New Convoy C8 – Clearly better

Could it be so simple as to leave the capitol out of Bistro?

bistro

Implying the smaller or more diminutive form of the advanced version.

Or bistro2

If bistro should be included then “mini-bistro” is good …

I like biscuit / biscotti myself, amazing work on the new firmware.

Exactly J-Dub74………
Hunter, to try and say it nicely; IMO….this was not your most stellar post. Not by a long shot………. :person_facepalming: … :frowning:

+1 …. As far as I am concerned it was an insulting post.

I think possibly sometimes we get hung up to much on the word “budget”. There is much more to the meaning of the word “budget” than ‘cheap’. One word that comes to mind is ’value’. There are many more………… :wink:

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Edit: I just saw this after I posted the above….

:person_facepalming:
Your “one innocent question” was not the problem my friend, it was all the balderdash you included with it.
I really doubt you caused much “discomfort” to anyone except yourself, and that would be because you sent yourself to stand in the corner… :wink:

Just ordered one from Simon today! :star:

He did put himself in the corner with his follow up post, so let’s all drop the negativity and get back to happy fun flashlight business. :+1:

wonder how a white one would look…matte maybe…

Hunter? Is there still a stash of old lights in that corner? Maybe the cells are still charged… Play time! :smiley:

Is there some precise info when will be available pressure switches for C8 ?

Yeah he did and as far as I am concerned this was nothing more than a bump in the road of “happy fun flashlight business”. :wink:

Y’all did an excellent job with all this also IMO. :+1:

I read an extensive article about anodizing aluminum. It explained the honeycomb-like-physical properties of the nano-tubes that form during the process. This is what holds the dye that can give various colors. The article said white dye has an atomic structure too large to fit in the nano-tubes, so as they said you’ll never see a white anodized aluminum.

The article also went on to say that for similar reasons, colors don’t work well with Type III Military Grade Hard Anodize.

And what colour this C8 will give ?

In bistro-mini.c you set PWM level 133 for 50% brightness, but 122 for 35% brightness. Is it error? Maybe you need 102?

Now 35% level is about 46%

Quoting ToyKeeper from post #102

“It’s not a linear scale.
The stated outputs are the power level, which can be misleading. Throw distance follows an inverse square law, while perceived brightness tends to follow something like an inverse cube. So, there’s usually not much point having a mode between 50% and 100% power.

For example, let’s say it puts out 1000 lumens and does 50 kcd lux. Here are the resulting levels in more detail:

0.1% power: 1 lm, throws 14 m, brightness 10/100
1% power: 10 lm, throws 45 m, brightness 21/100
10% power: 100 lm, throws 141 m, brightness 46/100
35% power: 350 lm, throws 264 m, brightness 70/100
100% power: 1000 lm, throws 447 m, brightness 100/100
So, to a human eye, the 35% level actually looks like it’s 70% as bright as the 100% level, and it throws 59% as far. Does the mode spacing make more sense now?”

Setting the linear numbers in the firmware is not the same as the non-linear output. Which of course causes confusion until you come to grips with the fact that you’re dealing with 2 separate things. :wink:

Have you got a link to that article Dale, I would love to read it.

I read that probably 2 years ago or more, when I was playing around with anodizing some aluminum (a heat sink I made for a Solarforce M3 with MT-G2)

In 217 version was 107 for 40% and 127 for 50%.
On 218 version: 122 for 35% and 133 for 50%.

In think this is mistype.

On 6*7135 now 35% level - 0.93A current and 50% level - 1.02A current.

Thanks Dale, I’ll do a search and try to find some good ones. :wink:

In this currents the scale is very close to linear…