New Convoy C8 – Clearly better

Hey, that one’s worth studying for sure! Thanks for the visual TK. :wink:

Dale, don’t hate Kelley LeBrock because she’s beautiful. (from an advert’ of the period)

Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful

I never saw the movie, but she was memorable anyway (I just put it into my Netflix queue, it should be fun). She was at least as memorable as the old Noxzema “Take it off, take it all off” girl from my early teens .

Take it off, take it all off.

Sorry for the trip (and diversion) down memory lane. Back to lights.

Finally new UI! :slight_smile:

Not those have all I need. Would it be possible to buy those drivers separately?

How about Bisquick (edit: This was totally a joke, no disrespect intended)? lol Café au lait? I think when I get mine, I’ll just call it “AWESOME!!” :heart_eyes:

Demitasse?

Mahalo to everyone involved!

In general, it is quite interesting firmware.
I’ll try it now flash in the Convoy C8.
From the description, I did not quite understand how the adjustment, but I think I can figure out.

What FUSE?

Why did you decide to abandon the separate control group of chips AMC7135?
1*7135 in the fifth leg, 2*7135 in the second, the other on the sixth leg of the microcontroller?

I like Bisquick, but I think there are some trademark problems there.

Bistroy ?
I like what is done here, true customer feedback engineering (if that makes any sense in my oh-so not native language…)
I like Bistro UI but can’t really enjoy it because of my uncontrollable taste for Turbo mode with 30Q…

Only thing that C8 needs now is remote pressure switch and we can actually use it for hunting :smiley:

It should, actually. FET drivers just crowbar the battery across the LED with minimal resistance, measured in milliohms (mΩ), so the voltage they’d drop would be negligible (Vf ~ Vb), vs 7135s which drop the difference between Vf of the LED at that current and the battery voltage, or about 0.1V (100mV) minimum. So 4.2V from a fresh cell and 3.6V Vf is a 600mV difference (vs much less with the FET).

Drive a red XP-E (~2V) with 7135s, and they’ll all join hands and limit current by soaking up all that excess voltage and burning it off as heat. Crowbar the battery directly across it with a DD FET driver, and the poor XP-E will die a horrible fiery death.

Mmm, I saw from the pix it’s (thankfully) not a mirror-finish. Nice…

Flashlight-porn… :smiley:

“unistro”? :smiley:

“mini-stro-ni”? (Okay, booooo…)

Finger buffet?
Snack bar?

If it can be easily added, why not make it a option. $1 extra for cut out slit tail cap. I think it would do well. For those that have tried cut out slit tail caps, you won’t go back to regular ones.
No matter how recessed the switch is, you should still be able to turn on with gloves. But the cut outs just make it so much more comfortable and easier.

fuses are low: 0x75, high: 0xFF

Huge thanks to the team that made this light and this firmware happen! Just flashed a S2+ with the mini-bistro and it is pretty much the most amazing piece of software I have seen on this light. Works out of the box on the S2+ with RMM’s Moonlight Special v3 driver and 4x 7135 (380mA).

I used the following fuses:

sudo avrdude -p t13 -c usbasp -Uflash:w:bistro-mini.hex:a -Ulfuse:w:0x75:m -Uhfuse:w:0xFF:m

works.

I liked modes. I made myself a driver and it is very easy to configure.
Driver wonderful.

Your efforts and achievements are amazing TK. Nice work and thanks. :slight_smile:

Nice UI!

I have EDC-ed a triple with the intl-outdoor RGBW driver for a while, which has the same ‘long press goes to first setting of the mode group’ and I can tell that is a very pleasant feature. That RGBW driver has some annoying blinkies at the end of the mode group but in actual use they are not annoying at all because you never have to go through them.

Noob question: could standard Nanjg 105c/105d driver be used to independently run only some of it’s 7135 chips (with appropriate firmware)? If not, how much of a change is required to add this support, considering these drivers are produced specifically for Convoy, as J-Dub74 said?

No. All AMC7135 is parallel.