Lucky you! I got my new charger. I received my 26650 yesterday. Hoping to see the light here really soon. Days are getting shorter and nights are getting longer again
About getting a wider beam… does anyone think swapping in a frosted glass lens of some kind would work out well?
D4S XP-L recieved today. The light is too good to be true. Does the V3 UI fit on the D1 and D4? Oh I just found the source code. Looks like I need a flashing interface.
P.S.: Charging up battery for current measurement.
Overall I love the new firmware! I love the new stepped ramping. Good job ToyKeeper. Thanks for all of your hard work.
I do have some feedback after using it a few days. The most annoying feature is not being able to exit momentary mode without pulling the battery. I understand why momentary mode has no exit. In my opinion it should take more than 4 clicks to activate it since the mode has no exit function built in. Because of timing idiosyncrasies I always seemingly activate momentary mode instead of lockout when the light is off. I find that I have to slow down my clicking. The fact that I have pull the battery to exit is frustrating, at least this is open source so I am going to reflash it with some changes.
The other other feedback that I have is that it takes longer for the light to turn off when in ramping mode. I guess because it is waiting to see if there is any more user input? But the delay seems oddly long.
I appreciate the flashing breakout being accessible.
Current on Turbo was everything between 11 and 18 Amps on turbo. It’s highly dependant on how hard you press on the battery while measuring. If you have short cells, I could imagine you’re missing out on quiet some current. Guess a bypass would be beneficial.
Is double click turbo affected by my ramp ceiling? I didn’t press anything when setting the ceiling, so I assume it’s on maximum? Well if I double click from off and then double click again when it’s on, it gets a bit brighter. is this intended? I thought turbo is turbo. Edit: This just happens with the stepped mode, on ramping double click is full power directly.
Each unit (tick) is 16 ms, so one second is 62 ticks. Higher values make it easier to enter long sequences, lower values make the entire interface respond faster.
I hope you weren’t expecting 16k lumens from a light this size with a single battery, especially without active cooling. The tech for that doesn’t even exist yet.
Ah nice thanks for the explanation. Then I correct myself on the maximum current for the XP-L Hi version to be between 16.5A and 18A on a Golisi 4200 cell.
So maximum ceiling in config is reached by pressing once during ceiling setup? Seems like in stepped it’s lower than in ramping.
And how do I reach the 3x7135 mode in stepped mode? Also with twist off and on?
Let me thank you for this great piece of UI. Just had the flashlight out with me. It’s just such a pleasure to use. I need more of them.
kept trying to compare, on a white wall, my new green D4S XP-L 3A to my grey D4 XP-L 3A….no way Jose!
I had to get out my Q8 to approximate the throw and brightness.