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! 
Spectacular!! 8) My new replacement driver hasn’t even shipped out and your whole new light has. LOL!
Hopefully we already have the improvements. My asgard is shipped too
They should be the updated production models. They would not have shipped the beta versions that they sent the reviewers.
I take that back. I forgot that the offer was made for those to opt out of the wait for the refined release and get the "as-is" version shipped early if they could not wait. You guys may be getting these. Hope you all realize this.
shipped here too 8)
Fasttech never said anything about getting “as-is” versions.
Is that what the “founders edition” was all about? 
I do not recall seeing a notice when I ordered. In any case, I would expect to receive an updated driver with it or eventually. I would be dissappointed if it was left as a beta driver after paying for it, while the free review samples got updates.
I dont care, I want to play before I fire off a pm to jasmine about drivers, out of interest johnny, whats the diameter of the driver it look to me to be 20mm + but I’m not sure, it also looks like it needs to hide behind a contact board but again I don’t mind, it’d be good to use one in my zy-t08 as the drive behind a copper based mod and to try and figure out the way the chips are addressed.