FLEX Asgard @ Fasttech

Funny, not an hour after I posted my observations- I got a response from her.

If the light gets sent back. I definitely do not want another. I am going to try and make it work one last time on my home computer- if it doesn’t cooperate then it’s on a plane to Miami.

Well, I've received my replacement driver (full preassembled pill this time) and it works like a charm! If they offer to send you an entire replacement pill I encourage you to go that route. I can't imagine you wouldn't be happy with the light once it gets sorted out. I also can't imagine anyone as angry and frustrated as I was with mine before they got the driver sorted out for me. I like the light now and am really looking forward to the new Beowulf model with the better quality host.

That.

If the Beowulf is smaller and perhaps a little more stable, I’m very interested. The size of the Asgard was its main drawback, as far as I’m concerned, though I really wouldn’t mind having something more deeply programmable too. Ease of use is a good thing, but I’d rather have a fully Turing-complete language at my disposal… in a form small enough to EDC.

Yeah, I have a feeling that she doesn’t want to send out bare drivers anymore. :_(

Ok, just an update. I went home and tried using the update on my lenovo again. Still a no go. The laptop has built in bluetooth- but it still gave me an incorrect temp and voltage. Then I tried using my cheapo bluetooth receiver that I used with a computer at work, which was successful. It will not properly communicate with my lenovo at all using either internal or external bluetooth. After hearing a few of you guys suggest I get a new driver- I might do that. Well they’re offering to swap out the light altogether which is even better. Maybe I’ll do that since I scratched up the reflector a bit trying to get it to work. I mean there’s always a possibilty it’s the laptop- so I still may end up frustrated.

Wow, I’m a complete idiot.

I was PM’ing the user “jasmine” instead of “fasttech.”

Now you can feel better about yourselves. 8)

Have you been able to order a driver only?

Sent (the real) Jasmine a PM 24 hours ago, but haven’t gotten a reply yet.

I’ll give it a few more days.

Anyone ever do a lumen output rating on this light? I'd be curious to know what moonlight outputs.

Moonlight was around or less than one lumen. I forget what I got for the High (Max) output, but it was not close to the 1000 lumen claim, more like 850 or so, IIRC.

Thanks! By the way, was that with the cool white?

Yup, CW emitter. Plan is to switch to NW emitter soon.

Cool, thanks. I got the NW and it looks nice. Glad I didn't go with CW. That said, the large reflector adds a bit of cooler tint to the beam, as it radiates out from the nuetral white center.

I find the CW version to be good, no purple and just a little cool blue. Compared to 1A tints in other lights, this 1C works very well in this light. Just looking at it now, I’m surprised at how neutral it really is.

Does anybody use Asgard any longer or what happened to the brand? Our of business?

There was supposed to be a smaller, more EDC-style one made eventually… did that ever happen? The main reason I didn’t get an Asgard was that it was simply too big.

I’m still using mine and I really like it, but it doesn’t look like they are developing any new models; in-fact they haven’t even taken the app out of beta still, seems to be dead on support now :frowning:

Epic fail

from a business perspective. Where's the product support? Just my opinion but they have lost my confidence.

Too much easy money in the e-cig crap, I think they found that a much easier market than us flashlight loons.

I use mine from time to time, but there are quite a few things that need to be improved. But unfortunately that probably won’t happen.