Yes, that’s fine by me. My hand is the temperature protection. Lol
Plus, I’ve recently switched to unprotected Liitokalas for more output so the LVP is more important to me even though I’ll have the lighted side switch to tell me if the rear switch is on or off.
So made some progress on merging Narsil 2 channel and 3 channel, so I have one source code base now with a header file called setups.h. In setups.h, you define all the board configuration settings and other compile time user option settings.
It's compiling now for 2 channel and 3 channel, with indicator LED enabled or disabled, and using R1/R2 or internal V1.1 ref for voltage monitoring.
Totally untested, but it compiles.
Next to do is actually try it...
Some Details:
It has the more advanced, simplified version of the configuration settings UI that's in the 2 channel latest version of Narsil, v1.3. One new feature is ability to set the temperature threshold for thermal stepdown. There's probably a couple more tweaks as well in LVP and thermal stepdown, results from more recent testing.
Testing will take some time - may need to actually build up a couple boards, etc.
looks like the new BLF GT buck driver that's in the design/proto phase will be a perfect fit for this combined Narsil version - I'm calling it NarsilM for now: Multi-channel configuration
the GT buck driver will just be another channel configuration, but with some special needs. Two I/O PWM pins, but slightly different behavior
I'm a big fan of the TA triple drivers, so I want/need to get this done!! (as I hit myself over the head...)
You will need to add a resistor inline with the LED in this case or it will drain the battery very quickly. A normal through hole resistor could be used easy enough. Something around 30k-50k ohms generally works out ok.
Are you guys talk'n bout a tail bleeder LED (Bistro - clicky) or locator LED w/Narsil? For Narsil I use somewhere between 2K and 15K, depends on the LED(s) and visibility of the LED.
Well, it sounds like he is talking about installing an indicator LED using the tailcap bleeder pads.
So it would remain on 24/7 and drain the battery continually. 50k ohm resistor tends to have the final output be around ~0.050ma from my testing, so a little over 1ma per day of drain.
This makes more sense and it also means you don’t need a resistor, or at least as big of one. But in this case you can’t use the bleeder resistor pads. I am not sure what pads you need to use but I think the voltage divider pads. Never used an indicator LED with narsil before myself.