Software

The Hyperlight comes with its own lightweight software. All options are accessible through two different tabs. The first page allows for button remapping to mouse, keyboard, media, and macro functions, along with the ability to adjust debounce time, which effectively controls click latency, at a range of 0 to 8 ms in increments of 1 ms. "MotionSync" can be turned on or off, which turning on synchronizes SPI reads with USB polls at the cost of a motion penalty of up to an entire polling interval, though typically roughly equal to half of the set polling interval. "Auto Sleep" defines after how much idle time sleep mode is entered. Profile management is present as well. The second page houses CPI adjustment settings for up to four color-coded levels, ranging from 50 to 26,000 CPI in increments of 50 CPI. Values cannot be put in directly, as this function appears to be bugged. Also included are polling rate (125, 250, 500, 1000 Hz, with 2000, 4000, and 8000 Hz being exclusive to the 8K Wireless Dongle), LOD (1/2 mm), and angle snapping (on/off) adjustment options. "Ripple control" is disabled by default, but can be enabled to apply smoothing, which lessens jitter at higher CPI steps at the cost of increased motion delay. "High Performance" describes a sensor run mode, and is not available in wired operation, which automatically defaults to corded mode. In wireless operation using the default dongle, this toggle will actually enable the HP (high performance) sensor run mode, whereas when using the 8K Wireless Dongle, the sensor run mode will be set to corded, with no way of changing it. "Long Distance Mode" is supposed to boost antenna performance, which can be beneficial in noisy environments.

All setting changes are saved to the on-board memory, so the software does not need to be running (or even installed) all the time. On my system, the software had a RAM footprint of around 33 MB on average when running in the foreground, which doesn't change when minimized to the system tray, coupled with considerable CPU usage, the latter of which happens randomly. Upon exiting the application, all processes are terminated, as they should be.

Battery Life

Hitscan cites up to 75 hours of battery life, presumably at 1000 Hz and using the default sensor run mode. Though the software features a battery life indicator, it did not move at all during testing, which has me unable to gauge expected battery life.

Sleep mode is entered after one minute of inactivity by default, but this can be adjusted within the software.

Using the included USB Type-A to Type-C charging cable, I measured the charging speed during the constant current stage, which sits at 0.222 A when lifted and 0.207 A when not lifted. The battery has a capacity of 250 mAh (3.87 V) and utilizes a 3-pin JST connector.