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I have been making some progress with this Pin3 turn off. The code here turns the light off when the usb cable is connected. :slight_smile:

It does have a bug tho. Once it’s turned the light off and you unplug the charger cable it will allow you to change modes then turn off again after .5s

EDIT: Made one last tweak and now it works!!! Code HERE

I’ve added an extra beacon mode, very long press to activate.

But hey it’s getting there. (BTW voltage monitoring is switched off atm so I know its not interfering with turning off ect…)

489

Sweeeet. I’m excited to try it this afternoon. When you unplug the cable, does it automatically come on, or do you need to press switch?

490

press switch and it comes back on. Sometimes it needs a moment to check its unplugged but i think if we just reduce the ticks it will be ok.

491

hmm did you try it with or without a resistor on pin3?

I flashed the one in the second link above and it isn’t reacting to the charger cord. I do have a resistor on it.

492

I’m using a 4.3v zener

493

I see you retained a lot of the temp monitoring code. I wonder if we can clean it up so that it’s essentially “If it’s connected, off. If it isn’t connected, on” (as it is now, I have no idea what’s actually going on in that code :bigsmile: )

494

I’ve tried to strip lots out but I kept loosing the functionality. Maybe somebody else might have better luck. If it’s not working you should only need to reduce the charger high and low values to lower ones.
I’ll have another go at reducing the code during the week, I’m just glad I got it to work.

495

:beer: yep well done. glad it is working for you. I have a few things to work on before it fits my usage. I’m hoping TK get’s a chance to look at it when her X6R arrives

496

Yeh, I’m sure that she’ll be able to clean it up a bit and polish it off.

497

I must be going insane. I’ve tried a wide range of values with no love.

I’m to the point where I would pay someone to just get this FW working for me as a whole.

498

I haven’t ordered a X6R yet or the driver / parts to upgrade it, but I might be able to get something working anyway.

499

You have no idea how appreciative I would be. I was hoping to have this light ready for my grandfather’s birthday… That was yesterday. Oops.

500

Wonder why it’s not working for you? Have you tried bypassing the resistor? I’m sure what ever TK comes up with will be much more elegant that what I have.

501

Its mystery time again gang.

I am using JCs dual switch firmware. I did use this once before without issue in a 12V setup and it was fine. However not so much today.

I flashed a FET driver with it today and changed only the modes and turbo time length. But the driver will randomly change modes. Always in the upward direction. It can be sitting still on the work bench on low for example, and in a few seconds will jump to the next mode or possibly even bounce a couple in a row.

Other than that it works perfectly. Stays in the same mode when power is disconnected, and switches like normal when the e switch pin is grounded ( I just touch the wire to ground for now there is not actual switch).

At first I thought bad connection so I redid them all. This did not effect it at all so I thought bad driver. Nope. New driver same exact result.


Anyone care to wager a guess?

502

I have tried to slim the firmware down, removing extra parts of the temp mon code and the low_to_high (as we can go either way with the switch) then got carried away adding features I’d like and Attiny25 support.
I will try and get a slimmed down version with just modes and for an Attiny13A

EDIT:
Lightweight version here
I will test later tonight confirm it works.

503

Been testing needs more work not 100% yet. Lightweight version doesn’t work.

504



At this point if someone even had a wild guess I'd entertain the thought :)

505

There is a feature in the voltage monitoring to increase mode is the volts bounce back up. Something might be wrong there.

506

Was the original version of the firmware working before you changed it? In other words, did you try flashing the original unmodified version of the firmware and test that before you modified it and re-flashed it? And if so when you tested the unmodified version did that work?

If so, try re-flashing with the unmodified version again and see if it works again.

If not, then maybe there’s something wrong or incompatible with the original version?

507

Any further progress?

I finally found work (yay) so I’ve been busy this week and haven’t had time to work on it anymore