To avoid translation issues, please let me explain.
When someone puts their money into a business, it’s all about making money to support their family and themselves. Doing favors for the customer can be a good way to do business, of course, and isn’t that what Simon is already doing? Going far and away over the top to bring us clear anodizing, AR Coated lenses, clear button and/or a contrasting black button, and even being open to an updated/upgraded modern firmware, taking a chance on his very clientelle to make this happen? All these changes without a doubt run into expense to implement, on the speculation that it will become profitable for having taken the chance. Right? And still, his lights are bargain priced with high quality easily surpassing all but the most determined of the competition, again, right? Even while developing new models to further appease our hungry appetites? (stay tuned, he IS working on options, as JDub has clearly explained)
Pretty obvious he’s given us his ear, put his monies to work on our requests, and now once again it is our turn… make it pay.
FWIW, I feel no entitlement to compensation for making the new driver code. I’m merely happy to help someone I like, someone who has been consistently good to BLF.
And it was a fun project. I approach lights strictly as an enjoyable hobby, and don’t want it to become “work”.
Just putting that out there, in case it’s relevant.
… though I was admittedly a little grumpy about having to include SOS mode. Silly survivalists.
As I saw the components are the same as the old driver.
Is there any changes in schematics on PCB or it is absolutely same as old one.
Sorry about my novice question.
It will be nice, but do not belive it is possible. Even 90k is difficult with this reflector size.
Actually I have two moded flashlight with XP-G2 diode. Convoy C8 has 160k and Eagle Eye X6 has 110k candela.
Perhaps the 35 and 50 work out too close together on paper, but this is a good reason there isn’t a grouping that has 35 and 50 in it at the same time. 50% was a half power option for those wishing to have decent output with low heat and prolonged cell life. Tit for tat, as it were. 35% fills the bill in spacing where more modes are being used.
In the C8 where I added 5 chips to the driver, 35% yields 662 lumens where 50% yeilds 693 lumens. So the output is quite close, but the 35% is used as a half step between other modes in the groups it’s used in. The target was to be more pleasing to the eye in the size of the step. It is, after all, the end result that really matters regardless of the particular numbers used in getting there.
So basically respected and honored author of this firmware did it as a fun project free of charge (that’s how I understood his post, I may be wrong thou, english is not my native language)!
and Wildcat confirmed that hardware is identical (color is not important at this time)
(this sounds to me more like a confirmation than estimation!).
Finally, question: Is this fw available for download in hex format (really important is that it does not lock mcu for future flashing) or as a code (AVR Studio will chew that up and spit hex file) so I could try out this new fw and decide if I like it or not I am indifferent?
