ramping beacon flash

Flashlight Modding and DIY Parts
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has anyone programmed a driver to enter a beacon mode where the flash frequency ramps up like they have for intensity?

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  1. Anduril beacon has adjustable delay between flashes… The fastest is 1 flash per second, it can be made to delay for more seconds, for example it can flash once every 10 seconds.

  2. Anduril Party Strobe has adjustable speed.

here is the Anduril Manual, if you want to read up on all the different features

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If I understand you correctly - you what that press and hold the switch while in strobe mode will increase the frequency gradually ant it will set the frequency when releasing the switch?

I haven’t done it for strobe frequency but for intensity and it is almost the same.

Take into consideration that it will take longer to notice that the frequency had changed so the rate of increasing frequency must be slower than the rate of increasing intensity

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Thanks for your input. That is a novel thought as well. A programmable light to set flash frequency and intensity. That would probably require an atmel 25 or higher correct? or could you fit as much code into a 13?

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It depends on what you want to achieve I have 2 channel ramp up and pre set modes on 13 so it is possible…

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Does anyone have a code example they would like to share for the ramping flash? Or would it be as simple as copying the code for intensity and substituting the beacon routine in its place? Seems like there would be delay issues with ramping on a slow beacon pulse.

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You can have a look on my code
https://github.com/YuvalSob/CavingHeadlampsFW/tree/3a834806a49f7f74f68ed8e25ffb0476e70bf188/ClickPress
It is not perfect but working…