Anyway, some pictures. My camera doesn’t pick up the aux LED colors very well though. They’re a lot more vibrant than they look in the pictures, and a lot more different from each other. But since the LEDs are narrow-band colors, my camera’s RGB sensor apparently doesn’t know what to do with it.
Also, kind of experimenting with watermarking because it’s getting old seeing my pics used by companies to sell stuff. So I ran a really early proof of concept script on the pics to put some minimal identifying info in them. I’ll have something nicer-looking later.
don’t worry about making your watermarks nicer
make them harder to circumvent or crop out
we appreciate your stuff and don’t mind reading between the lines
Thanks TK. I agree make it a larger watermark on the product so it can’t simply be cut out, unless you plan to actually sue them.
Those pics show off the color difference between the champagne and desert yellow, first I’ve seen together. I wonder why they didn’t stick with champagne this time.
The driver has reflashing pads on the spring side, which should be compatible with Lexel’s flashing key. So it can be reflashed without removing the driver.
But I don’t know if it can be reflashed without removing the aux LEDs. Lexel’s previous designs were all incompatible with the flashing process, so it was necessary to unsolder one of the aux LED board wires before reflashing. That might still be the case, but I won’t find out until I get a suitable flashing key.
My guess is that you’d need to unsolder one of the aux LED wires at the front of the light, then flash the driver, then solder the wire back on. Because the current regulation used on the aux LED board may interfere with the flashing protocol. Same reason why the aux LED board doesn’t have a low mode.
Maybe a lawyer letter pointing out that by using your image (which is automatically copyrighted), they have agreed to send you a baker’s dozen of the flashlight pictured.
Surely there’s a shrinkwrap agreement to be asserted here.
About the watermark thing, I’ll fix it eventually. This was just a quick test to make sure it could be done automatically as a batch using a short script. I don’t actually care enough to do a manual process, like manually adjusting the placement and opacity for each image. So I’ll adjust the input files and parameters to make it just barely visible on a wide variety of images, and probably get some sort of logo to put in the corner.
This quick test was just “use the simplest boldest font on my computer so I can get the script working”.
I was also kind of having fun experimenting with global illumination in order to reduce and soften shadows.
I just got the Fireflies PL47, and I notice the Aux-LEDs can be in 3 states: Off, On(High?), Blinking.
Whereas in the Emisar D4S, it has 4 possible states, Off, Low, High, Blinking.
(on the BLF Q8/Sofirn Q8 with Anduril, the side button can also be in 4 possible states: Off, Low, High, Blinking)
I notice the PL47 does have similar programming pins as the D4S, but you mentioned that with the Lexel board (PL47), I wouldn’t be able to just flash it (assuming I’m able to align my ordinary-type ATTiny programmer device with some pins to flash it)?
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Maybe they initially planned it to be champagne gold like the ROT66, but anodizing turned it too yellow, so they now call it desert yellow. ;-p
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“Maybe they initially planned it to be champagne gold like the ROT66, but anodizing turned it too yellow, so they now call it desert yellow.”
A flashlight that holds 7 LEDs to California? Fuhgeddaboudit.
Better be 5 LEDs or less and only one can be turned on per switch press. Plus it includes something called a “clip”? Will be caught up in bureaucratic red tape forever thanks to that.