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I did go in and set the pwm higher and I still had the same problem. Toykeeper suggested that in a PM.

Whats a good single pwm firmware?

I still can’t get over the idea that I’m just missing something really simple.

What pilotdog68 said.

Also, one project you might find works well on a nanjg driver is STAR-noinit. It gives off-time memory without needing an off-time capacitor. Just make sure it has DUAL_PWM_START commented out.

For a sanity check, you might also want to try flashing NLITE.

Thanks. I have the NLITE someplace and I’ll try the STAR-noinit.

Off to work I go, again! :wink:

Ran the Nlite as it was in my hex file and now I’m getting one with nothing and then medium and high. So still no low.

That’s pretty strange. If NLITE doesn’t work, I suspect a hardware issue.

BTW, should I wait for you to get this into a code repository, or should I go ahead and add it from the zip file?

IIRC, you’re familiar with git… and that would totally work. It’s easy to import from git, and eases the process of merging updates later. I already do that for JonnyC’s code (though he hasn’t updated in quite a while).

I think I still have some of your older code waiting in a half-merged state too. Oops. IIRC, there were a whole bunch of formatting changes and relatively few functional changes, and I was trying to untangle those into two separate commits for clarity… but perhaps I should go ahead and dump them all in at once instead. It’s just hard to diff the original and modified versions when virtually every line has changed in ways which don’t affect the actual code function.

TK, I forgot to thank you for a great laugh I had, when I saw the video you posted of that funny dude, didn’t know that one.

@18sixfifty
About the moon mode issue:

I think NLite and Starnoinit, need a star to be soldered to enable moon mode. Of course you could adjust it so that it’d be the other way around (moon enabled by default without the star soldered)…

Thanks I might actually switch it so the star isn’t soldered because soldering it doesn’t seem to work.

Fresh driver and same problems. I am getting three out of four modes now, so I’m closer. But still no moon. I’m using star 1.1

I’m having problems trying to figure out where to change the pwm settings. That has to be it.

I got it working and I think it was just a combination of me having a case of the dumbspits and possibly bad mcu’s. I ended up using an older driver that I hadn’t used from way back and that along with phase-correct PWM did the trick. I ended up getting the moonlight mode stable at about half of what it was on the original star 1.1 version.

Does anyone have software that will wipe these mcu’s really clean? Maybe I got a batch that was used previously? Can that happen? They came from China instead of Richard, teach me to cheap out.

TK, how do you use the ramp_calc.py?
I’t trying to get some new values as I need it to start at 3 and I’d like 64 steps but I don’t know how to use this file.

I’d suggest using bin/level_calc.py instead… because Ferrero_Rocher/ramp_calc.py is old and less accurate and harder to use, and the only extra thing it offers is pulse frequency modulation to make the low end of the ramp look smoother.

If you aren’t using a single-channel driver with both PWM and PFM, use bin/level_calc.py instead.

For example, a FET+7135 driver with a single XP-L:

(~/src/torches/trunk/)-]> ./bin/level_calc.py
How many total levels do you want? (4) 64
Lowest visible PWM level, for moon mode: (6) 1
How bright is moon mode, in lumens? (0.25) 8
How bright is the highest level, in lumens? (1000) 1500
Use dual PWM? [y/n] (n) y
Second channel, lowest visible PWM level: (6) 3
Second channel, how bright is the lowest mode, in lumens? (0.25) 0.25
Second channel, how bright is maximum, in lumens? (140) 140
1: visually 0.63 (0.25 lm): 0.00/255, 3.00/255
2: visually 0.80 (0.52 lm): 0.00/255, 3.48/255
3: visually 0.97 (0.92 lm): 0.00/255, 4.21/255
...
62: visually 11.10 (1369.01 lm): 208.87/255, 255.00/255
63: visually 11.28 (1433.51 lm): 219.85/255, 255.00/255
64: visually 11.45 (1500.00 lm): 255.00/255, 0.00/255
PWM1/FET  values: 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,3,6,9,12,15,18,22,26,30,34,38,43,48,53,58,63,69,75,81,88,95,102,109,117,124,133,141,150,159,168,178,188,198,209,220,255
PWM2/7135 values: 3,3,4,5,7,8,11,14,17,21,26,31,38,45,53,62,72,83,95,109,124,140,157,176,196,218,241,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,0

OK how does it work?
I’m only using single channel with 3x 7135

Oh, that should be pretty straightforward then. :slight_smile:

Basically just tell it you want 64 levels, minimum PWM of 3, lowest mode of 0.5 lumens, highest mode of 400 lumens, and no dual PWM. It looks like 64 levels will get you a few duplicates at the beginning though. That’s what pulse frequency modulation helps with, but it’s also more than a little finicky and might not be worth the effort.

Are you putting this into an e-switch light with Ferrero_Rocher, or something else?

Yeh it’s an e-switch light using Ferrero_Rocher Ramping UI. Maybe 64 levels might be too much, might just stick with 40. When I try run this I just get syntax errors.

As in ToyKeeper’s example, you just run level_calc.py and it will ask you questions. Copy and paste the errors are you are getting.

I don’t know how to run it tho.

EDIT: Figured it out thanks!

You’re on windows? You need to have python installed and the level_calc.py script is then run from a command line prompt.

A little windows how-to would be helpful I’m sure. Anyone up for it? I don’t even have a windows pc at the moment. :stuck_out_tongue:

Sure I’ll make a how to next week now that I’ve figured it out.

Can anyone help me with this. I have a FET + 7135 driver, i just removed the FET because i want to use one 7135 only. I am using the blf a6 firmware. I thought that i will get a very stable moon mode using only one 7135 but i was wrong. At 4.2v i get around 1 lumen(just my estimate) on moon mode. But at 3.7v i get a very dim moon mode. At 3.6v the moon don’t light up.
Here is my code

// PWM levels for the big circuit (FET or Nx7135)
#define MODESNx1 0,0,0,0
// PWM levels for the small circuit (1x7135)
#define MODES1x1 3,12,42,255
#define MODES_PWM1 FAST,PHASE,PHASE,PHASE

At 3.6v on high mode i can still get 350mA so i don’t know why moon mode doesn’t light up at the same voltage 3.6v.