Fireflies NOV-MU 21*Nichia E21A mule 1x21700 Flashlight --in stock

Toykeeper claimed it’s what the manufacturers wanted (obviously not Noctigon and Astrolux who have shunned Toykeeper’s horrible vision of Anduril)

I’m testing the 4500K NOV-MU and believe it or not the throw is exceptional. It punches out there by brute force. It measures no where near the claimed 5200 lumens.

The light and box are labelled Fireflies the user manual only mentions Fireflylite. I was told they couldn’t use Fireflies anymore.

That’s strange, are you testing it with the 22430, or with a decent 21700? On the FireFlies 22430 battery, I’m getting around 3500 lm at turn on. With a Vapcell T50, that jumps up to ~5900 lm at turn on (with a maukka-calibrated lumen tube) and then started stepping down after 20 seconds or so due to heat. Hopefully I’ll have the full review (over at 1lumen.com) done in the next week or so.

What did you measure? With a 40T, I measured 5,155 lumens at 2sec from startup using my TA lumen tube calibrated with maukka lights. 95% of the time my measurements are below manufacturer specs and also lumen tubes measure flood lights lower so getting 5,155 lumens in a 5,200 lumens rated lights is amazing. My Noctigon KR4 mule w/ 16x 4500k E21A measured 3,578 with gray bezel and 3,879 with stainless steel bezel.

You can configure the ramp to have Turbo at the ceiling and it will behave like Anduril I basically. 7 clicks while on, hold the 7th until the second blink, release, click once while it’s buzzing, wait, done.

I’m sure TK did the changes for a reason and you should curb your negativity towards her. Anduril and Anduril II only exist because of her and Tom. Can you write a better firmware?

Seriously, who are you?

I’m not a brown nose like thee.

I can envisage a better UI that’s for sure and I’m not malleable.

It’s not that simple because then it enters turbo at the end of the ramp and there is no shortcut for the max regulated output anymore.

I also don’t like this change, the rest is good IMO.

Rule #1

@chouster agreed! thanks for speaking up

I’ll say, I think Anduril2 is great… when configured correctly. Sure, I prefer some customizations (such as double click for turbo which is a simple config setting). And that’s the beauty of open source. Don’t like it? Change it. And thankfully loneoceans put programming pads on these new drivers so it’s pretty easy. I think the Simple UI goes a long way to making Anduril(2) more useable for non-enthusiasts.

Tbh I have 5 Biscotti flashlights that keep resetting to the miserable default UI, I kinda prefer a bad ass light out of the box, all I changed on Anduril 1 was the thermal calibration which was usually very close anyway.

Yes. As someone that enjoys a full-featured UI, I believe you. However, there are lots of people out there that won’t buy an Anduril light because it’s too complex. That’s why Anduril2 with the default Simple UI exists. And users like us are why there’s an Advanced UI in Anduril2.

Very well but even the Adanced UI for us is being butchered. Extra taps for calibration and difficulty in releasing at chosen calibration, i.e 3 blinks to Calibrate number of steps, my NOV-MU only blinks twice! And only being able to access Turbo after ramping to max, get out of here!!! Ok there is a momentary turbo but who the hell is in the middle of a dark forest with a flashlight turned off. Even in a tent hearing a strange noise outside you’ll want to start on a lower level first so you don’t blind yourself or others.

Simple UI is still too powerful for muggles so you have to learn how to program a lower level which kinda doesn’t make it a simple level.
Tbh an Andúril flashlight was about ramping and power, now it starts in stepped mode by default and Turbo is all but defunct.

If TK makes it impossible to turn the light off from Turbo, which some of TK’s creepy brown noses back up, this once legendary UI will be finished.

I don’t have any of the issues with Anduril 2 that you’re always going on about. I had zero difficulty programming any of my Anduril lights, which have all been upgraded to Anduril 2. The changes to turbo are a preference. You may not like it but many others do, including the person who wrote the software. It has nothing to do with brown nosing. You are just taking your frustration about tiny issues out on others for seemingly no reason.

It’s open source software. If you don’t like it, change it. Complaining about it day in and day out doesn’t do anybody any good.

Is there any source for the config files of the new FF models (NOV-MU, E12R, T9R, T1R)? Maybe I overlooked something but I failed to find them here:

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~toykeeper/flashlight-firmware/anduril2/files/head:/ToyKeeper/spaghetti-monster/anduril

I saw that the firmware is on the github, maybe it will be merge later? GitHub - loneoceans/lume1-fireflies: Anduril Firmware for the Lume1-Fireflies Flashlight Driver

UI question for Anduril 2 pro’s,

From lockout mode, manual says that 1H gives you Moon, and 2H gives you Low.
Both 1H and 2H give me the exact same output. Is 2H programmable? How?

Thanks

2H in lockout will be the higher floor of the two ramp modes. So if you use smooth ramp mode and want a higher 2H momentary in lockout, set the stepped ramp floor level higher. Alternatively, 2H from lockout will use the manual memory level if it is set.

Rayoui beat me to it! I was going to say that the text-based manual describes that as such:

Lockout mode also doubles as a momentary moon mode, so the user can do 
quick tasks without having to unlock the light.  The brightness in 
lockout mode has two levels:

  - 1H: Light up at the lowest floor level.

  - 2H: Light up at the highest floor level.
        (or the manual mem level, if there is one)

Gosh...I was way too late. :-D

You can set different floor levels both for stepped and smooth ramping, i.e. you can program a higher floor level for either one of these mode groups. 2H from Lockout mode will use the higher floor level whereas 1H always uses the lowest possible floor level.

Thanks guys. I will give this a try. I have it currently set on hybrid memory and still getting the same output. Will try manual memory and see if it works.

I measured way over 5200 lumens for the 4500K but 40T got me more power than a 30T, are the LED’s gonna turn blue soon!