Preview: Pre-release sample of the new FLEXcandles Asgard!!

Seriously, assguard? I would buy one just because of the name. The ultimate in personal security.
Nice write up Johnny, thanks for the effort. Makes me wish I didn’t just go back to the iPhone.

Patent? In China? That is effective. :slight_smile:
Best would be a patent in US, UK, and Canada. This covers enough market to make it international. Expensive though, but I do hope they consider something. They have one year from public disclosure.

China have patents too:
http://english.sipo.gov.cn/
http://www.epo.org/searching/asian/china/search.html

Wow
Thanks Johnny, another interesting review.
Should I wait for the Beowulf ? Will it be a different body ?

Sorry, didn’t mean to suggest China doesn’t have patents. I was making a reference to how having a patent doesn’t do much to stop rampant copying.
Having patents in your major markets is far more effectibe than the place of manufacture. Also, even with a patent, you need to expend considerable resources in court just to defend it when you need to. Not fun, except for patent lawyers :wink:

Great preview/review…

1. Could you post the size of the flex driver?

2. Like Gords asked. Are you able to find out what will happen if you stack a 7135 or a few on there?

US patents don’t mean much in China where they are not enforced. Chinese patents in China do, I’m sure, mean quite a bit. It will keep all the other Chinese cloners from stealing their idea. In the meantime, I’m sure the owner of Fasttech has applied for patents in the US and elsewhere as well. The man is no fool and, from what I’ve been told, is quite the legend in China. Think of him as a Chinese Donald Trump, Mark Cuban, or Rupert Murdock. I don’t think he is a fool.

The Beowulf will be a different body. It won’t be based of an existing light but will be designed and made exactly to their specifications. I understand it will be an EDC type light. If you want a good, versatile thrower then the Asgard shouldn’t be passed over. If you have zero need for a thrower then pass over the Asgard. It’s up to you but, like Pokemon, I’d wanna catch 'em all.

What are you, 9? LOL! :bigsmile:

Asgard, is the name of the realm where the gods of Norse Mythology live. I think it's a pretty cool name for a light. ;)

I will answer what I can but will leave the others to Jasmine and her team of engineers that developed it.

1) I was told 31.25KHz. The 31.28 is a typo I will correct.

2) It has to have batteries in it and can only be accessed when manually set into BT mode. Not batteries, no electricity to run BT.

3) If you can turn the light on through the app they have not implemented it into the beta version I am using or I haven't found it yet. I believe it is the former.

4) That is one best for Jasmine to answer.

With 8 discreet non PWM levels of 12.5% would suggest that each AMC7135 is controlled individually by the microconttroller. Looking at the pcb picture looks to verify that. Adding extra chips would mess up the non PWM mode brightness levels, because those channels with the extra chips overweight their contribution to the overall brightness of the light.

In PWM mode there doesn’t seem to enough evidence on how they control that. If a single master PWM/FET combo is being used, then it could be no difference in mode brightness levels. If PWM is controlled by each channel, then brightness levels are still being messed up .

it was specified earlier that it has 8 chips that are individually turned on for 8 brightness levels without pwm.
it was also discussed about finding which chip would be the last turned on for mx brightness and adding chips to that one for a turbo.

johnny, any chance you could discover which chip is the last one turned on for max brightness? i wouldnt think they would be randomly accessed, but you never know

Couldn't you just add a chip to every single 7135 and then everything doubles, if you reworked it so it had a XM-L2 U2 direct bonded to a big copper heatsink it would be doable.

i imagine you could stack one on each chip… but im wondering if that would mess with the pwm controlled settings…?

What we have here is a whole new generation of flashlights….I’m both excited to see what wonders we shall soon behold, and thoroughly pissed off because all my lights are going to be obsolete by the time next winter rolls around…. :bigsmile: / |(

To answer your questions:

3. Yes you can turn it on and off remotely, provided that you leave the light on Bluetooth mode indefinitely. If you do this, be aware that there is a ~20mA power cost to run the Bluetooth module. On a pair of 2000mAh batteries, theoretically you can have the light running in this Bluetooth standby mode for ~200 hours.

4. Maximum 32 steps per mode on this model.
4.1 I’m not sure if I get your question, but memory is measured in bytes. Each step requires two bytes (either a command/parameter pair, or a duration/power pair).
4.2 The absolute maximum is 84 single-step modes.

Jasmine

Would it be doable to have 2 Sets of modes saved in the light in the future?
so you can switch between these sets of modes without using your phone/pc…???

that would be nice as well…

I second ChibiM’s suggestion, nice to have two groups of modes available without reprogramming.

My Asgard has been marked as shipped! :slight_smile:

Spectacular!! 8) My new replacement driver hasn’t even shipped out and your whole new light has. LOL!