The OTC will be effected by heat with or without the tailcap. It all depends on how how the light gets and how well heat sinked the driver is to the body. In my pocket rocket the timings can change by as much as half.
This is why we are trying to do away with the OTC all together to completely rid ourselves of that issue.
If you aer using the banggood drivers they use really bad OTC caps and this is quite common. You can replace the cap with a good X7R cap and it will vastly improve things.
Unfortunately, we can rule this one out :(. I’m using a nice X7R cap supplied by Richard. Timings do not shift at all when there is no lighted tailcap.
Then the bleeder and/or the tailcap current is not correct. With those properly set I do not notice any difference. If they are not right then it will effect things for sure.
I have found 560ohm bleeders to be the most relible myself as long as the tailcap current is kept below ~.3ma, I generally go for about .1ma
Yeah I can report the same using 470 ohm bleeders (cause that’s what came in my kit). Timings do shorten, but its not so much that I even notice it during normal usage. I have to be paying attention to notice the change.
Finally, I successfully illuminated a McClicky switch. I posted about modding one a page or two ago but was never able to make it work properly in that light. The driver just didn’t “bleed” enough and nothing I could do made it happy.
Fast forward a week and a new host shows up. This one went much more smoothly. I already had a modded McClicky and only had to do a small amount of filing and grinding to make it fit this host. I swapped the emitters on the board, screwed it in, and added a bleeder to the 105C driver that came in this guy. No problem. It’ll eventually get a new driver when I decide how I want to build this thing, but this works for now.
So here it is, a copper Okluma TinyDC with a glowing orange tailcap:
Supfire S1 small 16340 tube light, fixed BLF-A6 driver with 460 Ohm bleeder, 219C R9050 SM353, switchboard with 50K pot under the spring, lighted ring with 3x 3.3 kOhm and 6x slow colour change 0805 rgb leds from ebay.
Fun is that the leds are not completely autonomous, they slightly influence each other’s timing and actions so that the cyclus becomes partly chaotic.