I’ve been thinking about it more. Can we require that TK most preferably, or if not, someone else who will test and report, get a final prototype before we go forward? Is this possible? It might very well save a lot of issues in the long run.
Could anyone be kind enough to give a one sentence summary of where this is at?
Pages and pages of snips and snipes, giant collections of quotes nested 4 deep,…
Yeah, thanks Jon. I can see that on my own.
I was referring to it looks like that team isn’t there any more to update it and it’s all on TK and Neal now.
Won’t ask again.
Current status: Trying to get answers. Attempting to pull something solid out of the cloud of possibilities, so there can be a more concrete plan and schedule. Most of the remaining tasks depend on Neal nailing down details and making commitments.
Aside from trying to get answers, about the only task for me right now is to build new firmware with the latest updates, test it on proto2 for a few days, and send it for production to use.
This keeps most of the levels pretty stable and reasonably efficient, as far as linear drivers go. But it still has a direct drive circuit for turbo.
In a totally non-scientific qualitative manner, the overall efficiency curve compared to a constant current linear driver looks something like this:
LEDs also change tint according to the power level. This driver attempts to minimize that effect by blending power channels, but it may still be noticeable. The curve for that looks roughly like this:
If I remember to, I suppose I should probably put this info in the first post somewhere.