The World's Most Advanced AMC7135 * 8 Driver

There is always some soldering involved. ;)

Exactly what I have in mind when I was doing my DIY driver.
If only you can place the USB connector on the VBat spring side so that you don’t have to remove the driver to re-program. Love it! :beer:

This and texaspyro's SRK driver are going to make me very happy with my flashlights.

depend on it price maybe i’ll take 1 :bigsmile:

Wow! That's great news!

Please put me down for some, like 5-10, of these. Depending on the price, of course. :)

When the price isn't mentioned, I always assume the worst... but if it's around some number which I am not going to mention lest it be ridiculously over or under the actual you can count me in for some as-yet unspecified quantity.

What's next? Programmable 12-18v buck driver? (please?) 0:)

That is a fantastic driver for almost every need. But my first thought was: when every 7135 is individually controlled, by cutting some traces this can custom control the color mce/xml

Yes, absolutely. You can turn on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 Full AMC7135s plus run the 8th one between OFF and ON in 1024 increments (PWM).

PPtk

Yes. You can stack them.

See the 8th Bullet Point. Already included.

I suppose I'm not entirely opposed to this, but how many hosts really use a 17mm driver with a Press Fit? I'd hate to make everyone sand their driver just in order to support the very odd press-in host..

I don't have a single light that uses a 17mm Press-In Driver. What's the community consensus?

PPtk

It's not impossible, but the big problem would be physical wiring. Because of all the 'stuff' on this board, it is JAM PACKED. It would also require some custom firmware - this isn't something that would be supported by the stock programming utility.

PPtk

No real limit from an electronic perspective. Each microcontroller pin can easily drive a dozen AMC7135s, so you could stack a LOT. Heat will be your enemy at that point, though. If you can control the heat, stack away.

Yeah, I'd have liked it on that side as well.. On 17mm, however, there just isn't space. If I were going to make a 20mm variant of this, I would do exactly that.

The price will be higher than zero and less than a million-gazillion-bazillion yen. Unless I finish it on a Tuesday, then it might be slightly more, or slightly less. If I finish it on a Thursday, it will be twice as much as if I finish it on a Friday, and either way, it will be half the cost of an undisclosed number of shots of Johnny Walker Black.

:)

Seriously though, price to be determined. I have to see what the assembly is really going to cost. I'm not trying to get rich with these - this is my hobby after all - but I can't sell them at a loss :)

PPtk

So when can we get a sneak peak at the software? Can it be started and "played with" without the device attached?

And yes, I understand that you probably don't want to be dealing with a million comments/suggestions/questions on that right now.

Once again - congrats on a fantastic thread!

Very very interesting.

Will wait and see how much they will go for.

Thanks for doing this.

Soon.. I haven't put in ANY dummy-proofing yet, so doing ANYTHING that isn't perfectly expected will cause a run-time error / crash. I despise people who release code like that, so I won't do it myself. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some time to put in at least some rudimentary sanity checking and then I'll be happy to release a conceptual version..

PPtk

I'm waiting to see too :)

Glad you like it, and my pleasure. This is my relaxation, believe it or not :)

I've really become a fan of using solder wick to make drivers a press fit even where they'd usually be soldered. I tinker far far too much to deal with busting solder loose all the time.