making a small batch of Texas Avenger "TA" Drivers fully tested running Bistro or Narsil, Clicky or E-switch, SIR800

v1.2 has no temperature protection, so if thats Ok for you

Tom E is too busy to make LVP / indicator switch into Narsil triple v1.5

Yes, that’s fine by me. My hand is the temperature protection. Lol

Plus, I’ve recently switched to unprotected Liitokalas for more output so the LVP is more important to me even though I’ll have the lighted side switch to tell me if the rear switch is on or off.

These do look great. Thank you for making these for the community.

mattlward
vinte77
statix57
Kawiboy
Etex
MrJohnny

sent today

reflowed now all boards
tomorrow doing a lot programming and testing

last chance to check if your divers are set up as you wish
when you did not specify any temperature limit it will be set to 60°C

all drivers are now flashed configured and tested
did pack em as well

last chance to check the Excel sheet if everything is right

:+1: Excellent!

Thanks for all your hard work. I’m looking forward to receiving them and building me some awesome lights. :+1:

+1 :beer:

I posted this in TA's driver thread as well:

So made some progress on merging Narsil 2 channel and 3 channel, so I have one source code base now with a header file called setups.h. In setups.h, you define all the board configuration settings and other compile time user option settings.

It's compiling now for 2 channel and 3 channel, with indicator LED enabled or disabled, and using R1/R2 or internal V1.1 ref for voltage monitoring.

Totally untested, but it compiles.

Next to do is actually try it...

Some Details:

It has the more advanced, simplified version of the configuration settings UI that's in the 2 channel latest version of Narsil, v1.3. One new feature is ability to set the temperature threshold for thermal stepdown. There's probably a couple more tweaks as well in LVP and thermal stepdown, results from more recent testing.

Testing will take some time - may need to actually build up a couple boards, etc.

Thank you Lexel. You have been epic!! :+1:

Thank you Lexel once again, your work is truly appreciated !
Can I add a Locator LED if I want to ? Thanks !

locator LED with resistor can be simply added to the bleeder resistor pads

Just little more Narsil update news -

  • no further progress yet - project juggling
  • looks like the new BLF GT buck driver that's in the design/proto phase will be a perfect fit for this combined Narsil version - I'm calling it NarsilM for now: Multi-channel configuration
  • the GT buck driver will just be another channel configuration, but with some special needs. Two I/O PWM pins, but slightly different behavior
  • I'm a big fan of the TA triple drivers, so I want/need to get this done!! (as I hit myself over the head...)

You will need to add a resistor inline with the LED in this case or it will drain the battery very quickly. A normal through hole resistor could be used easy enough. Something around 30k-50k ohms generally works out ok.

Are you guys talk'n bout a tail bleeder LED (Bistro - clicky) or locator LED w/Narsil? For Narsil I use somewhere between 2K and 15K, depends on the LED(s) and visibility of the LED.

Well, it sounds like he is talking about installing an indicator LED using the tailcap bleeder pads.

So it would remain on 24/7 and drain the battery continually. 50k ohm resistor tends to have the final output be around ~0.050ma from my testing, so a little over 1ma per day of drain.

I want to use the Narsil option to activate/desactivate the locator LED, not simply use a bleeder resistor + LED :slight_smile:

This makes more sense and it also means you don’t need a resistor, or at least as big of one. But in this case you can’t use the bleeder resistor pads. I am not sure what pads you need to use but I think the voltage divider pads. Never used an indicator LED with narsil before myself.

Ooops, removed this post. Lexel is using an older version of NarsilTriple, so not sure about the Indicator LED support.