I’ve found a dab ofconductive lubricant after cleaning contact areas often helps.
So does checking and smoothing off the spring contact points, which often are chopped off with some kind of wire nipper leaving a sharp point that can make intermittent contact after it’s scraped a bit and given you a gouged battery with some ridges and hollows.
The tables can be generated by bin/level_calc.py in the repository. It typically requires some manual tweaking to get everything just right, but most of it is already scripted.
When people build their own versions for their own lights, it typically seems to work out pretty well. They can tweak everything to their liking, with all the options configured to taste. Making a generic version to sell on bare drivers for use in unknown hosts… is more tricky.
For example, take the relatively simple case of a FET+1 driver. We calculate a ramp for a light with one XP-L emitter at ~1500 lm. Then put that driver inside a host and run it. It’ll work well with a single XP-L emitter, but it’ll look weird when paired with something else. Give it a quad or something like an E07, and the ramp won’t look right. The FET portion will ramp up a lot faster than the 7135 portion. Or give it something lower-powered like a single XP-E2, and the ramp will look weird in the opposite way… the FET portion hardly even seems to go up at all:
That’s just one example, and a relatively simple one, but I hope the idea is clear. To get good results, the firmware needs to be configured and compiled for the specific hardware it’s used in.
Sorry, I , uh, may have jumped the gun in my excitement. My Bad.
TK, all that is well and good if you are OCD about everything being smooth and equal. If you don’t mind seeing the power level jump, it really doesn’t matter and can actually be a big kick watching it Roar!
Just to be clear, Anduril is not yet available as an option from Mtn, correct? I’d like to try it in a mod, but wasn’t sure where to find a driver with that FW yet.
I have used several of those Samsung’s and agree with BlueswordM (not that my opinion adds very much to his). I think they are a decent bit less green than the 219C’s and I really like them a lot. I like putting them in S2s with an optic in front.