AW mag incandescent driver with soft start

[NotBrightNuf]

Does anyone have this switch? If so, what is the quality like? Is it worth $70

 

[cernobila]

You are talking about the soft start/three level switches, right?........I have one of these in my C Mag, D Mag and now four of my Solarforce switches......they are all different products but do the same job and work well.

 

[KiwiMark]

Does anyone have this switch? If so, what is the quality like? Is it worth $70

I have 2 of these. Worth $70? Hard to say, what are we comparing them to? I don't know of anything else that I can buy to do the same thing so I can't fairly say that I paid too much for them.

The quality & performance of the AW switch (I have the Mag D version) seems very high to me. They do what they are designed to do and the 3 levels is actually pretty useful. I have one that puts through about 190W on fresh batteries - no problems!

 

[NotBrightNuf]

AW soft start 3 stage d cell switch

This switch has three brightness settings 30%, 60%, and 100%. If I run an osram 64623 on this switch and get 10 minutes of runtime at 100% then wouldn't I get somewhere around 25 minutes of runtime at 30%?

 

[Patriot]

Re: AW soft start 3 stage d cell switch

You'll probably see more than 25 minutes provided the steps are true 30, 60, 100. This is because the battery delivers more capacity when the load decreases.

 

[DM51]

NotBrightNuf, you started 2 different threads for questions about the same item. You didn't need to do that - it's best to stick to 1 thread. Otherwise we get the same answers dupicated all over the place, and a lot of confusion. I'm merging the 2 threads.

 

[circa]

does anybody else notice a buzzing with the switch?
other then that it works perfectly have to get ear right next to it to hear it.
I didnt buy it because of the soft start but more for the 30/60/100/off/strobe feature. Being its the only one like that out there (that i could find) makes it worth the money.

kind of unimpressed with the mr16's but im still experimenting.
might switch to a 458 or something

 

[AW]

The buzzing you hear is from the resonance of the bulb filament under PWM, not from the switch components.