I have a 20mm lexel driver so it might be ok on that side but this is a good point. Overly complicated driver shelf and Alu ring. Almost better to use 17mm and spacer
Just a quick check. Does anybody know if it’s safe buying from AE official store at this point or is it likely I will still receive a light with a dodgy FET? Many thanks.
Received a reply from Qidong Yang:
“Yes,the MOSFET problem has been solved already, the stock now has already improved”.
So it looks like it should be safe to order from AE.
Apparently we need to wait a little bit longer for Amazon. I’ve asked on AE and just got the answer:
“The AMZ not yet, because of the new produce batch is still on its transfer way to USA”
Also they advised to check directly with Amazon for the latest updates.
I haven’t heard anything about it. I doubt they will do a flat tail cap for the 21700 version as the UI has that neat feature that let’s you use the tail switch for tactical use.
You can set your brightness then turn the light off at the tail cap (not the side switch). Then you can use the rear mounted forward clicky in a tactical manner. It’s pretty smart.
If you turn the light off with the side switch, the rear switch does nothing except connect main power. The led stays off. I like it. :+1:
So what you are saying is you are going to convince ToyKeeper to write a special C8F firmware to mimic this momentary mode memory deal so we can have the best of both worlds after replacing the driver or building a host? Sounds good thanks for doing that.
I know that. Jason has talked about the idea of replacing his driver so I assume it would be Narsil/Anduril variant and this is the host thread after all. I bought 2 hosts and 0 stock lights hence the nudge from me.
I don’t think NarsilM can remember it’s levels when the main power is removed. RampingIOS/D4 UI seems to remember. I have not tried Anduril yet.
I could see this being a handy feature for a light like the L6, S70 or SP70. I don’t know how difficult the coding would be, though. Maybe I will ask ToyKeeper what she thinks. It may or may not be possible.
With my L6 I had Lexel set up Narsil to go to Turbo when main power was applied. Sometimes this comes in handy, sometimes not. It would be great to be able to switch back and forth.
I think there is still some type of bottleneck in the 21700 driver even with a top notch FET. It seems the 18650 driver can have higher output than the 21700 driver when both use the same 21700 high drain battery.
I’m not complaining though. I measure about 3,000 lumen with the stock battery and my lumen numbers are a bit lower than others. So it should easily do over 3,000 lumen with the new driver (I assume it will match my current driver with the FET I installed).
Maybe Sofirn could increase the led wire guage to get even more output.