I’ll be in St John this week end. I think they speak Canadian there but guessing. I was going to offer to take that worthless King off your hands, assuming you don’t have a total dud
Seriously, for $40 with warts and all, I really like this soup can of light. I’m looking forward for a kit or finished driver board as well.
St.John (New Brunswick), they speak completely intelligible English
St.John’s (Newfoundland), umm, yeah. hmm. It varies. At best you will be fine, worst it sounds like a cross between a drunken irishman and a hillbilly. (Said with love however, you won’t find nicer people than the Newfies)
I have faith in Pyro to come through on these drivers, so for now the king with continue collecting dust on the shelf.
PM Me the specifications. Size of circle, Panel Array you'd like (x by y), Rail Size, Min Trace/Space, Min Hole Size, Finish Plating (HASL or ENIG). I'll run the quote through work tomorrow. We get pretty darn good pricing on 2 layer boards because we order so many sq. inches per month. As long as you're ordering a fair number of panels, it will probably come back pretty darn cheap. Solder Mask can be any color you want (within reason) for no extra cost. 2oz copper adds a few cents (literally) per board.
I just give up on SRK idea completely. When this thing started 5 months ago SRK was “da man” now, there are clones of clones that were cloned, then kungs, kongs and what not, was interesting then funny and now it’s just boring…
The problem that I have been having is finding somebody that can do round boards on a panel for a decent price. Getting loose boards is easy, getting them panelized so they can be mass produced has been a problem… quotes have been up to 20 times what loose boards can be had for.
This is the best driver topic ever. I will be interested in two of these drivers definitely if you do begin building them to sell.
I will keep watch on this topic.
My $30 King died today, last week one of the leds quit and then today I tried using it briefly and the remaining two leds have only one mode, a new very weak moon mode. :_(
I used it probably 15 to 20 hours before it died, I was hoping it would last longer. I liked using it on low under the house fixing plumbing leaks. I guess I have a reason to mod it now.
Finally got a quote back on some large quantities of AMC7135 chips. Will probably build them up with 350 mA chips (2.8A/LED)… 380 mA ones cost twice as much. Adding a single 350 mA chip would bring the current to 3A/LED