Bit of an odd question here but has anyone had problems with different cells in a BLF A6 on turbo mode?
I just received one in the post and tested it on a rubbish old samsung 28A cell. It went to turbo, flickered and went to moonlight mode.
I tried a 30Q and it did the same….
Must be broken?….
I grabbed the 3600 protected cell from the klarus XT12GT and it works fine.
Surely the 30Qs are man enough for this light?
I’m just chucking some VT6s on charge to see if they work.
Yes, I use 30Q’s in mine, and they work fine. Both flat tops and button tops.
Are you sure your cells are charged and healthy? Dropping down to moonlight mode sounds like it’s detecting low voltage and dropping the output as part of the low-voltage-protection circuit.
Driver needs to be modded.
Mike
I’d try tightening up everything in the head, just to make sure.
It was discovered and posted by somebody on that forum, but I can’t find OP atm.
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Well I just tried them on the VT6’s and it works fine. Odd that it doesn’t like the 30Q’s even though the 30Qs are fine in other high drain lights.
The Samsung’s are to much for it. I bet if you discharged the 30q to about 3.5v it will work, meaning that the driver is like so many others of that type. They can’t handle the high amp draw. Best thing to do with that driver is replace it with one that has the new layout/parts or mod it
What’s the voltage of the vtc6
They’re all fresh off the charger.
Weird. Maybe it’s just a connection issue. They usually don’t act up when pushing just one emitter.
Some work, some not. Adding resistor fix that issue.
Mike
Thanks, I bookmark that.
Mike
It is also still possible that battery length or other issues are causing the driver to think that there has been a half-press, and it then circles to moonlight as next mode. Has it really never done the flicker-and change-mode thing except on turbo?
I think the layout is a little different between the A6 driver and the X5/X6 driver
Part to be modded is the same.
What??? Isn’t he referring to a stock BLF A6? It’s driver is designed for high-drain cells like the 30Q.
My thoughts are if I drop the voltage of the cell it’ll be drawing more amps to keep the power up.
It works on VTC6’s and I have a few of those so it’ll keep one of those in it now.
I only bought the light as I didnt have one. I wont be relying on the light I was just a bit baffled when it decided that the 30Q wasn’t going to work with it.
The BLF A6 uses a FET driver (on high modes), so if you drop the cell voltage it will actually use less current (and be less bright).
But it should work fine with a 30Q. I have two of those lights, and they both work great on 30Q’s.
There must be something wrong with either your battery, or the driver. Perhaps the driver is faulty, and can’t handle high current? But you also said it didn’t work on old 28A cells, so that doesn’t make sense. Are you absolutely sure the 30Q you’re using is good?
what it does with low battery is drop levels til it gets to one that isn;t too low a voltage
not just go to moonlight
unless it is REALLY low, the battery condition
wle