WalkIntoTheLight
Flashlight Enthusiast
Great review, I have one question about something you mentioned, though:
Are you saying that the SC5 uses PID to control output, if the light gets too hot? (In addition to a 3-minute timer on max.) IOW, if you didn't use a cooling fan, that your output graphs might step-down as the light gets hot (before the battery runs out)?
With the slightly larger head of the SC5, Zebralight was able to adapt their current PID thermal regulation circuit, with its temperature sensors and 384 possible sub-levels (also used on the PD62 and SC600-II). In this case however, they have kept a timed step-down for the max level (which is a lot simpler to program, apparently).
Are you saying that the SC5 uses PID to control output, if the light gets too hot? (In addition to a 3-minute timer on max.) IOW, if you didn't use a cooling fan, that your output graphs might step-down as the light gets hot (before the battery runs out)?