TK's Emisar D4 review

I just received my new Anduril flashed, tint mixed D4 from Hank. Aside from being downright awesome, I just noticed that my driver has flashing vias. Not sure if ive ever heard or seen these in the wild yet.

https://i.imgur.com/pF9MN3I.jpg Its a tad out of focus, but you get the idea.

Nice! looks like Hank updated the D4’s driver board to include flashing vias! :+1:

That is fantastic news, and I think I will have to get one. The D4 is the most overpowered unmodded light I’ve encountered, so it’s sort of a worst-case scenario for thermal regulation. The ability to reflash it without taking anything apart would be incredibly helpful for thermal testing.

You can order a D4 from Hank with Anduril? Or did you flash it yourself?

I e-mailed Hank tonight asking if he could flash a D4S with Anduril, and how much it would be. He said NO, they are not able to do it.

Hank did it for me.

I still find this weird considering it even has vias to flash. Maybe it was just too similar to RampingOSv2 for him to see a reason to do it. Maybe shoot him back an email and ask him if he could do it for like $10?

Id offer to do it, but I killed one by flashing corrupted fuse bits and now that I have 2 working Anduril XP-L HI D4S with calibrated voltage I wont touch them. Im apparently alone in this feat though as TK has never had an issue that im aware of.


The pos joke instead a clip is still there. Nice.

Just add the latest anduril firmware choice for D4

Fantastic. Hank, I think you’ve just sold me my 3rd D4!

Are they running the version from June 2nd (with the updated lockout moon mode, candle mode and momentary strobes)?

I’m not sure, but just in case, I sent a link with the latest builds.



damn one day after mine was shipped... Well I think I´ll have to flash Andruil on it myself.

I’m loving the improvements so far. :smiley:

Looks like Anduril option is now on the website

EDIT: Hank says he’s using 2019-5-30 version of Anduril

I read on reddit that the D4 should be soon available in the same sand color of the D18! Is this true? I wish he also add a knurling on the tube like the titanium version.

One thing that I thought was weird is that my Anduril D4 Shipped on 5/28 has no muggle mode.

I wish we could get the smooth Green bodies back.

:+1:

I also wish it, but hank said no

Aye. I would love Green or Titanium, but sadly I missed my chance for either of those options.

As the new D4 has flashing pads on the driver, will there be an adapter available, or will I have to get creative with some modelling clay and bare wires? After trying the improved 6/02 version of Anduril, I simply must have it on my flashlight.

It looks like you got one with a 2019-05-21 build, but I think the D4 should mainly ship with a 2019-06-05 version instead.

Muggle mode has been removed at Hank’s request. It seems to cause too much confusion. I’m kind of happy to have it taken out, TBH.

I’m hoping Hank or someone will make the pogo pin adapters commercially available, but I don’t know what will happen.

It’ll definitely be required for the Anduril version of the D4 though. It seems those are using a new tiny1634 driver, so the pogo pin adapter is the only way to flash it. A SOIC8 clip won’t work.

The RampingIOS version is still tiny85 though. That code hasn’t been updated to run on tiny1634. So if anyone wants to make sure they get tiny85, order the RampingIOS version.

Would a hex intended for tiny85 not flash to a tiny1634 driver? Is tiny1634 a significant improvement?

Tiny85 and tiny1634 are not binary-compatible, so a .hex for one doesn’t work on the other.

The new chip is a significant improvement in some ways. It has twice as much space for code, and it has quite a few more pins available for inputs and outputs. Past designs have often been rather limited because there weren’t enough pins, and that restriction mostly disappears with t1634.