It’s like when everyday drivers buy supercars but can’t / don’t / won’t learn how to properly use them…
It is in the enthusiasts’ best interest that more basic users use Anduril flashlights so we can have wider choice. Anduril lights can be kept within safe operation limits and basic use is really simple. For this reason I wouldn’t compare it to supercars which indeed require special skills.
Supercars require practice and training to unlock their full potential, same as what develops any skill for the average person. It takes either a highly experienced, or unique individual to pick something up cold start, read or do it once, and fully understand everything behind the object/product.
I do agree that it might be in the best interest to convert the average/basic consumer into an enthusiast, otherwise you just get dinosaurs who like single mode lights exclusively regardless of usage scenario.
The most hightech supercar is the Rimac Nevera. In that car you can select driving profiles. You can select and never turn away from normal street car setting so an average driver can drive it. It also has advanced modes like drifting. A normal driver should never ever switch to that mode.
Anduril could be something like that. Actually it is something like that, this is why Simple mode exists. On a Nevera they could just ignore advanced modes and never pretend being a race pilot. This is how I would like the non-enthusiast world see the Anduril flashlights. Easy to use. There’s a hidden beast inside you never need to see if you don’t want to. Anduril 2 can do this, only the public needs to be taught for it.
As you’ve said, that supercar is anduril 2 incarnate. Perhaps you’ve missed my other posts saying that ALL massed produced Anduril 2 lights should default simple mode with safe limits set, i.e. NO turbo, ceiling at maybe around 120.
This analogy is still not a good one, as the street mode is still for the enthusiast to drive it on the street. It allows the enthusiast to have flexibility, not the other way around. That’s what scatpacks are for.
Good call. Also, in addition, the way the TikZ diagram is set up makes it possible to very easily define whether a function is (Extended) Simple UI, or Advanced UI only. This is demonstrated in an exemplary model-specific diagram for model number 0135, hank-emisar-2ch (source), which also includes the model-specific default settings. In case of interest, such model-specific diagrams could readily be forked from the vanilla generic diagram (source) over at GitHub.
Let car analogies alone, I completely agree with you regarding default Simple mode and safe limits for Anduril lights meant for wider audience. And yes, I missed a lot of posts, my apologies for talking about matters already discussed before. I was in deep health crisis, barely even survived. Had a skull surgery and more not so pleasant things. Even my memory fell out for some time, I’m still trying to catch up. This is why I missed a good half year from this awesome chat I followed before. I’m lucky though, after two decades I got a proper diagnosis and getting effective therapy.
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Good to hear about your diagram and manual expertise! And I surely wish you a complete recovery. I consider documentation (be it a manual or a diagram) to be an important part of a project, which is why I have been focusing on the documentation for Anduril. Regarding the text manual, so far, I have contributed a couple of details to ToyKeeper’s excellent Anduril User Manual; see the pull requests I have created over at GitHub, which might serve as a starting point, if you are interested.
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Again, very good call! I am still afraid that the user complaint “LIGHT NOT BRIGHT” might be a challenge to overcome here. But getting back to a “vanilla” ceiling of around 120 for Simple UI that you suggested: 110 might also be a suitable choice here. For example, in the Anduril source code for hank/lume-x1, 110 is set as the default for Simple UI, even with the comment about ~12W.
Actually, I have been setting 110 as the ceiling on a couple of Hanks recently, because my testing of the sustainable ceiling for a DA1K with NTG50 4200K (outdoors, cool ambient temperature of about 5-10°C, default thermal settings) resulted in 110. And just recently, I noticed over at Reddit that someone else arrived at a sustainable ceiling of 105 in a different configuration. To me, all of this suggests that 110 could be a suitable general setting for this.
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For those interested, here is an insight into the diagram’s background colors. In case someone would like to have a white diagram canvas, a sort of blank slate to start from, possibly with different color schemes, once again, all it takes is to change two values in the TEX source file:
First, yellow!30 to anybutton-fill (which is white), and second, gray!10 to advancedbutton-fill (which is anybutton-fill, which is white). You could also just keep setting white, but this way, white is only set once, and is referred to subsequently.
This will take the diagram from the current layout:
to this white layout:
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It’d be cool to have a live interactive map simulator of what happens when you use the inputs, for practice. I believe someone was building one, but I don’t remember who…
You’d have a virtual workbench with a virtual circuit of an Anduril 2 powered light, load the version into, and interact by clicking the button on screen (or wired in light, but dunnow how that would work)
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Wow, sounds great. I have not come across that yet. Maybe someone else knows what this is about.
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