I also have 4 LED boards for side switch on the L6, so always one switch is lit
L6 as e-switch light has limited current on the tail one as the bleeder resistor needs to to be pretty high (0.15-0.3mA)
Ill get in next days a L6 to mod then I can test the driver, the L2 driver has an odd behavior that you do not need a bleeder as the driver bleeds already to an LED Tail board
Looks very nice Lexel! I have a hard enough time matching same color LEDs and experimenting with resistor values in my lighted tailcaps, let alone the complexity of what you have done. I admire your ingenuity. :+1:
I did today more testing with my Convoy L6 drivers and illuminated tail caps
Final result is that with the parts I use on the driver I can feed up to 1mA to the tail cap without using a bleeder resistor, so there is no standby drain from a bleeder at all when the light is switched on over the tail switch
This is likely due to the voltage regulator I use that is so friendly and bleeds for me to the tail cap
The rainbow board is designed to light up equally bright even with the cell voltage dropping down to about 3-3.4V depending on brightness and Bleeder resistor values
Yes I know its late but I am super busy with some big projects with flashlight companies as well with the usual driver orders
2. generation with bugfix I got to here ready to be build, just need to work to make a proper sales topic
3. Generation with LVP and low battery warning I got the boards now here but unfortunately the ICs are backordered to 27. June
this LVP needs also some testing before I can hopefully sell v1 of the boards or may need to make a bugfixed board
If you’re interested in colored E17A….but limited to only white (CW/WW), red, green, blue, and amber. The advantage is all of them have same forward voltage. Should be interesting for TIR accent light because they can be driven (officially) up to 1000mA (700mA for the Green). Green (NCSGE17ATE) is extremely bright. Some samples already on their way to Djozz.
difference in forward voltage is solved with a 2.8V LDO
There is no goal to have a powerful secondary color it is to have a devorative low glow like with tritium vials, but even low currents like 0.2mA total blast every tritium away like hell,
to got with RGBW lights best solution is to cut traces on MCPCB and connect each LED on its own