Or a piston drive , which I assume isn’t much simpler to achieve .
Anduril isn’t limited to FETs (which indeed would burn the E21As E17As) 7135s can be used for constant current, also linear FET or buck/boost.
Mike C’s B17 clicky boost driver would be more suitable, while not Anduril I imagine his UI will be much more advanced and configurable than Convoy’s, it is also much more efficient, with proper moonlight, regulation for the full battery etc… a very nice upgrade for an S2 and compatible with quad E21A/17A since those can be configured as 3, 6 or 12V.
Thanks for the correction and further information thefreeman
I wasn’t considering MikeC’s driver as it is not “comercialized” as other drivers with Anduril, but it is too an option for mechanical “clicky” flashlights!
A piston driver such would also imply some modding too so I guess that it would be no different from the e-switch in terms of work!
One of my favorite lights in my collection that I will never part with got a new shorter tube to try on.
Quite awkward to hold with 18350 but I had to see. Thorfire C8S Switch, Convoy 18350 C8 tube, kiriba-ru heatsink head + his mods and spacer to turn it into ANNA-6 (not pictured), SS bezel ground down by kiriba-ru as well. It legos, not as smooth as the Thorfire tube but it works.
Wouldn’t it be great to get a constant current driver with Anduril and limit it to the current you specify?
With my E17A flashlights, I’m using a Convoy Driver for SST40 ,12groups which maxes out at either 5 or 6 amps depending on the size. I then set it to group 8 which limits the current to 50%, so either 2.5 or 3 amps.
Ideally it would be nice to go up to 4 amps, but with the 4 modes up to 50, I’m very happy with the driver and the flashlights get plenty bright. The 0.1 moonlight mode is very low and the driver accommodates a lighted tail switch without a bleeder resistor, which is also very nice.
If you change the 10mΩ (R010) resistor to 15mΩ on the 6A Convoy driver you’ll get 4A. On a constant current Anduril driver that uses a current sense resistor like lume1 or noctigon for comercially available ones, current can be changed the same way, or like G_damian mentionned by modifiying the ramp.
Recently I bought some 5A/6A Convoy drivers (17mm/20mm simple 4 mode and the 12 groups). They installed single R020 instead of the older ones with R010, I don’t know if another parts might changed too, but it still managed pulling 5-6A at the tail. So you need to make sure before changing the resistor.
I reprogrammed the tail in my v11r. Due to the slow pwm it screwed with the camera and i couldn’t get an accurate video representation. In person it looks like a burning ember (kind of a sped up candle flicker)
I never found an easy and good way to lap a surface inside a cavity, just tedious imperfect ways. But on some occasions when that was no problem I have indeed removed the entire edge of a pill, then it is easy to make a perfect surface.