FW3A Troubleshooting / FAQ

Thereā€™s no reset for your light.

I do the reset one time only few month agoā€¦ are you sure?

Power is connected before the signal tube for the switch, so holding the switch doesnā€™t work. You have to do 13H. If it doesnā€™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 donā€™t have the later model, so Iā€™m not sure.

From Toykeeper:
From a regular ā€œoffā€ 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 donā€™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.

So we have all FW3A not resettable?

Itā€™s unknown. Maybe newer ones have it, but older ones are still being sold from their inventory. You would need to do the 13H to find out if yours has it or not.

I try but nothing happenā€¦ 12 click, 13 click or maybe 14 clickā€¦ just for fun :person_facepalming:

Why the sad face? None of my lights have the reset and it is no big deal. They work just fine. :smiley:

Yes men, all of my light are oldā€¦ only the Astrolux FT03 has reset :beer:

I love my fw3a deep carry clips, and have about 3 extra at all times for other lights they fit on as well as if I buy a new fw3a. But I have had the ā€œreturnā€ part of the clip catch on things and pull away from the rest of clip, permanently bending it, happen multiple times. It just happened right now, getting into my car, here is a picture of what I mean:

I usually just end up cutting the return part off with an angle grinder, sanding the edges and moving on. Anyone else have this happen to them? Is it just me? I have other clips that have returns on them like this, and they get caught on things, but never permenently bend like the fw3a clip . Itā€™s really annoying whe it happens and it always happens to me, this clip is about 2 weeks old and now Iā€™m averaging 100% of the time I use a new fw3a deep carry, I bend the return out and ā€œruinā€ it. I have heated it and Bent it back into place before, but it just keeps happening. I wonder if these clips arenā€™t hardened steel like others may be? Any info would be awesome. Thank you.