Perhaps not a short but an ESD (Electro-Static Discharge), specially if you live in a region with low-humidity weather.
Until a few years ago, I lived in a high-humidity-weather region and haven’t ever had any issues with ESD damaging anything. But since I moved to a low-humidity area, I started losing MCUs right and left (5 in a single year). It was then (about an year ago) that I installed an anti-static work pad and started using it, complete with good grounding and anti-static bracelet, and haven’t lost a single one yet.
I also use it whenever I take my flashing kit out of its anti-static bag and OFC when flashing my flashlights.
I’ve just started feeling an absolute hunger for your adapters, specially since learning any adapter can and eventually will break (just like any piece of electronics, I guess) and as I have only one, I’m in violation of the “he who has two” rule.
Will send you a DM. Thanks for the clarifications!
Thanks for doing additional optimizations for the FC13 and TS11 firmware (which previously shared the same firmware model “0715” as the TS25 and TS30S Pro).
I would like to ask which firmware would be more recommended for the TS30S Pro (I understand, you may not have a TS30S Pro), but the TS30S Pro is a bigger light that uses a single SBT90.2 LED. It is very similar to the FC13 in that it has a side button switch is RGB aux-LED.
I have tried flashing the TS25 firmware on the TS30S Pro and it works, but the side button LED has some different behavior compared to the FC13.
For instance, on the FC13, the RGB button LED color appears to track the battery voltage, so that at higher brightness, the button LED color will indicate a lower voltage (voltage sag since the LED uses more power.
If I use the TS25 firmware (which has RGB aux-LEDs on the head instead of the side button) on the Wurkkos TS30S Pro, the side button LED seems to be OFF while the main SBT90.2 LED is turned ON. (TS25 has model 0715 and the TS30S Pro also had model 0715, so this was the firmware I tested flashing the TS30S Pro)
By the way, I’m currently using the latest pre-compiiled firmware hex files on your repository dated 2023-10-01 (matches rev 769 in the “launchpad” website).
Interesting! No specific tuning needed for the TS30S Pro? From what I hear, its sbt90-2 led is a very different beast when compared to the SFT40 in the FC13. Did Wurkkos somehow made them “equivalent” when viewed from the Anduril angle (eg, different resistors, etc)?
Beyond thermals, I think different lights benefit from tuning at least for ramping, otherwise Anduril’s ramping ‘infrastructure’ would be much simpler (no need for level_calc.py, ditto PWM1_LEVELS/PWM2_LEVELS/PWM_TOPS specific for each light, etc).
HI guys, I require a bit of help. I would like to update the firmware on some of my TS10. I have the flashing adaptor from @thefreeman. I have a Macbook Pro, running on Ventura 13.3.1 (a), which has avrdude on it, and I have been succesfully using this setup to update some Hanklights with Hanks flashing adaptor. Works fine also with SOIC8 Clips, have used those for a D18, a FW3C, and a FW4A. However, I am not successful in using this setup for my TS10s. Can I use avrdude for that at all, or do I need a different setup? I am not educated with these things, I am the “learning by doing” kind of guy - so I require some suggestions, “howto” instructions, or similar. Anybody here who could help me? Thanks in advance!
HI, many thanks for your input. I had read that, and tried a few times, but it seems I did not get the right input kind of instructions, sequences, on the keyboard, what ever. OK, I will try again. Has anybody done this maybe, and knows what exactly to tell the Mac?
By the way, discussing this subject - one question. The latest relevant Andúril revision (including TS10) seems to be rev767. There are hex files offered by ToKeeper, and also by Wolfgirl42, thanks to both of them. For both TS10, and TS10V2. The latter also include the 8C mod from @dmenezes . Would the newer things such as Post-off-Voltage-Display and Soft Start also work on older TS10s? I tend to think so. Any experiences here?
To explain the reason for this question: I just learned by chance that my new TS10-V2-TI can do a lot more things than the Wurkkos manual tells. I am using @containerfan ‘s latest diagram now, „try and error“, to find out what it does do and what not - just experimenting with this.
This is also my impression. There has been a few releases since then (the latest being 774) but I’m not sure how stable any of them is, and for my own lights I’m sticking with rev.767 for now.
Not only the TS10 and TS10V2 – actually, I put up a ZIP for rev.767+8C_Quick_Aux_Switch with HEXes for all the lights that build, see here: Anduril ... 2? - #1685 by dmenezes
Here’s a listing for that ZIP, showing all the HEXes in it (rightmost column):
Yes, soft start/stop works perfectly on my 1st-gen TS10. Post-off-Voltage-Display can’t, as it depends on controlled-RGB LEDs which only the newest TS10 V2s have.