Hi folks, I would like to tap into your valued Anduril expertise.
In this diagram by myself, I would like to add where there is currently no thermal regulation. As far as I can tell, this has never been comprehensively documented anywhere, although it feels like this subject has been coming up regularly for years. A while ago, I opened an issue over at TK’s GitHub to include this in the manual:
As there are many open issues and pull requests over at TK’s GitHub, it might take another while until this will possibly be addressed for the manual. So here is an unreleased draft diagram version for you to have a look at. I have done some “quick and dirty” testing (“Can I still hold the light?”) with a D4K 3CH, version check 0151-2024-04-20, with a 519A LED mix and a full Molicel P45B, and this is what I have come up with:
Recently, a question about thermal regulation in Momentary Mode and in Tactical Mode was brought up by @stephenk here, and testing about this was done by @jon_slider. This led to the conclusion that there is no thermal regulation in both of these modes.
Furthermore, it is known that there is no thermal regulation in the “Blinkies”, which I take refers to the strobe group as well as the blinky group. In the blinky group, I checked with Beacon, and after a longer period of time the light had gone well over the thermal limit there as well (over 50°C instead of the 31°C I set as thermal limit), so I figure that also the blinky / utilily modes have no thermal regulation, in addition to the strobe / mood modes.
Moreover, no thermal regulation for Momentary Moon and Momentary Low from Lockout may be somehwat theoretical, but it depends on how the floors are set. When I set them to 120 and 130, I quickly got temperatures above 60°C, which means that indeed there is also no thermal regulation for these features. In general, apparently there is no thermal regulation for any kind of momentary mode / feature.
Finally, I thought it was notable that there seems to be no thermal regulation for 2H from Off not only for Advanced UI (Turbo), but also for Simple UI (Ceiling). This post is about documenting the current status, but still, apart from no thermal regulation for the strobe / mood modes in Simple UI via Extended Simple UI up to the latest Anduril 2 release 2024-04-20, (access to the strobe / mood modes from Extended Simple UI has been removed in the meantime), this is another instance where the light could get very hot very quickly out of the box in Simple UI.
Thank you for staying with me this far. So my two questions to you are:
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Does it make sense to include “No thermal regulation” in the diagram?
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If yes to 1., is everything correct and complete in the draft diagram above?