Interesting. It runs a version of Bistro, modified so the 7135 channel drives color emitters separately from the FET channel, which drives white emitters. In practice, it’s basically Bistro except the lowest mode or two is a color instead of white. I should probably contact Recon1/Deadwood to let them know how free software works, since they don’t appear to be following the license terms (need to provide source code, or at least a link to it). This is pretty normal for anyone who is new to this sort of thing though, and I have a fill-in-the-blanks letter I can send about it.
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Okay, sent. I hope the sales address gets to the right person.
Yes, and I’ve already worked things out with CWF and RMM. CWF even sent me a nice purple Dragon S2+ with green LEDs, just because he wanted to be nice. I’m not previously familiar with Recon1 or Deadwood Custom Works though, and the license applies to anyone who distributes the code — including when used inside a product they sell.
This sort of thing happens all the time, is easy to resolve, and typically isn’t a big deal. It’s just interesting stumbling across my code in places I didn’t know about.
While we’re guessing, I know how you feel about assumptions and all that, but putting you on the spot, if you absolutely HAD to guess, when do you think FW3A sales will begin? Do you think/hope May sounds reasonable?
Think we can engineer it to not need a battery?
Electrolyte solution cathode in the battery tube, some sort of resin coating on the inner tube for the separation layer then the tantalum body is the anode.