Mini Review: TLF/BLF FW3A Strobe Modes

Thanks for the update. I thought it used the ramp ceiling? I’ve modified my review.

Thanks for sharing stephenk, I love these photographs…. :beer:

I like too

Thank you all. Looking forward to using the FW3A in more complex scenes.

Nice artistic pictures. There is endless possibilities thanks to the Anduril UI.

Those light painting pictures look beautiful! :sunglasses:

Anduril doesn’t make pretty pictures… it just blinks a light on and off. Stephenk makes the pretty pictures. :slight_smile:

Stephenk makes the pretty pictures.

I agree and would love to have some….

Nice picture, very interesting (y)

Thanks for the comments. Can’t wait to do some serious light painting creations with the FW3A.

Lightning Storm mode in a BLF GT type light would benefit from using full power FET instead of the highest regulated mode. just saying…

Lightning mode pays no attention to FET vs regulated modes. It spans the whole brightness range… at random.

Looking at it now though, I did find a small bug. The range is level 2 to 143, but it was intended to be 2 to 150. So I just fixed that.

It won’t hit the highest level very often though, because it’s random with a low bias. This makes most of the flashes less bright, and the really bright ones only happen once in a while… like in a real storm. When I was writing that code, I had an actual lightning storm outside for comparison, so I adjusted things to look like what I saw out the window.

I used the candle flicker mode for a romantic evening last night.

@ stephenk, I knew you’d do something gorgeaus with all the strobes on the FW3A :wink: Awesome work :wink:

We can wait for that TK :innocent: It has been nice to play with the light so far and all the blinking modes :partying_face:

Great job, we like it, and more! :+1:

Thanks for all the kind comments. A couple more:

Bike flash mode

Tactical strobe 80Hz

@StephenK — excellent work! I’m intrigued by your results. On your site is there a video showing a little of how you produce these?

I used to work in meteorology while serving the USAF. I observed many lightning storms. I have to say, the FW3A lightning mode is very convincing! I’m very curious to know what kind of mathematical randomizing formula you came up with for it. Naturally, real thunderstorms can have long gaps between lightning, so yours are shortened a bit for user satisfaction. But it’s nicely done.

Another light painting photo (Blade Portal) created using the TLF/BLF FW3A on party strobe mode.

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Cool :sunglasses:
Awesome work!!

◢◣ - nice work, Stephen! :beer: