My Convoy L6, lighted switch, TA FET driver plus mods

I updated the throw numbers in post 8 and added some pictures to post 9.

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What different between “Indicator LED” and “Power on LED”?

They are very similar, but you can’t have both low voltage protection and the indicator led on the 2 cell version of this driver.

Narsil v1.2 has LVP, but no temperature support or indicator led support.

Narsil V1.4 does not have LVP, but does have temperature support and indicator led support.

Basically the indicator is a little fancier than the power indicator. It can be programmed to stay on when the rear switch is on or you can manually turn it off. When you do a battery check the main beam as well as indicator led blink at the same time.

With my light I only needed the power indicator so that I know when the rear switch is on and off. So I chose to have the LVP and no indicator led or temperature support. I can measure the temperature with my hand. Lol

Here is what Lexel said about the indicator led.

Thanks

I plan to use NarsilM (2S) for XHP70.2.

I am not able to modify the firmware code.

Which one is better?

Which is better between what? V1.2 and v1.4 or do you mean both of them compared to M?

1.2 and 1.4 are equally good, they just have different options. Narsil M is supposed to have the ability to let you assign pin 7 so you can choose between temperature sensors or lvp. I’m not an expert in Narsil and the M version was not ready yet when I ordered my drivers.

Is Lexel making you one? If so, I would ask him which version suits your needs.

I understand “Indicator LED” and “Power on LED” now.

I can flash my own firmware.

I’m just a little confused in these versions.

So still have to study these (Narsil) information. And to enhance my English understanding.

Thank You!

You can learn a lot more here than from me.

Narsil M thread

For this case, The inducator led works still?

and

LVP is set by R1/R2?

I have no idea. You need to ask Tom or Lexel, etc…

if 2S LVP is set by R1/R2 the MCU pin is blocked by this voltage divider, so no indicator LED feature in firmware NarsilM active

still you can light your sideswitch over the battery voltage, but without overdischarge protection as you directly drain the battery

This is true on any light (unless the indicator light was monitored by the LVP circuit), but I don’t think this is really an issue. I mainly use the sideswitch light to tell me if the rear switch is on or off. If I’m not using the light, I turn off the rear switch so there is zero drain.

could you upload your pictures to another hosting source not blocking 3. party use?

Once I find the time, I’ll look for a new hosting site.

I’ve got a couple thousand pics, so it’s going to take a while.

Recently Photobuckets website has been super slow due to all the people pulling their pictures off. I was able to get a few hundred, but gave up.

Hey Jason

can you post your side switch led with resistor?

tempting to mod mine too

Photos are not linked?

I’m trying Imgur and it seems okay, but not great.

Okay, due to high interest, I was able to get all the pics loaded up to Imgur. Holy cow, it took over an hour to do it. Maybe paying $400 a year to turn Photobucket back on is not such a bad deal. Lol

Just kidding.

Yea Imgur has become rediculous to upload pictures every since the photo bucket hosting price explosion.

In what way do you mean?

My complaint has to do with the folder structure. With Imgur, you can load a bunch of pics into a folder, but the folder has no thumbnail view. If I want to find a certain picture, I open the folder and then have to scroll down a super long page of full sized pics.

With Photobucket, they had thumbnails to easily find the picture I’m looking for.

I’m not sure, but I suspect that Imgur just dumps all your pictures into your account and lets you organize them in folders. You can delete a folder, but the images stay. IDK, it seems weird.

All I know is that it seems to be much slower uploading than before the changes with photo bucket. It seems almost that the servers are overloaded