I'm still working on my cover story. Maybe if I mod my Convoys with illuminated tailswitches I can confuse her.
My fall back would be to distract with a gift, but she's not a jewelry person, so I've got to figure out something else.
I keep hoping that if she sees the right copper, brass, anodized titanium, or otherwise fancier lights, she'll catch the bug. So far, it hasn't worked.
Fear not. I’m joking about the distress over how to explain it to or hide it from my wife.
I do expect to have to endure a 3rd degree eye roll and occasional teasing about an excessive number of flashlights, but both of us make discretionary purchases for ourselves rarely enough that items in this price range are a, “do we have a place to store it?” discussion, rather than a, “can we afford it?” topic. It’s definitely not a matter where reciprocation is demanded, although I would like to think of a comparable gift.
Or you cold always use Nev’s approach , although I definitely would not recommend it if you want your state of ‘maritial bliss’ to continue very long.
. Flashlight Collection Downsizing
Well the last time when i bought a super big flashlight as a toy for myself (a 12” diameter HID, some 100W ballasts etc), my wife actually did jokingly “demand” that I get her a Chanel bag for her birthday! :person_facepalming: :money_mouth_face:
As for the other flashlights, luckily she thinks that i am paying like 1/3rd-1/5th the price that we are paying, coz as you’d all know we get it online, and online is always way cheaper than retail.
To drain three 3000mAh cells in a week, it would have to be running at about 53 mA. This shouldn’t be possible when the main LEDs are off though, because the MCU can only use about 6 mA by itself, and the aux LEDs can’t use even 1 mA… so the upper bound for those together is about 6 or 7 mA, even if something isn’t working right.
So I’m thinking it’s probably something else, like a metal shaving causing a small short… or something along those lines. But I don’t really know.
Regardless, the first step is to measure. Could you measure the standby power usage with a DMM? I would like to find out how much power it uses, and how that value changes over the first ~30 seconds of standby time. Also would be helpful to see if the value changes at all depending on how the button is pressed.
The aux leds have their own lvp that should kick in. One of his lights does not have the aux leds so it’s probably running NarsilM. His other light is newer and has the aux leds.
It is happening on 2 lights from the same person. I already asked if he could measure the current draw using a single battery, but he doesn’t have the equipment.
Going back to posts from a couple of days ago…… My light had the flickers at the low end of ramping. I fixed it: The contact between the battery cage and the head had a tiny bit of thread grease on it. Used a Kleenex to clean it. Problem has never returned.
I'm still convinced that something is not right with my ceiling. I click 4 times, let it flash once and then it flutters, so I set my floor at 1 then after after about 2 seconds I let it blink and then do nothing so that it can set the ceiling to max brightness, but it's still quite a bit less bright than my first rot66. Is there anyway to go past the ceiling that is set in Anduril? Or, is there a way that I can get NarsilM into this flashlight and see what happens? It could be possible that Anduril is somehow limiting max output when compared to NarsilM..... just a guess.
I have a light colored marble floor in our hallway and it's great to do a ceiling bounce. The Anduril rot66 shines the marble floor quite a bit dimmer off the ceiling bounce compared to my NarsilM light. It's almost as if the wow factor is missing.
I’m kind of wondering if there might be a cell in backward or something. Or maybe a chip on the driver lets current through while it’s off. It’s hard to say.