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.
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.
BTW, I have a 1.45 milliamp drain on one of my drivers. Is that considered high? It has had zero effect on battery life so it doesn’t seem to be a big deal.
Narsil is wayyyy lower, after you wait 10 secs or so from turn OFF. Did you wait long enough? In the newer versions it's reduced to 5 seconds or so.
It should be 0.021 mA without R1/R2. If you are using R1/R2, depends on what values you use. I typically use 192K and 47K - 10X less drain for the old resistor values, so resulting drain is 0.038 mA.
the locator LED/sideswitch LED can be used with tailswitch lights without a problem, that was its main purpose
for lights with no tailswitch a locator LED should have a pretty high resistor, like Texas_Ace wrote to get low parasitic drain, you can still get brighter that trits with parasitic drain af a few 100uA
Thank you for doing this, can’t wait to put them in to use.
EDIT : Just finished putting one of the drivers in a Skilhunt H02, re-flowed the original emitter to a Noctigon MCPCB, the UI is great with lots of options and the ramping is fast and smooth.
My driver arrived today, and is already in his pretty host : Nitecore HC30
What a wonderful UI ! I love the ramping, really intuitive, and fast at the same time !
Thank you very much once again Lexel !
The illumination is way lower than moon or firefly. If it’s normal, it’s not a bad way for me to tell if I have turned tailswitch off, since I don’t have illum switches.