I think it would work nicely. You’d only need to print the center plunger part that’s now metal and the glow should shine pretty well I’d think. I’d certainly like to see the results. It’s something I thought of suggesting to Simon but it would be nice to actually see it first. Wish I had a 3D printer. If you try it please share your results. :+1:
I’m interested in more information on this alternating speed strobe. Can TK enlighten us please?
Whilst I like the 20Hz strobe on the “faster than expected” Biscotti, a variable strobe may produce some interesting results for light painting (the variable strobe in the Klarus XT series is quite popular with light painters).
Any news when we can expect to have the new Rev.2 Biscotti driver’d, anodized switch’d, desert tan’d version available from Simon. I think I heard my laptop keyboard cry as I repeatedly refreshed his web page. :person_facepalming:
I thought biscotti used the regular 10Hz strobe. It has a compile option for a 2-speed “police” strobe though, which simply does 8 pulses at 16.6 Hz and 8 pulses at 8.3 Hz. It’s nothing fancy.
They both use a 33% duty cycle, to save a bit of power.
Well you can say it’s nothing fancy but that’s not what my eyes tell me.
The “nothing fancy” 2 speed strobe is quite visually disturbing which is the only way a strobe can actually be effective. All the other strobes I’ve seen have never impressed me. Yours does, so I say thank you.
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BTW TK, I had to dig back through our PM trail but I found our conversation about this. You had a few bytes left so you were debating adding a couple more mode groups or upgrading the regular strobe to a 2-speed police strobe. You chose to go with the police strobe before you uploaded the file to your repository.
FWIW, I merged all the updates between trunk and the Convoy branch, so they should be in sync now. I forgot to do that a few months ago when I updated biscotti, and forgot I gave it the police strobe instead of regular strobe.
My guess is that their listing is in error but I’ve asked Simon to confirm. The one at BG will have the black steel switch where the ones in Simon’s store should have a black anodized aluminum switch.
The new batch is in and in addition to the improved switch they now have the additional clip groove for the reverse clip mounting position. Simon said the listing should be live in the Convoy store in about 2 days.
The anodizing looks perfect. Truly a beautiful job with it. The extra time and effort Simon put in has really paid off.
That said, I do notice one thing I don’t like. It’s a personal pet peeve of mine. The texture of the anodizing on these lights is very dry and rough. It feels somewhat like holding a giant stick of chalk. Makes me want to rub a gallon of handcream into it to see if that changes the texture. To me it feels much more unpleasant to hold than the more common colored anodizing.
I wonder if this rough texture is unique to brown-colored anodizing. I have one other light with tan anodizing (Sunwayman T25C), and it also has the same unpleasant texture. Meanwhile, none of my lights with black, natural, clear or colored anodizing have this texture.