Update everyone, I have been in a bit of a hiatus lately as i was diagnosed with the COVID-19 and became ill for a few weeks, and currently recovered but have a lot on my plate with life’s struggles, financial struggles, job struggles, etc. I do hope to get back to BLF as soon as i can to continue the LT1-Mini project, and future Lantern projects.
Glad to hear you have made it through to the other side, Den. Here’s to wishing you a full recovery and success at overcoming ther other obstacles you’re facing.
Right, I should probably add SOS to the lantern’s UI diagram… forgot about that.
Also, apparently I got the timing wrong for SOS. It blinks out “S O S” as three separate letters, using the official timing standards… but it seems that “SOS” is meant to be transmitted as if it were a single letter, with none of the usual pauses between. So I fixed that, but it was only a few days ago.
It’s a really minor thing though… it just changes from “S O S” to “SOS”.
About the tempcheck mode, there is no thermal regulation on the lantern, so all temperature-related functions have been removed. The reason is because the temperature sensor is nowhere near the LEDs, so it can’t sense the temperature of the parts which matter.
this is an awesome project and I am very happy with the LT1 that I received yesterday. Thanks to all people that were involved in the creation of this fine lantern! I always appreciate the possibility to have a lot of features and being able to customize them, even though it can be a little confusing with just one button. Therefore I created my own small manual for placement in the battery compartment based on the one made by AmishBill, but compiled a little bit differently to fit my needs.
There are some LT1 with old version left. We decide to makes deal for these lantern on our website. You can get old lantern kit with $10 OFF than LT1 new version now.
Besies, we will produce make colored New LT1 lantern Desert Tan, Green, Orange, Even bare aluminum, you name it when old Lt1 sell out basically.
1.How to distinguish old version from new version?
Just got mine yesterday and this lantern is awesome. I will try to get into all the programming sometime today. Also check to see if it has the latest firmware and the pods discussed are connected. I’d love to have a case for it. Won’t be hard to find something that will work.
I wish the button could be illuminated all the time. While the lantern is on the button light is off.
It’s difficult to find the button when the lantern is on.
Does anyone know if LT1’s are in stock anywhere in the USA? I’m looking for a quick shipping time if possible. If not, I’ll just order from the Sofirn website. Thanks!
P.S. If anyone has one brand new in the box, that they want to get rid of… send me a PM.
I had a similar idea to this 6 month old post from djozz, and his suggestion is the only post that seems to have turned up in my search.
I just wanted to add that if anybody does this, I’m interested as well - thin FRP or flex PCB from Oshpark, or else an MCPCB in a group buy.
Or perhaps Clemence might be interested? The LH351D’s are pretty good, but I’d love to how the lantern looks with Optisolis or E17A’s in there, and perhaps try a slightly different CCT range.
So is the difference between version 4.3 and 5.0 strictly the USB C-C functionality? Or have there been any minor adjustments to the other functionality?
Given the tube diameter, I’m wondering if a beer cozy might fit on this. It would be a way to change at least part of the color for those who don’t want to wait until September to have a different colored body from black.