I might get it just for the heck of it. Roll the dice. If I don’t like it, I can always give it away. At the very least it does have a nice UI. It’s probably the only Narsil base light that has built-in charging from the factory.
I don’t know, I’ll keep thinking about it.
Texas_Ace, does the ramping go all the way to Turbo or does it stop short and you have to double click to get Turbo?
I am not sure what the “proper fix” is as I was not ever really aware of the issue but I did not notice any issues with the optics in the prototypes.
The optic has alignment pins for the mcpcb and the optic itself sits on a ledge cut into the head.
It stops short and uses a double click to turbo. Thus far there has been an vast majority approval of this method both from the feedback I have gotten directly and from the manufactures.
Naturally some prefer the ramp go all the way to turbo and there is nothing wrong with that but for Joe public I feel that the ramp stopping short is the better option.
About where does it stop, 1000 lumen?
I modded both my S42 with lexel’s driver…I think that’s still the better way to go. It has better components and better looking of course. I converted one into a triple, and plan on doing the same thing to the other one as well.
Yes, around ~55-60% output generally. Anything less then this and the step up to turbo is virtually un-noticeable like in the first GT.
I like the finger grooves on the battery tube and think it makes the light look better. And I can live with the bezel if that’s what is going to ship. Not that big of a deal to me.
Sadly the BG battery tube is there to stay as they have already been produced it seems.
Are they going to make a stainless steel S43S version of this as the S41S and S42S?
That I do not know, if the S43 sells well I bet they would, with the current looks I am not sure if it will sell good enough for that though.
I found this on the Banggood page
Is this wrong stuff from the old S42?
I see problems:
You can’t ramp from off, it shuts off after 1.5 seconds.
You have two electronic lock outs: NarsilM and breathing light.
@Texas Ace
Can you test this on the prototype?
I hope Banggood wrote BS
Yes, that is just a copy / paste from the old S42.
They decided for some reason to wire the LED’s so that both of them are used for the charging and Narsil does not get an LED in the switch. In fairness though I did not realize I would need to specify this in detail until it was too late.
The driver uses narsil 1.3 and all functions are the same. TomE just had to make some back end changes to work with the different pinout that this driver used.
It does have the normal lockout function in Narsil but nothing more.
So it does breath green and and I can switch this off?
If the pinout is different then I can’t flash regular Andúril to it? I need to modify firmware?
If you wait a bit, I am sure someone will make an Andúril version.
The switch LED’s only light up if you plug in the USB for charging. You can change this by moving one of the wires on the driver if you desire to re-enable the Narsil indicator LED.
Correct, the pinout will need to be changed a little. Pretty sure that TK make this fairly simple in Anduril.
If it is popular I am sure someone will at some point as well.
Good, which wire do I need to move? - I don’t care about charging in the light