Fireflies ROT66 Flashlight

Oh yeah, exactly like that.

Yes, the 1x7135 power channel stays on, steady, when the Nx7135 channel is active. And both stay on, steady, when the FET is active… Except for the very last ramp step, where it’s FET-only.

Nearly all multichannel lights since the BLF-A6 have done things this way, because nobody has found a better solution yet without major hardware changes.

it would be possible in the ramping table when the FET gets active after like 25% FET slowly decrease the AMC output level, but in fact of having them on reduces PWM on the light output and different PWM frequencies dont interfere with each other

Just fyi here, I recently, like last week, tweaked NarsilM to run FET+1 on a triple channel driver. I did this in order to use a TA 30 mm triple driver, sanded down to 28 mm, in a Maeerxu M8 without using up my very limited supply of the "good" 7135's.

So in theory if this flashlight uses the regular design "TA" design for the triple channels, it can also run as a FET+1, Q8 style, just not taking advantage of the bank of 7135's. Wish I could find a source to buy the good 7135s at reasonable pricing.

Those here seem to be good
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/20PCS-LOT-AMC7135PKFT-AMC7135-7315-SOT89-new-and-original/32802106042.html

That's the German Ali, to US, shipping more than doubles the price. For the global site at the same named store, it's a different deal qty 10 for $1.51 no tracking, or if I order 100 (10 of qty 10), it's about $20, 0.20 each with tracking. Think I'll order the 100 deal w/tracking.

Hope I get what they pictured though - the "raptor claw" versions? Last batch I ordered from somewhere sent me the bad versions. Ali had been real good though with refunds when you don't get what you expected.

Thanx!!

I wish do that for you.

How much?

I will inquire first.

Edit: 100=$5.41

I just paid bout $20 for 100 shipped w/tracking. Might be able to find them cheaper. Old pricing for us used to be 50 cents (Illumn, IOS, etc.), than FastTech became the defacto standard supplier here: fasttech-qty100-amc7135-350ma, for like 8 cents each at this qty, but no longer could guarantee what version they would send you. I'm hoping this Ali store will at least ship out what they show in the picture.

I found one potential bug in this are. This is a triple channel driver, so in this state, it's possible to choose mode sets 9 to 12, except they don't exist for a triple channel configuration. What happens as a result is uncertain - it accesses invalid locations in memory, so who knows what bad data references will result in.

Is it possible you tried selecting a mode set above 8?

No, I’ve only used the default mode set (4) with four modes + moon.

Ok, back to the drawing board...

Actually, I’m a bit worried about the extreme difference between advertised and measured lumen output of the XP-L HI NW. If I recall correctly the ANSI method states lumen output at/after 30s of runtime. So, we have 6.650lm vs. 10.000lm (for the cw V3 1A), i.e. this flashlight only achieves 66.5% of its advertised specs, is that correct? Okay, one could say the nw version might have A BIT lower output - even though it’s the same V3 binning - but 33,5% less seems far too much to me. I’m not even using those expensive VTC5A with low internal resistance but the usual VTC6. Thus I might experience even less lumens than charles lin did with his light.

I’m also wondering how much regulated output would remain with 14 AMCs on the board.

Fireflies test of the 219B version in a 1.5 meter integrating sphere reports a peak reading of 5236 lumens running on 3 VTC6 cells.

So what is the equivalent peak lumens reading Maukka got? I can't find it in the posted result in post #135.

I think first we need to see apples to apples. Then take a look at what that reading really means - Fireflies posted integrating sphere report is probably instantaneous, not at 30 seconds.

Of course it would be great if Fireflies and Maukka used the identical light, identical cells at the same charge level, but I suppose that's not happening? If not, we should expect a possible swing of 5-10% but I think it should be closer than that. Even if you have 7% LED variance, the chances of all 9 LED's varying the same way is pretty remote.

These integrating sphere are all terrific, but they require meticulous usage, regular calibration, and understanding and proper reporting of the results.

Looking at the XPL-HI V3 CW report, it's 9660 lumens at the peak. So I guess Fireflies rounded up to 10000 lumens, but still it's a peak, not after 30 seconds. So Charles lin reported in post #197 he measured 7480 lumens at the peak on VTC5A cells. That's still a big difference of 22.6%, so the questions are is someone's measurements tools way off or are the 2 lights compared different in some way?

And the step-down setting should also be taken into consideration. My ROT66 will step-down before 30s when the default is used. And, with three VTC6s, when step-down is completely disabled, I got ~5050 lumen at 0s and ~4500 lumens at 30s. My DIY sphere is not supposed to be accurate but the relative difference between 0s and 30s was ~10% then.

Still testing, but I get 4325 lm at turn on, 3860 lm at 30 sec with 3x30Q. Complete review coming in a couple of days.

I changed the temp limit. Mine was stepping down a bit too prematurely with factory settings. Now it steps down at about 60 sec. Should back up a bit since it’s getting up to 65°C right now.

Wow, that’s lower than my expectation. Since the Turbo is driven by pure FET and thus can vary greatly due to numerous reason, maybe we should take the max regulated brightness (7x7135) as a base. On my ROT66, the peak output is 5050 / 715 = ~700% if compared with the stabilized 7x7135 brightness. Or 5050 / 740 = ~680% if compared with 7x7135 at 0s.

30Q's should get lower results than VTC6's, but not that much lower based on my Q8 tests - this is 17.4% lower than Fireflies integrating sphere results. So something is off, or the lights tested are different, or little of both.

On 7x7135 mine is 710 at 0 sec. So peak is 609% (6.09*710=~4325).

I suppose you mean 609%, right? My 7x7135 was close to 730 740 at 0s, and it stabilized at 715 after an hour. My numbers are probably on the higher side, however the peak to 7x7135 ratio seems not as high as expected on your sample :open_mouth:

Of course, typo.