Are you going to list flashlight hosts with batteries as well? For the custom modders you know. If you can ship a light with a battery you can probably ship a host with a battery too…
Just for reference, I also remember flashing crescendo in a BLF A6 driver (attiny13) and no matter the clicks, I couldn’t get to the config menu.
At the time I thought that my driver was bad so I flashed back to the original firmware, but now I am starting to see a pattern
AFAIK the Cresendo firmware made for Attiny13A is a slimmed down version of the one made for Attiny25. I don’t think the Attiny13A version has those fancy blinkies, memory and the option to toggle memory on/off.
To be honest, I am currently taking a look at Cresendo’s code and the only notable difference between ATTINY 13 & 25 is the amount of brightness levels that each mcu support.
@Simon Mao, maybe you can experiment with defining a different driver type (NANJG, FET_7135, TRIPLEDOWN) depending the driver you are using.
The complete Crescendo UI code is too large to fit onto the memory space in an ATTiny 13, so TK created an condensed version for the ATTiny 13 and unfortunately the space used for the Config Menu and hence Memory Toggle were dropped.
If one spends some time whittling through the Crescendo source code, it should be possible to either set Memory On permanantly w/o toggle ability and/or trade some other features (e.g. blinkies, battery check, ramp smoothness, etc.) to restore Memory mode… I was successful getting memory to work on two ATTiny 13 based drivers.
Reylight has an AA/14500 driver that goes Moon - Low - Med - High. With 8 taps to disable/enable memory. I wish they sold it separately somewhere.
A small Convoy light with an AA/14500 driver with low to high mode order and the ability to turn memory on and off, and very fast or no PWM would be great.
That need to be a huge light. even one XHP50.2 generates a lot heat. A triple neet to have at least L6 size head and need to run on 3-4 18650s or 21700.
In real use, turbo mode is rarely needed. The advantage is that a with 3*XHP50.2 or 4*XHP50.2 flashlight will be able to produce up to ~ 2000-2500 Lm for a long time without triggering the thermal control.