I am also still hoping for an Anduril light that supports AA (NiMH / Alkaline) as well as 14500 Li-ion batteries.
Lights that only support 14500 batteries like the FWAA would not persuade me to replace an 18650 powered light, even though they are smaller, unless they were also able to use NiMH and Alkaline batteries.
Even though I appreciate my hair-trigger tail switch FW3A lights; for EDC purposes, I prefer lights with a stiffer configurable lighted side switch that do not have inner control tubes.
The entire point of this thread is to achieve - and it has been done successfully - Andúril with alkaline/Nimh support.
The only limitations for anduril are that the microprocessors it currently runs on require a minimum voltage input. How that is achieved doesn’t matter much, and in this case it can be boosted from a AA input voltage.
Feel free to read the thread for more information.
I would never trade the ability to use alkaline and nimh in this light for the andruil interface. It is a huge utilitarian benefit to be able to use three different batteries. The andruil interface won’t do any for you if you need a light and you happen to have this one with a bunch of alkalines.
OP is updated with the big and great news. :-) I try to get more news from Sofirn at the end of next week. Currently, they face a considerable bottleneck of Andúril-compatible MCUs being unavailable. Let’s hope the supply situation will soon get better, so they can make our dreams come true.
If I am not totally mistaken we (i.e. Sofirn + BLF members involved into the development) try to make sure that using Turbo mode in Andúril 2 will work the same way as it does in Andúril 1. Apart from that I see nothing but benefits in using version 2. I agree the flow chart maybe deserves some „simplification“ (?) and the fully detailed manual is something to work on as well. OTOH, the one from TK is quite useful already.
