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.
Thanks for this information. It is sad, but very useful to know.
The drivers came with a firmware dated 24/2/2020. I see you have a newer FW3A firmware in your depository. Is the Lume1 driver running the same firmware as the default FW3A driver or is it a different firmware and there is no update on the repository at the moment?
I just put the lume1 light next to my KR4 and I can verify the KR4 is massively more balanced! I did not test with a D4V2 but I don’t expect the aux boards between the 2 are different.
80% of the problem with the lume1 aux board comes from the brightness of the green, which os excessive and overshadows the others. 20% is the too dim blue. If anyone is working with electronics and has resistors available to try, it would be a great service to the community.
If it looks like Emisars, then yours does not have that issue. My Emisars all look great.
My FW3A with Lume1-FW3X has the same issue pol77 mentioned. It looks pretty bad when colors are mixed, because blue and red are too dim compared to green.