TK's Emisar D4V2 review

You don’t like wood? :open_mouth:

Okay, but if the room temperature is set correctly, can the light be damaged if you set the max temperature as high as it will go? (IIRC, I think that is 70C.)

IMO, the light should protect itself. Otherwise, you have essentially a “suicide feature” programmed into the light as a valid setting. If it can’t operate at 70C, you shouldn’t be able to set it that high.

FWIW, the Narsil lights I have (like the Astrolux S43) seem to operate fine at 70C. Damn hot, for sure, but they haven’t melted down on me. (Internal temperature blinks out low 70’s when I shut off the light.)

I understand you don’t want to operate it at that temperature for long periods, because you risk heating up the battery beyond its 75C-80C safe operating temperature. But these lights heat up the head (where the thermostat is) far more than the body tube.

It does not really solve my problem as I explicitly like the momentary function (press and hold/release), but I am curious (and thanks nevertheless): How do I enable it, searching for “manual” in the FW3A PDF manual did only reveal an easter egg that was written with white font on the first page:

Edit: Found it in ~toykeeper/flashlight-firmware/fsm : contents of ToyKeeper/spaghetti-monster/anduril/anduril-manual.txt at revision 492 - Am I blind or is that simply not in the PDF manual? Is it not available for the FW3A then? The 5 clicks does not seem to do anything there as far as I can see (and as stated earlier).

Edit 2: I see this feature was only added very recently: ~toykeeper/flashlight-firmware/fsm : revision 424 so FW3A won’t have it I assume.

Does your car prevent you from driving with excessively worn brake pads? The motherboard for my computer won’t prevent me from applying too much voltage to my CPU when I overclock. I could find examples all day long. You accept the risk when you do those things.

People should take responsibility for their ignorance. :smiley:

TK’s firmware does a good job preventing overheating issues but components may fail prematurely when exposed to excessive heat. You don’t accidentally change thermal settings, maybe it is possible but I surely never have and certainly it is almost impossible to set them so high without the knowledge of how to do it. It is too expensive and time consuming to calibrate the temp sensor in every flashlight. The majority of users appreciate the ability to set the thermal ceiling, because we know what we are doing and can use a IR thermometer to do so. The bottom line is don’t modify something unless you are willing to bear the risk.

Correct it missed the cut off for that feature. Maybe in the second round of drivers

once again could someone who knows how please describe the steps for setting this light back to DEFAULT. (thanks).

teacher does a great job of explaining it in the link below. Check the second heading of his post titled “Thermal Configuration & Protection”

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/56661/3

Wrong joke. :wink:

With the factory reset function (which, unfortunately, wasn’t made until after D4V2 was produced):

  1. Let the light settle to room temperature, ~21 C or so.
  2. Loosen tailcap. Hold button, tighten tailcap, continue holding button for ~4 seconds.
  3. Let go after the bright flash.

Without the factory reset function (which is how the first batch of D4V2 works):

  1. Exit muggle mode, if you’re in it. Or exit momentary mode. Or exit lockout mode. Or whatever. Get back to regular “off” mode.
  2. For each setting, navigate to that setting and change the value. Settings include:
    • Smooth ramp floor / ceiling.
    • Stepped ramp floor / ceiling / number of steps.
    • Smooth/stepped ramp toggle.
    • Turn off manual memory.
    • “Off” mode aux LED color and pattern.
    • “Lockout” mode aux LED color and pattern.
    • Beacon mode speed.
    • Which strobe-group mode is active?
    • Speed / brightness for each strobe-group mode.
    • Temperature sensor calibration.
    • Temperature limit.
  3. Repeat for each setting in the list. May require looking up defaults in the source code (usually just the light-specific config file).

So… a complete reset to defaults is generally not recommended. There are several things to configure, and the details are different for each. Most people probably want to just identify which particular setting they want to change, and then change it.

Does anyone know a source of single 10621 optics in the UK (or EU)? Ive been wanting to try one out for a while but no one seems to be selling them in anything but large order quantities. MTN shipping is too expensive

Mine arrives today!

sand, xpl 3a

Oh my, that’s a lot of muscle and flesh to take in. Especially on my monitor at work…

You’re right though, why would TK be interested in anybody who clearly doesn’t have the pockets to carry at least two flashlights at once? This isn’t an r/buttlight scenario is it?

Probably best you don’t look that subreddit up…

Conrad

I’ve had luck with Arrow before.

Arrow got rid of their free shipping for orders under $50 :frowning:


nice! Maybe someone will appreciate this light and do a write up on it. Can’t believe the lack of fanfare on this light. Or maybe it’s a dud and not deserving of any fanfare at all. I’m perplexed honestly. Emisar has always been rather exceptional. Several are in possession of the light and very little spoken about it. Yadayadayada.

TK’s review is so thorough and most people who went with Free shipping dont have their light. Give it a week or so

well, TK said the same thing, WAIT until they have the light. But in other offerings MUCH has always been said in anticipation of a great new offering. I am excited about this light. Mine has arrived close by, should have it any day now. Sure , I have a D4, but it’s the aux LEDs of the D4v2 that I’m giddy about …… oh, and momentary strobes :wink:

Who cares what’s said before people have it in their hands?

I ordered some parts to try and make a few flashing keys. There’s some anticipation for you