I then ordered a Texas Avenger FET driver from Lexel.
I just got my TA driver installed. Everything works including the lighted side switch! Yeah, I’m 2 for 2.
It’s pulling 12 amps with the Liitokalas at 4.1 volt. Yikes! It might be higher when fully charged. Maybe I should NOT have used 18ga wires? I need to tone it down a little.
The scary thing is after about 10 or 15 seconds I see the light color start to shift towards blue/purple. I quickly turned it down in brightness. Maybe the 20mm DTP copper star is having trouble with that heat? (EDIT, it was my copper shims, not the star or LED)
I tried my KeepPower protected 5200 and got 9.6 amps at 4.2 volts. No color shift seen.
For those that want to use a lighted side switch on the TexaS Avenger FET driver in the L6, here is the basic layout.
My “power on” led resistor broke in two when I tried to put test probes on it to measure the resistance. I hope that’s not a sign that there was an issue with the solder paste. Update, I broke the resistor, paste was fine.
Since I’m running 2 leds in parallel I’ll swap that 4,700 ohm resistor for something double in size. 10k to 20k should be fine. I used a 15K resistor.
BTW, I swapped the white leds to red leds to the switch this time around just to be different. They are not as bright as the whites, but still okay.
Simple little video here for anyone interested.