Programmable lights and battery change

[sjoe88]

I was wondering if you need to re-program the light levels on the DX SKU 17593 or an Akoray K106 3 mode programmable when you change out the battery? I'm thinking about order one of each to get a really low output.

Thanks

 

[Flying Turtle]

Welcome to CPF, sjoe88. I can't answer your question about these lights, as I have neither. However, I did just read somewhere here in the forum a comment that it is quite difficult to get the Akoray set for really low output. So if you are expecting to have something in the sub-2 lumen range with that light you might be disappointed.

Hopefully a knowledgeable soul will soon chime in.

Geoff

 

[newbie74]

I was waiting to be able to make a contribution on my first post, so here it comes:

No, you do not.

 

[sb56637]

I don't know how they do it, but no, it doesn't lose the settings after a battery change.

 

[march.brown]

Does the torch have a very small current flow (parasitic) when the torch is switched off ?

Normally when the batteries are removed it is just the same as when the torch is switched OFF ; there is no current flow.

Without exception , all my torches with memory still retain the "last setting" after changing the batteries.

People would soon get fed up if they had to reset everything every time they changed the batteries.
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[odd]

Does the torch have a very small current flow (parasitic) when the torch is switched off ?

Normally when the batteries are removed it is just the same as when the torch is switched OFF ; there is no current flow.

Without exception , all my torches with memory still retain the "last setting" after changing the batteries.

People would soon get fed up if they had to reset everything every time they changed the batteries.
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Some lights have a vary small current when turned off. Mostly those with the electronic in the tailcap like solarforce skline I..

In Lights with a "real" on/off twisty/clicky there can´t be any current in the off-position.
But you do not have to reprogramm it after switching it off or batterychange.. These lights use a microcontroller like tinyavr. The controller has a builtin storage(eeprom) that can store data for many years without a power source(just like a usbstick).

 

[AnAppleSnail]

Some lights have a vary small current when turned off. Mostly those with the electronic in the tailcap like solarforce skline I..

In Lights with a "real" on/off twisty/clicky there can´t be any current in the off-position.
But you do not have to reprogramm it after switching it off or batterychange.. These lights use a microcontroller like tinyavr. The controller has a builtin storage(eeprom) that can store data for many years without a power source(just like a usbstick).

And each bit there will "only" survive several hundred thousand read/write cycles. I've seen people worrying about that, but it's not any more likely to come up than thread wear.

 

[sjoe88]

I received my Akoray K-106 3 Mode programmable. I like it so far. It takes getting use to the programming sequence but it's not bad. And I can confirm that it holds the levels even during a battery change.