The SOS & flashing hidden modes would make a better emergency beacon for marine use in the lantern than in a flashlight for certain cases, (say in a sail boat or cabin cruiser on the water, place the lantern up high and you have a 360 degree lighthouse, emergency beacon, and sending an SOS flash in all directions at the same time. if your on a mountain or anywhere in an open area, its flashes its location & light in all directions, (not in just one direction like a flashlight.
How many LED of different colors are behind the switch? The manual makes mention of red and green, but Den has been talking about it being orange. Does it have 3 colors, is it using a RGB LEDs to achieve any color, or are there some mistakes in there that should be corrected?
Okay. A few more questions as we’re editing the manual.
1) What is the low battery behavior of the LT1? Does it back off the output as the batteries get low, or what? Will it turn itself off at any point from LVP?
2) How long is the full ramp from low to high brightness? Is it 3s?
3) Is there any visible indication that the tint mode has been set to auto?
4) Is this a correct description of running the LT1 while charging/on USB power? “The only other limitation is within the Blinkies group, only BattCheck mode is available…”
5) How long do you need to disconnect power by unscrewing the head from the base in order to clear the Momentary UI mode?
It has a step down, then turns off when with the LVP. (verify with Toykeeper though on the voltages & specifics that is set with the Andruil firmware.
it seems to be around 3 to 4 secs from ramp floor to max. The indication is a second blink when holding the button at the end of the manual tint ramp at each end of the ramp. I’m not sure what you are referring to clear the mode, but if the lantern is set for stepped or ramping, it stays in that mode even after locked out or batteries removed.
“UI: Momentary mode
This mode locks the LT1 into a single-mode interface where the LEDs are only on when the button is held down. It is intended for Morse code and other signaling tasks.
Brightness is the last-ramped level, so adjust that before entering momentary mode.
Momentary mode enable: 5 clicks from OFF to enter
Operation in Momentary mode is limited to holding the button to turn the LT1 on at the last brightness level before enabling Momentary mode.
Momentary mode disable: physically disconnect power”
It says to physically disconnect power to disable / clear the mode. I’m trying to figure out how long power has to be disconnected for it to clear. The light has some capacitance on the driver board and the standby current draw of the micro is pretty low. This means it could take many seconds if not minutes to discharge the caps enough to put the micro through a reset exiting the Momentary UI mode. If it’s more than a few seconds the instructions should recommend a different method (disconnect power and press the button). Since you have an LT1 I’m hoping you can shed some light on how long it takes.
In Anduril and as per Toykeeper’s UI chart electronic lockout is 4 clicks, momentary mode is 5 clicks.
Momentary moonlight until unlocked and momentary last brightness level until power disconnected are two different things.
You’re correct, (i missed that second hidden mode) which is pretty much the same as in the lock-out mode only a bit brighter. (though i noticed it seems to lock on that momentary mode, and needs to have the battery tum loosened to re-set it.
The only way i know how to get out of that momentary mode is to remove the battery tube to reset it, (maybe Toykeeper can comment on the mode operation.
To be clear, it’s a quick removal of the battery that does the trick. You can wait as long as you like, but it’s pretty instant, in my experience with a range of different anduril flashed lights
Back after several monthes away (multi factor story, not related to BLF) and i am happy to be on time for THE lantern :)
I have a lot to catch back and will do asap but i'd be very grateful if someone could tell me when the party will start (days, weeks or .. ?) and if there is an estimated date for the accessory pack as i did not find it neither on the first page nor in the few last ones !
I will have a video of the planned accessory pack soon, as for the LT1 lantern it should be going into production now and getting prepared fro the first order lot.
Finally, we have comments on the amount of time needed for the voltage on the input of the micro to drop enough to cause it to go through a reset and clear the mode.
