By overheating I really meant the dangerous, desolder-wires, self-destroy kind of overheating, but at 50% that is very unlikely to happen. Personally I like to keep these kind of lights, aka pocket rockets, in my own hands, not give them to friends who are unaware of potential issues when running those little rascals unattended.
I keep these lights in my hands and turn them off or lower the output when I feel it’s getting hot. Everyone has a little different sense of what is hot. Mine changed a bit since I got a Zebralight SC600L2. Before that, I would’ve felt that this is too hot already, but since it has a temperature regulation it must be safe, right? I basically don’t let my lights run hotter than my Zebra gets.
I’d vote for staying with 30s turbo timer but that’s just me.
I envy you.
I hate hot temperature.
Lot’s of sleep issues, even if I have a climatizated rom, I cannot make it cold as I would because I live with other people.
It’s not nice to have more than 40°C, and 85% humidity, not funny at all. I find myself much more accustomed going working outside with a T-shirt when there are 5°C than living @ home partially naked in summer.
For the magnesium stuff….I’m with you, also with Potassium
For the stepdown timer…30+ would be nicer than 30 but It’s a NO BUMMER for me, as you can always go down and come back up, right?
I am fine with 30 second step down for a good safe Turbo session. I would rather have this light available with “only” thirty seconds of ~1500+ lumens that I can use with the other modes, than a light that goes “phfffft” one day I am feeling froggy on seeing how much heat I can handle…
You can discus this endlessly, piling safety margin on top of safety margin, but it just needs a test, with a high drain battery, tailstanding, with high enough ambient temperature. The turbotimer can then be set at what the light can handle, 30/60/90 secs or whatever it will be.
I do agree that if getting this light suitable for unaware (stupid) folks implies bargaining too much on the performance, then it would not be a true BLF-light anymore.
But it looks like we're on the right track for both kind of people
Ultimately... :) .... Whatever TK says she is going to do with the code is what is going to happen :) I do not think any one of us in the group will not go along with her recommendation. If she feels it is too hot..then it is too hot.
Someone asked about LVP (low voltage protection). It does have that and even has a battery check feature in the hidden section.
I believe somewhere in this thread are all of the features but honestly I cannot say where. It is my fault that I did not include it in the OP. IF TK finds the time to list and post the features I will post them in the OP. With that said, the ability alone to go from 7 to 4 modes and reverse is the cat's meow. Even I, who likes mode memory, find that even starting on moon and jumping straight into max to be easy. That should even satisfy the 2-mode people :)
What this light does not do is clean the house. LOL.
Think about it:
Max people
Moon people
2-mode people
Bicyclists
Low Voltage Protection
Battery check
Like Dale said....this UI just needs to be implemented in ALL lights
I'm just glad to see "our" custom firmware make it into a nice production run. Everybody is doin what they are good at - from firmware to making drivers/lights. Of course TK doesn't make any $$$ on it - can't say Eagle Eye or BangGood are making much either, but if this gets pulled off where the majority is happy, we all owe TK something. I know she's leveraged some things from BLF or BLF'ers, but the majority is on her.