Installed one of the narsil TA drivers into my skilhunt h03 tonight. Every thing is working great, except for the indicator led which I’m sure is user error. I’ll open it up later and figure out what I did wrong.
Thanks lexel for putting these together. They all look great. Now I got a few more projects to keep me busy for a little while.
Make sure the led positive is on the indicator resistor and that polarity is correct.
I don’t know which driver you have, but there are pictures in the 1st post. It shows 2 points where the indicator led is attached. The one with the resistor is positive, the other is negative. Of course the little led your using will also have a positive and negative marking on it.
I found some instructions for version 1.2 of Narsil, but I don’t know how to enter the config mode and make changes. Can anyone explain it to me or make a video maybe?
Narsil v1.1 manual has same instructions to enter config modes as newer ones
Configuration UI Operation
For Ramping, the button is held for 8 seconds, and for Mode Sets, the button must be held for 2.5 seconds to activate the main Configuration UI settings. The light will blink 2 times quickly, and once slowly to indicate the Configuration UI mode is active. There are 7 settings, listed in the table below. You can change or leave any of these settings – there’s no need to set each one. Clicks choose the value for each setting, and each click will blink the light to acknowledge the click. If no clicks are entered in 4 seconds, the light jumps to the next configuration setting indicated by 2 quick blinks and slow quicks of the number for what setting it is (ex: 3 slow blinks means the 3rd setting). You can bypass the timeout by doing a click&hold to skip to the next setting. If you continue to hold it, it will exit configuration UI settings mode altogether, indicated by 4 quick blinks.
That’s just a copy and paste from the manual which is not too clear for my understanding.
So I hold down the side switch 8 seconds to go onto config mode. That I know.
If I want to disable all blinkies for instance, do I then click 7 times and wait for a confirmation, then click once to change the setting? Maybe it blinks once to confirm?
It will progress though each setting number. It will flash 5 times to indicate your on setting number 5, then make your choice, let it time out or skip to go to setting 6. To disable bpinkies wait until it gets all the way to setting 8, then press one time.
Then take your time and let the lights cycle through all of it
Its similar to Bistro, just when you see in Bistro a buzz to do a half press to enter, now click sideswitch 2 times to choose option 2 or 3 times for option 3
I’ll try it out. I’ll let it go until I see 7 flashes then click once. Hopefully that works. Once I get the hang of it I’ll do a video so others know what to expect.
Sadly, I don’t have a light with Bistro. I know, I know. I’m probably the only person left who doesn’t. :cry:
Alright, I think I figured out the config mode, but it’s not working.
I ignore the first 2 blinks then count out the rest. When it gets to 7 normal blinks I press the button once and the light comes on once. Then I get the 4 or 5 flashes saying it’s finished.
The problem is I still have strobes and biking flashes, etc…
Here is the setting sheet for Narsil v1.1 and v1.2.
It shows that number 7 is for the blinkies and that 1 click should disable them. I’m not sure why it’s not working.
The first couple times I did my single click after 7 blinks I got a confirmation blink. A few times I didnt. Once it took 2 clicks to get a single confirmation blink.
Hmmm, it’s possible my lighted side switch is interfering with the signal. DBCustom has a different driver and his lighted side switch was interfering with basic operation like ramping up and down. He swapped his 50k resistor with a 75K and it started working fine. I’m using a 15k, so I’m gonna try upping my resistor size and see if that works.
I looked further in this flashing a driver with v1.2 and can confirm this bug, its also the same in v1.4 I used no indicator or power LED on this driver its a problem with the firmware
Which narsil operation instruction manual should we be using. On one of my 21mm 1S Narsil boards that is running Narsil 1.4. I couldn’t find 1.4 instructions so I printed out v1.3a instructions. But I found v1.1 instructions fit better, but not perfect.
edit: Ok I found the manual for v1.3 That seems to match up. I got my Indicator LED working in my skilhunt H03. But when I toggle on Locator LED feature it doesn’t stay on when the light is off. Am I missing something? Is the Locator LED feature for a separate physical LED from the indicator LED, maybe for the tail switch?