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I just changed lockout momentary to act like momentary. Uses the memorized level.

Sorta a workaround for me not wanting to unscrew tail cap all the time.

Idea is:
In general I want the ramp start at moonlight.
And for normal carry I lock high power lights out.

It is for the same use case as Lockout momentary, but when you use it and realize you need more light, like: Oh, 1 lm is not enough I need ten times more.

I recently found a way to eliminate a bunch of code, to make room for new things. I’m hoping to do some fancy stuff with aux LEDs in that space, but no hardware exists for it yet.

Anyway, putting other-ramp floor on “click, hold” costs about 60 bytes and makes the light act a little weird when doing 4 clicks to unlock. Instead of “moon moon moon moon”, it goes “moon LOW moon moon” or “LOW moon LOW LOW”. So for now I think I’ll leave it as a compile-time option which isn’t enabled by default.

If there was ever a way to set the lockout brightness independent of moonlight/floor that would be one of thevfew improvements I could think of for Anduril.

Hello,

I am really late to this and would like to ask can this light be set to 3 modes like if I want Low 5 lumen, med 50 lumen, high 500 lumen if I don’t feel like using the ramping feature?

Can be done. I set mine to memorized level. So it acts like another momentary mode but 4 clicks will exit

Yep. That’s the “discrete ramp” feature you may see talked about for the Anduril firmware. When the light is on, 3 clicks switches between the smooth and discrete ramping. It’s a bit difficult to say what the exact output levels will be, but you can get roughly those ballparks.

By default, the discrete mode has 7 levels, and for the FW3A, the lowest discrete level will probably be around 5-10 lumens and the highest discrete level 800-1000 lumens*, but both the number of levels and the brightness of the minimum and maximum levels can be configured.

\ Assuming I understand the relationship between the 8 bit PWM values and resulting 7135 current correctly.

Yes, this is part of Anduril. Basically you change it to stepped mode and configure the levels yourself. Checkout the UI graphic or the anduril-manual.txt mentioned a few posts earlier.

Nice to hear. My ROT66 is one of the earlier aux LED versions with an entirely stand alone aux board, but maybe in the future I’ll see about a swap if the firmware offers more advanced functionality.

So, it is added? And it is only for the guys with a flash adapter!
Tank you Toykeeper! :+1: :beer:

Beside the “random” blink at unlock, does it feel useful?

I am already down for one, but can you add me for one more please

Toykeeper, it seems there are earlier posts in which you mentioned you have a prototype.

Can you make an Imgur album and give us the second best thing to an FW3A (a bunch of photos of an FW3A)?

Disassembled, assembled, next to other lights, sitting in snow, etc. Whatever you feel generous to provide.

Put me down for 1 more! :sunglasses:

One with LH351D for me, please.
Thank you!

I‘m usually active in the tlf but now it looks like both threads there are closed. Does someone here know more about that?

new links,now in “TLF-Fanartikel”

You have to be logged in to see this? :person_facepalming:

sorry, I only answered Joduk’s question.

Do we assume that means we are getting very close and they are not adding any more to the interest list? Or something worse?

I have an account at TLF and I also can’t view any of the FW3A threads anymore. What’s going on?