While out walking I was forced to perform a tail cap reset. As I’d miss clicked and got the light in an unusable mode that I couldn’t figure out how to get out of. No instructions with me and in the middle of a very dark field.
So having done the reset. On returning home I’ve found that when I do a Battery check. It now only reads the voltage once and then does nothing else.
Previously it would read it out then a bit of a pause and read it out again. I’ve had another Anduril 2 light turn up today. And that currently works as expected by repeating the voltage until I interact with the light again.
I can’t see anything in the Anduril 2 instructions that says you can change this behaviour.
FWIW, I really appreciate Anduril and am very happy to have it on several lights! I think it is an amazing piece of work that is very useful and gives the lights great function and simplicity of use. That said, I have experienced this very same issue and have watched the rapid throttling and had to deal with both issues.
The miss clicking thing has happened to me once or perhaps twice in several years. I may have also messed up configuring things the way I want them once or twice. How wonderful to be able to do a reset and have a fresh start!
The manual is actually quite good. Notice I did not say simple or easy. There is even a youtube out there demonstrating how to use the configuration menus. In daily use, once configured the way I want it, Anduril works great and easy — hard to ask for more. Yes it can be a bit difficult to learn the config setup and execute it for the way you want the light to work. Its truly not all that difficult and once done it works very well for so long that you may need to re-learn it when you have to deal with it again. All in all I just want to say thank you to TK and those who have contributed. Great piece of work!
All you need to do is change over to Advanced UI and set the thermal sensor correctly, then switch back to Simple UI and leave it there, all of your problems will be solved.
Am I missing something here? I don’t see any mention of the brand/model of the flashlight. I’m just wondering if there could be a switch issue causing extra clicks…
But yeah, if you’re lazy clicking around you can end up jumping from one Anduril UI group to another. I would either make a point of memorizing some of the basic menu items (including reset and UI group change), or printing out an adhesive label and applying it to the battery, so you can have that as a fallback.
I like Anduril 2 because of all the options that are available to play with.
That said though, I am a relatively simple guy, but I also have some quirks. How simple?
My EDC light is a first-run FW3A; April 2019 is the invoice date. It still runs an early (June 2019) version of the original Anduril. That version incorporates the 1H, lo-hi, behavior when e-locked and set to ramping mode. I love that lo-hi from lock. However, the emitters are now LH351D, 5000K 90 CRI. I will admit that for me, Anduril 2 needs to be used frequently enough to remember the programming variables. But that is what user manuals are for I guess.
I have an early run FW3A too, with tail cap that doesn’t have a security ring (hence, you have to change the battery from the front). Anduril v1. But I don’t have the lo-hi output in e-lockout. I also have Anduril 2, but for the most part my UI paths hit the same menu design in Anduril v1 and v2, so I very rarely get tripped up. I use stepped ramping set to 10 levels and it works so well for my needs that I never change it. I rarely flip over to smooth ramping, but 3-clicks while on is easy to remember. Temp limits & calibration was done and I never need to think about it.
I keep meaning to make a custom cheat sheet for Anduril to remember the easy-to-forget menu options, in case I don’t have access to the manual (I do keep a hotlink to the manual page on BLF).
FWIW, I keep digital copies of the user manuals for everything I own on my NAS which I can reach from anywhere I have an internet connection of some kind. Not just Anduril and flashlights, but the dishwasher, the garage door opener, the router, the furnace, and the wood stove, etc. That has been very handy many times.
Smart idea, Don. I do have a lot of electronic (PDF) copies of manuals for things like Anduril and various devices, but I haven’t set up a drop box folder to store them. How did you set up your NAS, if you don’t mind sharing?
I have a Synology DS418 operating with RAID6. That is plugged into an ASUS Ai-mesh router pair.
Our son has an identical hardware setup in a totally different location. The two NAS sync with each other to maintain offsite copies of each other. Originally I did that because I wanted to have redundant copies of the business records and I have kept that going. I also make Macrium disk images which are stored on OneDrive
Interesting, so you have that Synology DS418 acting as a kind of host off your own home Internet service? Did it involve defining a firewall pass-through for the ASUS Ai-mesh router?
