【convoy】H4 and B35AM options are updated

This can be an interesting flashlight for close range. Or 4xXHP50.2 (4000K), then will throw a little more.

10–30–50–70100% It would be ideal for those who use cycling …

Will you use biscotti in your 20 and 22mm drivers too? (6A)

Yes, less throw, but much more lumens. There is already S12 with 3x led, and I like it’s beam pattern and throw. I know there is SST20, but… More lumens with less throw would be nice. And funny.

yes ,after China spring festival

Simon, will the upcoming biscotti in 22 mm driver work with nichia? I have the S12, nichia-5700k. It’d be great if this will work with it.

yes, suitable

The differences between 30, 50, 70 and 100 are too small.
Especially 50 - 70 - 100.
Even from 50 to 100% is a very small step to the eye.
Or did you mean ideal for people who like to pointlessly cycle through modes? :stuck_out_tongue:

Our brightness perception is not linear with the current, but heat and runtime are. So it is useful to have more modes in the upper brightness region in order to maximize the sustainable brightness for your particular ride duration. For example, for my 1.5 hour night rides I might want the max brightness for my S2+ with 8x7135 driven XPL, which would be about a 70% mode. Of course it will still be difficult to have a mode set that works for everyone and every light.

Oh okay. Thank for explaining.
The LD25 driver would be good for cyclists then, since you can set all 3 modes individually.
…but it’s only 3 modes though… (plus strobe).

By the way, i’m currently running an 18650 10 Watt light on my bike, with an LD25 driver, which is not adjusted (yet).
But i think the middle mode is 50% and it’s just not worth it i.m.o. to have a mode in between.
What i can do though, is switch to 100% when needed, because i normally run it on 50%.
But it’s not a big difference to the eye.
(To me it would seem sensible to have 25 - 50 - 100 % for a bike, or maybe 18 - 35 - 70 %)

Hey Simon when will the new biscotti drivers be for sale?

Know what? In Italian language biscotti is the plural form of biscotto, which means cookie/biscuit. Thus…

Biscotti!

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1580654/millies-cookies-recipe

several days later

In Biscotti, the default 5 levels are 0.1, 1, 10, 35 and 100%

On a 7135x8 = 2.8 Amps, this results in approximately: 0.003A, 0.028A, 0.280A, 0.98A and 2.8A.

For the SST40 version, what is the 100% Amps value? 5 Amps or 6 Amps?

Also, from what I understand, the original “Biscotti” driver does not have temperature protection (unlike “Bistro” firmware), so my question is this “Biscotti” for SST40 an adaptation of the original “Biscotti” driver — what I mean is, it tries to follow the similar brightness levels of the original Biscotti driver, but is not the same “Biscotti” driver?

Sorry if my question sounds confusing.

The firmware called biscotti is just flashed into that driver, so same functionality, other current output.
The max output differs from the 17 mm and 22mm, the 22 standard delivers upto 6A, where the 17mm maxes out on 5A. Also a 6A might be available.
Playing with sense resistors might help allowing to change the max desired output current (up to 8A)

I’m also wondering how it’ll go re: reflashing - I wouldn’t mind making some custom levels for it.

All the links to item pages are broken.
Edit: Never mind, it is an aliexpress problem. All item pages are broken.

Simon’s shop is closed for about a month.
Iirc he did this before, taking down everything.
(not this time though)

Happy holidays, Simon. :+1:

max 5A, it still has temperature protection