I recieved my d4v2 and made a video reivew about and you can see both the optic shipped and the extra floody optic i purchases are different. Emisar D4v2 All Copper E21A nichia 3500k overview this is the thread for the video and my thoughts. I do have one question as i noted in the video. when I set my floor to lowest, when I ramp from low to high and then high to low it turns off the leds completely but keeps my aux lights on in the e switch. is this normal in the aunduril softwar for this light? Also I noticed I do not have memory mode as the light when clicked once will come back on in step 2 of the stepped ramp configuration default. thanks!
The issue only occurs when a cell is in the light, they can’t power on by themselves without one. I use 30q or VTC6 only for 18650 tubes.
Speaking of tubes, I swapped the inner tube with one from a good light and the issue remained, in one of the two KR4 Ti with this issue. Then I swapped to an 18350 and the issue is no longer present.
In the other defective unit, I swapped just the inner tube and it actually fixed that light.
I honestly don’t know what causes this.
In other news, my 6th D18 arrived today. I haven’t had any issues with this model whatsoever. common browser resolutions
Could you please check the inner edges of the battery tube? The edges in mine are razor-sharp and damaged the shrink wrap of my batteries. I did not have this issue in an earlier D18 I bought several months ago.
^ Sounds like the inner tube edges are not chamfered enough, or more than likely skipped…
If you don’t mind losing a little ano on that edge, its pretty easy to do yourself with a deburring tool
Frostcream, the point of threading without battery is to see if it’s the cut threads are screwed up, or just the added tension screwing you up (:
I just wish there was an upgraded D4s with lighted switch. Precious metals, sure, doesn’t matter. I know now that I have a d4 (brass) with a lighted switch I wouldn’t buy an aluminum version with a regular switch. It pains me that the D4sV2 switch is so nice (functionally) but isn’t lighted. It’s just a nice extra. Emisar does have the nicest side switches of all my lights though.
Hank sent me a message about the K9.3 lockout bug, so I investigated and fixed it. Weirdest bug I’ve seen in Anduril so far. Still not sure what exactly causes it, but it acts like a compiler bug or something. If I simply add some extra no-op instructions in the affected code path, the issue goes away.
It’s weird because it only affects the K9.3, even though the lockout and aux LED code is exactly the same on a bunch of other lights. Also weird because it goes directly from lockout to “off”, and there is no code path which does that any more. So that would suggest it’s rebooting, but it doesn’t do the boot-up blink. Also weird because only lockout is affected; the same configuration works in the regular “off” mode.
A steady color works fine in the low or high modes, and every pattern (including blinking) works fine in disco / rainbow / voltage modes, but a single color blinking fails:
1 Color
Disco
Rainbow
Voltage
Off
pass
pass
pass
pass
Low
pass
pass
pass
pass
High
pass
pass
pass
pass
Blinking
fail
pass
pass
pass
But that “fail” becomes a “pass” if it has a few more bytes of padding, if it takes a few clock cycles longer to run.
I doubt it’s a compiler bug, since those are very rare in practice. I probably did something wrong… but I haven’t been able to figure out what. So I hope to give it a more proper fix if I can confirm what’s causing it. Would be helpful to build it pre-fix on other platforms, to check if the compiler version is relevant. The buggy version was built with gcc-avr 1:5.4.0+Atmel3.6.1-2 from Debian.
Also, code for the K9.3 is now available in the anduril2 branch.