Just wanted to post a note for all those who subscribed to this thread. Thank you all for patience. Also, many thanks to Neal from Nealsgadgets for his hard work getting the logistics to line up well. It was a challenging process due to all the delays and logistical issues due to the pandemic, but Neal has finally got the first batch of the drivers for sale!
These drivers are just off the production line and they're so new that I haven't yet got my hands on them yet, I've only done validation work with pre-production samples.
Thank you loneoceans for making this driver possible.
I ordered 4, to replace in all my compatible lights. I hopethis design will become available in other sizes so it can be used in other lights as well, even though making it smaller may not be possible.
I would suggest to Neal to include the required wires with the set of driver and aux board, as many of us, myself included, do not have coloured silicone wires of the appropriate size.
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I do not believe the tweaking of the resistors to equalize auxiliary LED brightness actually happened or was successful. In my Mokume FW3A, blue is quite dim, red is slightly brighter and green is way brighter than both.
Also, the Aux board was wired using one black, one white and two red wires, which works electrically but does not work with my OCD, so I replaced them with the proper colours.
And another driver I bought from Neal and installed today as well. I have a sneaking suspicion they may have swapped the resistors for green and blue by mistake.
Getting the right resistor values for balanced RGB is somewhat difficult and fiddly, requiring careful adjustment by trial and error. It’s do-able, but it involves a level of care and attention to detail that I was never able to get from Neal or Lumintop during the FW3A project.
