There was a bug on the first batch of Convoy’s new drivers which, after calculating the scale of the chips involved, worked out to having a few hundred atoms flipped the wrong way. Basically, the SRAM decays to its default state when power is removed, and that state depends on the orientation of the atoms in the SRAM memory cells. If a few specific bits had enough atoms rotated in the less-popular direction, it would decay to a value which caused problems.
So people returned products for refund or replacement, and justifiably so. Because, totally at random, if they were unlucky enough to have a few hundred atoms out of place, it didn’t work right.
As soon as we discovered the issue, I updated the code to take a larger sample, which dramatically reduces the chance of that happening. But due to the nature of these things, the chance is still non-zero.
I think the following tiny bug has not been mentioned before.
My D4S Nichia does not always save moonlight into memory.
Procedure to replicate: Light is off. Unscrew and screw again the tailcap to reset memory. Click and hold to start at moonlight. Release quick enough before (!) it starts ramping. Let it on as long as you wish. Switch off by a single click. Switch on again with a single click. Now the light starts at the power level from the reset state (when tailcap was screwed).
It actually just doesn’t save moonlight into memory with the above mentioned procedure. So the light might even start in turbo if that is the last used level.
If you just have the light on and ramp it fully down to moonlight, the level will be saved into memory flawlessly.
Maybe it’s just my model or maybe it’s not a bug, but a feature?
Try either holding it down longer or ramping up slightly then back down.
If it’s important that you absolutely start on moonlight just hold down the button a microsecond longer rather than clicking it. Pretty simple.
If it happens to go up a level then click click/hold to force it to ramp downward.
Indeed, that is not a bug. It was added on purpose because people wanted it. The memory only remembers the last level the user ramped to. Going to a level via shortcut, like moon-from-off or double-click-for-max, does not change the memorized level.
To make it remember a level, including moon, the user must ramp to it instead of using a shortcut.
In smooth ramp mode, is there supposed to be a little ‘hiccup’ somewhere half way through the ramp? By hiccup I mean a brief hesitation where it seems like the light shuts off for a split second and comes back on at a higher level, and then continues ramping up from there?
Also, I realized the Shockli cell doesn’t make contact with the terminals of my Miboxer C4-12. So now I’m stuck using the “slow” Lii-500 to charge it. Sigh.
I use the MiBoxer C4-12 to recharge my Shockli’s all the time…. check the negative terminal of your charger, you might have to bend it forward a bit so it stands straight up…
Pm says an unspecified manufacturer wants insider production details about Emisar lights. Even if Emisar shared that info with me, the answer would still be “no”.