I just popped 4 brand new, never used never charged cells into my 2nd Lt1 that just arrived and plugged it in to charge expecting it to take a while about after 2 minutes the switch turned green!
Batt Check is cycling through different voltages - 3.6,3.6,3.9,4.2, are those the individual cell voltages and if so I don’t know how 1 cell charged so fast, maybe its defective??
Battery check reads the cells as a group connected in parallel. The cells power the light in parallel, the cells are charged in parallel. There is no way each cell can be read individually, except for removing them from the light.
What was the voltage reading on each individual cell before they were placed in the light? Don’t assume they were the same just because they were newly acquired. I don’t know why you should get a sequence of reading like that unless it has something to do with unequal voltages between the newly inserted cells. Tossed into a light like this, cells with unequal voltages will cause current to flow from the higher voltage cells to the lower. That may cause voltage reading issues, but I can’t say for sure what we would see the Batt Check doing.
were the cells flat tops or button tops? (the voltage batt check should read only one reading. use a volt meter if you have one to check each individual cell, it seems that three of the four cells were not contacting the top positive ring, or somehow not connected in parallel as all four should be.
Batt check gives a reading and then keeps running repeatedly unless the button is clicked once. Is that what you mean by stating the voltage rreading changes. ?
My batch 2 LT1 under reports the voltage by 0.1v, it it charges perfectly to 4.2 so doesn’t really matter. Toy keeper said the voltage reading is commonly out by 0.1v on these driver chips, but as the charging chip is independent it doesn’t matter too much.
good to hear the issue is fixed, it was likely some false reading or connection, (as in the body not tightened enough to make a good continuity is one possible cause.
ToyKeeper said I could tweak the code to correct this, but I’m passing. It was a gift for one of my sons, and I was delivering it in person a couple days after it arrived. I’m fine flashing the LT1 with compiled code, but I’m not ready to change code and recompile, then flash.
you can make the intensity higher or lower, but not change the speed of the flicker to faster or slower. Its one or the other. Faster/slower applies to the party strobe and tactical strobe.