Do somebody knows a flashlight host, which is suitable for MOSLED 4XP quad d=20mm , LD-B4 and any of the compatible circular edge Carclo optics together?
I am thinking about to build a flashlight with these components, as they seem to be very tempting, but I would need some additional preparation and help. Thank you in advance for any helpful input
Thank you very much. That would seem to be a nice host for it. I was just wondering, and now I just take note, but I will schedule that build at some point
Is there any chance to get your LD4 driver with e-switch firmware in the near future? I am highly interested to use it in the new Sofirn C8F since this one is only available with tailclicky and side switch. Meanwhile the one without side switch is hard or impossible to get.
I'm finally close to an end of designing other stuff (mostly pcbs, large batch of various designs is coming within 2-3 weeks ), which took a lot of time and money, so drivers upgrade is one of the next things on to-do list (I left them last because they require a lot of time for developing).
They will be 31.4mm in diameter, so they should fit X6, there is small possibility they will not fit on some hosts because of production tolerances, but in that case there is maybe ~0.1mm material to sand down, and that should be very easy because PCBs have 5.5mm central holes, so you can use battery drill in combination with M5 screw+some washers to quickly sand it down.
That's probably ~100years (almost) old technology, FET works in linear mode (hence the name linear regulator) as variable resistor (from few MegaOhms to few miliOhms), analog electronics+ uC controls FET so that output current remains constant.
In theory it's simple, in practice not so much if you want wide output current range (from mA to 10-20A),low internal resistance,small size etc.
I will start with driver firmware/hardware upgrade soon, I was too busy with other stuff for quite a bit of time. But since change will not be cosmetic (pretty much complete redesign+e-sw+high power variants), this will take some time.
I got an impression that it wouldn’t be a quick job as it requires porting software to ATTiny1617 or to Pic16 or finding board space for ATTiny85. But nothing terrible either, especially that there’s good change someone would provide porting assistance.
Other than this I don’t think it would be hard. But then - I know very little about how it’s really done, so I may be very wrong.