FW3A Troubleshooting / FAQ

Hi, i am in trouble with reset.
Any help?
I try 4 times to rotate the head after click and press switch with battery inserted.
The light ramp low to high but it do not switch off.
Any help?

Have you cleaned the threads and all contact points of head and body?

Loosen the head and make sure the tail is very tight then reattach the head.

What does it do when you try to switch it off? Does the led glow very faint or does it stay at it’s set brightness?
If it ramps, that means the switch is working.

I don’t know if i understand correctly but when i choose the ramp mode after the reset i have always my 4 preset levels… not 7

Is your light a newer one that has the reset function?

You do not rotate the head to reset it. From the off position you click the switch quickly 13 times and hold it down on the last one.

I may not be understanding you.

Are you trying to switch from stepped ramping to the smooth ramping?

Or are you trying to change from 4 brightness levels to 7 brightness levels?

I Buy FW3A 31 Ago 2019
If I try to click 13 times nothing happen
For reset I have to unscrew the tail and press button before screwback.
I don’t want to unscrew tail so I do the reset with the head
To make sure the reset has been done I try Ramp mode but there are 4 levels and not 7…so nothing as been reset

There’s no reset for your light.

I do the reset one time only few month ago… are you sure?

Power is connected before the signal tube for the switch, so holding the switch doesn’t work. You have to do 13H. If it doesn’t work, the light does not have factory reset. Lumintop was very late with using a newer firmware.

From off, try 13 fast clicks and hold the last one. The led should do something.

Or try 13 fast clicks and hold on the 12th or 14th one.

I don’t have the later model, so I’m not sure.

From Toykeeper:
From a regular “off” state, click 13 times and hold the last click for a few seconds. Then keep holding the button for 3 seconds. The light should flash an increasingly bright warning, during which time the user can let go to abort without any changes. Then after 3 seconds, it gives a bright flash and fades back to nothing. This indicates the reset has completed.

Instead of doing a reset, you can change the number of steps.

Make sure you are in stepped ramping mode, not smooth.

Turn light On.
Do 4 fast clicks

Let the light do the first flutter, then let it do the second flutter.
When it is doing the third flutter, click 7 times. Then let it finish.

Now you should have 7 steps.

I know I know, thank you :+1:

I would like to do a reset is for the temperature sensor

I don’t remember where, but I read in forum that I have to press the switch for 3 seconds after screw tailcup.
There is a mode for understand if my fw3a is compatible with reset or not?

The FW3A was NEVER meant to be reset by disconnecting power. It HAS to be done through the 13H clicks (assuming it has the reset software option).

I have a video on how to reset the thermals.

Make sure the light is internally at room temp.

Video is not available

Martin has one also.

Thank you

The reset is available from what date?

Hard to say for the FW3A because Lumintop started very, very late with using a newer firmware. Not sure if they even use a version with reset yet.