If I may ask, what's this statement based on? If you've seen issues with them yourself, what was the sample size? Or is this based on a picture somebody uploaded that then got passed around until 'everybody knows' they must all have issues?
Well, I’d prefer do my work right way, not discuss somebody’s mistakes
Just put it here
You have a funny way of not discussing it.
comfychair, bingo!
I'm sorry, but what I mean is you're playing the awfully tired passive-aggressive game by bringing it up first, then saying you're not going to talk about it, and then posting a picture of who-knows-what from who-knows-where. You just showed up here doing... whatever you're doing, and Hank has been good to an awful lot of us for a long time.
I have had a lot of Noctigons in my hands and not seen anything like what's in your clever picture.
You seem like a nice fellow though, so I will just wish you well in your future endeavors and let this play out as it may.
Ok, let’s return to serious side, sorry for my clownery
comfychair, first copper direct connect I’ve try was SinkPad and second Noctigon
I have some censorious remarks for both
I don’t base on somebodies pictures or judgment – it’s my own experience
All sinkpad have problems with design: very thin power paths plus no way out for solder from thermal-pad
Some noctigons (I’ve bought it from IO) have problems with gap between thermal-pad and power-pads layers and some others have a problem with positioning
Pictures above-n-below (it’s my picture and these boards was bought from IO) shown it
I’m understand baffling complexity of producing copper MCPCB
And now I’ll try to produce some better product, no more
Thanks for making these boards and posting here, your boards really look nice, and thanks for explaining how they will be better than Sinkpads or Noctigons. I (and others) have not found a significant lack of performance with either Sinkpads or Noctigons (it may just be ignorance ;-) ), but I guess that if you measure well you could see a benefit from the thermal pad and connecting pads being exactly level.
I'm not a large-scale consumer, but I'm in for three triple boards and two quad boards, if only for the very elegant design :-)
Well, triples almost ready
They look great.
Feels a bit like klingon styling. :bigsmile:
The copper klingon triple.
Nice, I'm still in for a few :-)
I'm not entirely sure how I'd use it yet, but I'm in for a few too.
Interesting.
Able to supply with chosen led already mounted and tested to work ?
I actually have a few of the Carclo quads so this is interesting. They are even more floody than triples however. Khatod makes a 20mm quad that has deeper optics but the peg footprint doesn’t match the Carclo quad(pegs closer to edge on Khatod). To work with both optics the peg holes would need to be elongated radially.
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My bad, those are 25.4mm optics but I believe the led footprint is the same as on the 20mm Carclo, the extra 5.4 mm allows for the deeper optics. Still, a board that works for both would be nice. Probably too late though.
I’m in for a couple of parallel triples and a couple of quads
Any updates, particularly on the quad version?
Guys, sorry for delay
First batch was moved to trash (It’s happened sometime, yep)
Second batch of triples is ready and I’m sending it to participators right now
After that I’ll count the rest and offer it here
Quads must be ready this week
Hope update the thread soon
Guys, sorry for delay First batch was moved to trash (It’s happened sometime, yep) Second batch of triples is ready and I’m sending it to participators right now !http://lumenaddict.com/pic/flashLight/MCPCB/Direct/TriplesWhole.jpg! !http://lumenaddict.com/pic/flashLight/MCPCB/Direct/fine.jpg! After that I’ll count the rest and offer it here Quads must be ready this week Hope update the thread soon
wow, that is a lot of boards . What was wrong with the first batch I wonder?
(still in for a few triple and quad boards :-) )
wow, that is a lot of boards
One US guy ordered 750 pieces )
What was wrong with the first batch I wonder?
As usual – some gap between thermal-pad and board layer. They offer big discount for it, but I was unbending and force them to re-make it
Triples? Quads? Why would I want them? What would I do with them? Ive not even reflowed a single led let alone 3 or 4.
But Ill take a one of each if these are pure copper.
Triples? Quads? Why would I want them? What would I do with them? Ive not even reflowed a single led let alone 3 or 4. But Ill take a one of each if these are pure copper.
I love your attitude! Does it make sense? No. Better get at least two. Awesome.