is this pic…

You shouldn’t have said it’s NSFW. Now I can’t get that image out of my mind now.

The Gods Of Good Taste? I’m still trying to unsee it… :confounded:

Tales of Marvelous Emitters?
So E goes for Emitters.

I want 21mm, E-swich, efficient, stabilized, running Dark Horse (ZB replica) firmware on attiny85 driver, a replacement for H03 stock driver ;))

sound activated flashlight, so I can strobe four thousand lumens at a car that doesn’t give me right of way when I have it, just by shouting at them.

I mean it does exist, just not compact and out of the box: