many years ago a pastor in town was going to start a church. Before he did, he went door to door to door asking the people what their priorities would be for a church. Then they built the church and operated it according to the poll results…
Just wondering out loud what Hank had in mind for the M43. Was it a light he wanted? Was it a light he thought the masses wanted? Is 300 all he plans to produce? Sufficient profit?
by the way, I’m like that previous poster and like the light as it is
I think someone at fonarevka answered about the ramping thing already, saying it would be too hard since the light uses like three different power circuits or power algorithms or something and it wouldn’t change between them smoothly. Something like that anyway. I recall something about ramping not being feasible, but then I wonder how it manages to do the “soft start” thing and smooth changes between levels.
As for ramping though, a pretty simple UI can work well. Click once to turn the light on or off at the last-used level. Hold while on to ramp, release and hold again within a second to turn around and ramp the other way, or if it was released for more than a second it can keep ramping in the same direction next time. Add in a couple shortcuts like double-click from off to get to turbo, or hold from off to get directly to moon. A light with this much range would probably look pretty smooth during ramping using 128 to 256 brightness steps with a total ramp time of maybe 3 seconds from one end to the other. And with battery status on the switch LED, I think that’s all it would need.
Remember, this is a boost converter. It doesn't use PWM dimming like what you're used to seeing and it most likely changes modes by changing the feedback network, meaning that it has a finite number of modes. This is how all of the big multi-mode boost drivers I've seem work, so it isn't as simple as just programming PWM values into the controller. The soft start and smoothness between modes are just part of a big booster's nature. You see the same effect on the TK75.
Talk about fast shipping! I got the XP-G2 S2 D-D version. What a great light. UI 1 is simple to learn. About the same effort as a learning the Zebralight UI. Looks like my S6330’s stocky brother. Turns out that stocky brother has a lot more muscle! Now I just got to save up for the Nichia version.
I agree here. The hours that go into reviews do deserve some sort of credit along with the fact that he picked up the postage charge on sending the light to the next reviewer.
Now I regret not ordering mine when it was available… S4 2B looks awesome…
I hope Vinh doesn’t release a M43vn, this light deserves to be left stock. I don’t see the point of modding a light designed by modders in the first place.
You know he will and all of his minions will buy them like mad. His followers buy anything he touchea and for any price, its insane. I used to own a few of his lights a few years ago but lately its just gone way to far IMO
