sir_guy123
Newly Enlightened
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2011
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jumping to this section as the discussion is now regarding modifying my torch. if you want my full history look at this thread (started 7 years ago!)
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?325005-I-thought-Maglites-were-the-best
this is the last post from that thread (I'd lost my Xeno E03)
Found it!
underneath a friends sideboard.
so I'm happy, but... in the meantime my parents bought me a torch form Aldi, it's actually quite good, similar to the E03 in size and shape, tail switch, takes 3aaa's but its only one mode and its actually very bright, comparable to the E03 in high mode (NiMH), so no good for preserving your night adapted vision, so I had plans to modify it and put a microcontroler (ATtiny85) in there, and now I don't want to stop, I've got the microprocessor ordered and the MOSFETs are already here, I've got the code written (Arduino IDE) for 4 brightness modes but am now considering strobe modes...
probably best to start this as a new thread on the modification forum.
so here I am!
what I'm interested to know is do any of you actually 'want / use' 'strobe / flashing / SOS etc' modes? or are they something everyone just cycles through?
also what 'one button' user interface do you find best?
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?325005-I-thought-Maglites-were-the-best
this is the last post from that thread (I'd lost my Xeno E03)
Found it!
underneath a friends sideboard.
so I'm happy, but... in the meantime my parents bought me a torch form Aldi, it's actually quite good, similar to the E03 in size and shape, tail switch, takes 3aaa's but its only one mode and its actually very bright, comparable to the E03 in high mode (NiMH), so no good for preserving your night adapted vision, so I had plans to modify it and put a microcontroler (ATtiny85) in there, and now I don't want to stop, I've got the microprocessor ordered and the MOSFETs are already here, I've got the code written (Arduino IDE) for 4 brightness modes but am now considering strobe modes...
probably best to start this as a new thread on the modification forum.
so here I am!
what I'm interested to know is do any of you actually 'want / use' 'strobe / flashing / SOS etc' modes? or are they something everyone just cycles through?
also what 'one button' user interface do you find best?