What did you mod today?

That UI sounds reasonable to me… The problem is, everyone has different tastes, and it’s frequently for me the 100% make-or-break reason to carry (or not) a light. Driver swaps are nice and everything, but there’s only a few of us that are able to swap more than the basic “easily moddable” Convoy-types. When I see a T-shaped driver, or the side-switch on the driver board, or odd driver shapes, or integrated charging, I’m usually out of luck for improving the UI.

Yeah sure mounting a MCU plus adapter-board isn't something everyone can do, but it's definitely a few steps simpler than custom-designing drivers for all the weird crap out there.

  • Zebralight UI seems good (although I find the old one kind of backwards, but workable, and would re-program the newer lights slightly)
  • Modern Olight UI works for me (the older UI on my S15 Ti is a bit odd, but workable)
  • Thrunite T10Tv2's UI works for me
  • I love the basics of Anduril/RampingIOS - there's lots of debate about the more advanced bits so I won't even address those here
  • And I love a good L-M-H with no memory for my clickies.

But man, so many brands just get it so wrong. Sofirn with its "you can start in moonlight but you can't get there from anywhere else", my Thorfires with their horribly slow, non-linear ramping. A NEBO light I own, which is fortunately not-bright enough that I just leave it on full brightness at all times and deal with it. It's a house-light for the muggles to grab lol. Wuben and Skilhunt keep getting it wrong, although I think Skilhunt is finally getting better on some recent models. Wuben even has two-switch models they couldn't get right!

my next project, this is a perfect walktrough!!!

I hate to derail this thread into a UI discuss, but as much as I love my Wuben TO50R, I don’t pick it up as much as I should because it always takes me a while to remember how to use it. Hold down this button? Nope. Click that one? Nope. Double click the first one? Nope. Argh!

I made custom driver for EDC05. It offers linear 3.2A, Anduril2, RGB switch.

3.2A linear in a AA sized host w/ Anduril2 is not something you just post a video about. This is straight up the pinnacle of modding for this light/size and needs more details :slight_smile:

edit; I left it unspoken but lets just put it out there. WELL DONE!

Very nice!

Reminds me… I should go back and redo my Utorch UT01 3 amp linear driver to use the attiny1616 so I can load Anduril2 on it.

Oh, so you made ut1 with anduril? Can you give me some link on PM?

You guys are making me jealous :cry:

I have a Manker E11 that could get one of those drivers :innocent:
Love that light, but the UI is not what I’d desire. But I have no skills to do something similar or whatsoever… :person_facepalming:

WallKiller: pretty cool :sunglasses:

It is possible to get hex file to fw3a from you (Contactcr)? I can’t send you PM (some BLF problems).
And i’ve got some attiny question to you (gchart) can you write me an email, because of this problems?

This is my email: adrian.gwis@gmail.com

The text of that post is a link to the detailed post including an Oshpark link. Hit me up on PM if you want.

Honestly, now that I modded the Sofirn SP10S with Anduril2 and it still retains AA boost functionality, it’s become my go-to AA/14500 light.

Hopefully it will revert in favour of the SP10S BLF Edition, which I thank :face_with_monocle: :partying_face:

The hex file link was in the post between the video and the last pic! Here: google drive link

Or if you want to compile it yourself, the ramp tables: #define RAMP_LENGTH 150#define PWM1_LEVELS 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 - Pastebin.com

Thank you so much.

Wow, nice one. And nice job moderator007. I use it every day as my bedside light. Awesome light.

Fet+1 into a Wuben E05 with a 4000k SST20. I sanded down a Mountain Electronics e-switch board and 3D printed a spacer that supports the switch. The switch board is then epoxied to the spacer. Really liking this one. I’ll be building a couple more.

Now there’s thinking outside the box on tricky switch situations! Nice job. I might have to employ that trick sometime.

loving the warm floody stepless rotary

lubricated control ring, and did lots of twists
got the dial turning nice and smooth, no more gritty Ti

added CRX glow gasket

added Sapphire Lens :heart_eyes:
(no blue AR coating)

great Golden Hour light!

I got a attiny 412 swapped on to one of the convoy t2 boost drivers I have been messing with. Huge thanks to gchart for sharing his clicky firmware. I tweaked it to pwm on pin PA2 to match the layout of the convoy driver and I increased the PWM frequency as that allows for a lower low mode on these drivers. The OTC is across pins 7 and 8.

After the pic was taken I put a jumper across the 0.2 ohm resistor that sits between the fet and led -.

With the resistor jumper in place I took current measurements at the LED (nichia 319) and got 1.8 mA on low and 1.01 A on high. I used a cheap meter with standard leads so actual current in normal use is probably slightly higher. Freshly charged energizer NiMH.

Awesome!! Nice job :beer:

Welcome to the AVR 1-Series club. Glad to have a another member on board. May I ask, which programmer did you use? And let me know if you think there is anything I should add to my guide thread.

I used the 416 xplained nano board.