no but you can disable Bright POVD by setting option 4 to Zero, or set it to 50 and then bright POVD will only come on at Level 4 of 7 or higher.
and you can set Dim POVD not to come on at all, if the light was used below a given brightness. For example setting Option 3 to 20 will mean POVD will stay off if the light was used at step 1 or 2 of 7, and Dim POVD will be used at step 3 of 7.
I simply disabled all the POVD, lolâŚmuch cleaner that way. Since 3c will give me a readout anyway, I opt for that instead.
me too, because Bright Standby Aux disables Option 3 and 4.. but I liked when I had incremental control of which outputs enable dim or bright POVD..
Well, âyoungâ white dwarf is almost an oxymoron but yeah white dwarf âstarsâ are crazy objects. O type stars get down to 100nm peak wavelengths too.
No. Thatâs a hardware limitation. It only has off, low, and high. The brightness is determined by whether it has power, and whether it has the MCUâs internal resistor enabled to reduce that power.
| resistor | no resistor | |
|---|---|---|
| power off | off | off |
| power on | low | high |
With different hardware, there are ways to control the brightness of the aux LEDs with more/finer brightness steps. However, it comes with a huge cost: It uses significantly more power, even in âlowâ mode⌠and this hurts the core function of the aux LEDs â to be like a tritium vial but better. To gently glow just bright enough to locate the light, without significantly reducing battery life per charge.
Finer control over the brightness would be neat sometimes, but the impact on standby time is IMO too big of a cost. The âoffâ mode wouldnât really count as an âoffâ mode any more, since it would eat the battery several times faster.
It was a bug that people were complaining about, so I fixed it. This was back in 2023. People with high aux didnât like the fact that POVD wouldnât work right when they had been using a low mode. It would display too dim, then jump up to a high brightness afterward, which made it hard to read the color and people didnât like it.
Since then, youâre the first person Iâve heard about who wanted the pre-bugfix behavior.
It took about 3 months for people to complain when it allowed low POVD with high aux⌠and about 3 years for anyone to complain about the bugfix. So Iâd be pretty reluctant to un-fix it.
However, you can modify it if you like. Just remove the line with if (pattern != 2), since that is the part which explicitly keeps POVD high if the user has high aux.
About using high red aux for long periods of time, I did some measurements. On a D3AA with li-ion, I found the following:
With an average 900 mAh 14500 cell, high red aux would drain the battery in about 3 days. You could get more runtime by just leaving the main LEDs on, at any level under ~25/150, and much finer control over the brightness, and a smooth focused beam instead of a splotchy aux beam. Works great as a nightlight, when ceiling bounced, to see what youâre doing without being bright enough to impair sleep or night vision.
Iâm not quite sure why youâre getting the 3 flashes after battery change at the head. I have three KR1AAs (two v1 and one v2). I change batteries in all three lights at the head and have never experienced the 3 flashes.
I think the KR1AA might be like the TS10 in that main current flows through the inner tube, not the outer body. This is the opposite of how the FWAA and FW3A work.
If you donât tighten the KR1AA really hard after battery change, perhaps you might get a weak connection between the inner tube and the contact ring on the driver. Maybe this weak high-resistance connection might cause the 3 flashes?
I recommend trying the following:
With the head off, tighten the tailcap as hard as you can. Then never remove the tailcap again unless there is a malfunction.
Change the battery only at the head. When you screw the head back on after inserting the battery, make sure to screw it on tightly.
Note that this only works for unglued v2 models. If your v2 is stock and has a glued head, you might be out of luck.
moving this to Reddit Anduril forum in order not to clutter Hanks KR1AA sales thread
Does anyone know when this will be available to purchase.
When Hankâs re-stocked his parts. Given that most of Chinaâs on holiday for the next two weeks, probably some time after that.
fwiw, there is one in the classifieds
just one day later, aaand my Hank KR1AA is already picked up and on the move!
Im more than a little Excited! 
While my order from 14.01 is still not sent 
Hank emailed me last evening and said the KR1AA wonât be back for 1-2 more months.
Source: u/pkapeckopckldpepprz on reddit.
Then another guy says this:
âGot reply. If order is placed by today, it will be shipped before the holiday.â
from one day agoâŚ
this is very encouraging, however, the intl.outdoor KR1AA order page is not yet taking orders
The Noctigon KR1AA page is also not yet taking orders.. although it says availability will be in 2-3 days:
with the fwaa back in production, i wish kr3aa existed! at least for the time being iâll have a make believe kr3aa 
fwiw, I wrote to Hank to ask when the KR1AA would be available again. His reply is:
âShould be in 1 or 2 months time.â
so, those who got in already, congrats!
smoke em if you got em
and those who ordered already, and have shipping notice, congrats!
for those who ordered and do not have shipping notice yet
Im hopeful that existing orders will be filled, as I recently got shipping notice for an order from Jan 20
but no new orders will be taken until the website is active again
1 or 2 months? I wonder if he is tweaking the design again.
I sure hope so.
I emailed Hank with some suggestions on upgrading the clip. He was very receptive. Hopefully a better and upgraded version will be available at some point soon.
