Oshpark Projects

Well not quite… 1912 is 191 with 2 zeroes… 191 x 10 to the second power… 191 to the tenth power is a rather big number…

And just to make matters more confusing, 1% resistors (which you should be using in the battery monitor voltage divider) have a totally different marking code:

http://www.marsport.org.uk/smd/res.htm

The resistor that’s standing up is to help soften the blow to the MCU when the big FET is switching on/off under PWM. I used that one erroneously and it severely affected the levels in my UI. As in it killed 2 of the 4 levels. The correct 200 ohm resistor lets everything work smoothly. Comfy has stated it could even be 150 ohm or 100.

Yeah, I don’t know why it’s only 5.8A…was looking for 6.6 or more. (Kinda like saying I’m disappointed my Cadillac Seville STS would only go 134mph when I was looking for 150, right? :wink: )

I have a few different heatsinks that I use for testing. One of them has a 1" x 4" solid copper bar press fitted into the aluminum finned portion. All of my emitters read low on that thing even direct drive until a few minutes pass then if I switch to new cells it will do it with some heat. I can take the same emitter and place it on one of my aluminum heatsinks and it reads much closer to what I see in my flashlights. Keeping these emitters cooler certainly seems to raise the vF significantly.

This copper pill for the HD2010 I believe weighs 73grams. The C8 from Buck has more than 8 ounces of copper under the copper star and it does 6.61A with an Efest 35A and the FET Qlite.

Nice job. How did you connect to ground?

I've added in-line and parallel resistors to the FET gate on the following boards, all marked as V2.0:

BLF15DD V2.0

BLF17DD V2.0

BLF20DD V2.0


The SRK FET board will have to wait to be updated. Somehow the Eagle files for it have become corrupted and some of the layers have been deleted. It's a fair bit of work to get it back to the state it was and I just don't have time to build it back up this weekend sorry :(

- Matt

I’ll update the op and put a “do not order” on the SRK board.

Is it the files on your computer or the Oshpark files?

My PC. The OSHPark files are gerber files which are useless for editing.

The ground ring on the inside of the board is pressed into the copper pill ledge, so it’s working with just that. I had planned to solder a wire from one of the ground via’s to the copper pill, and might still, but it’s working with no flickering so for now I’m leaving it be.

My HD2010 Tangsfire from O-L’s group buy came in today…perfect timing. Dropped the copper light engine in and added a cell , bingo! Efest 26650 does ~4.74A and an Efest 35A 18650 does 5.51A with the nicely spaced 4 modes. Finally, it came together and worked like a charm. :slight_smile:

With the Efest 26650 down to 4.08V, I’m getting 1252 OTF at start and 1204 OTF at 30 seconds.
With the Sony US VTC4 at 4.19V, I’m seeing 1711.20 OTF at start, and 1611.15 OTF at 30 seconds. This comes with 5.42A at the tail. Decent HD2010, I like it!

I tried to create FR4 16mm MCPCB for new CREE

XQ-E XB-H with eagle, but it is not too good!

Someone creates? LEDs are very interesting ... ;)

Just one LED in the center of a 16mm PCB?

I know y’all are all over this FET driver stuff, and really keen on the big hoss lights. So you should get as much of a kick or exasperated reaction to this as I did. My Dad’s brother is 79, a very practical and successful businessman. Also a perfectionist. He came over today to watch some college basketball with my Dad, 85.

My uncle drove up as the mailman was delivering my new HD2010 from O-L’s group buy. I had built an BLF FET 17mm DD driver for this yesterday, and assembled the copper pill with XM-L2 U2 1D emitter so that it was ready when the light got here. I put it together, dropped in a 26650 and fired it up. Took it in and showed it to my Dad and Uncle. J.D. was impressed, very bright (it was doing about 1200 lumens on that particular cell, capable of 1700)

Then he said this “Who would want a light like that? I mean, why do you make it so bright?”

After I laughed I told him it depends on where you asked, in the right places…Everyone!

Then he asked how long the battery would last. I explained the ratio of amp draw to battery capacity and that it has 4 levels. He very quickly grasped that “you wouldn’t need to use it that high for long at a time, the next mode down would suffice most of the time” (he said this in a sort of muted, thinking about it, tone) So, in a nutshell, even a novice can see the need for modes. lol

My Dad thinks my lights are great, but can’t understand why I keep building them for ME and not selling them, lol, what good are they if you’re not making anything on em? Perhaps, after about 25 lights, he’s got a point…. (I remember growing up out here in the country, with 43 cars around…yes, Dad had 43 cars!) Now if I could figure out why I have over 50 flashlights, I could explain that to my wife and maybe get off that hook…

Nice anecdote. Now get back to work. :slight_smile:

I picked up some of the irlm 2502 mosfets that Werner had mentioned in the development of a driver he is working on and since the larger 70N02 won’t fit on the 15 mm version Mattaus designed the BLFDD15 V1.0-2.0 to use this chip instead. Up until now I don’t think anyone has had a chance to try them out though I did send a few to Dbcstm and Warhawk-AVG. The larger boards have taken precedence in development so far. However, this evening I was finally able to get a bit of time to set up a test board. It is a 105C that some of the drive chips were not working on so I cleared them off and cleaned it up.

I didn’t have to mod the board other than to scrape a bit of the solder mask off the output trace for the drain pin of the FET. It just barely straddles the output trace with the gate and ground pins soldered accordingly.

You might have noticed a short from + to ground in that pic, I didn’t at first so I was a bit disappointed when it didn’t work. Once fixed I tested it with a 10180 and got 33, 235, and 510mA with reliable mode switching. Next up was an Efest 10440. With that cell the levels were 41, 410, and 1450 mA also with reliable mode switching. This is without any extra components other than stock 105C parts. I then tried it with a protected 16340 ultra fire and another cheap, protected 14500 cell neither which were close to the Efest 10440. One topped out at 1A and the other at only 700mA. Lastly was a protected trustfire flame that topped 1.8A but flashed and dimmed in the middle mode but low and high seemed ok.

This was by no means a definitive test and I didn’t track cell voltage other than to verify each one tested was around 4V but it does seem to indicate promise for the 15mm board and possibly even a Tiny10 version where no room is available for a stack of 7135’s. Rather than order the new boards just yet I’d like to try this with the extra R’s on the gate pin. I’ll find out then how much it will handle from an Efest 14650 or unprotected 18650 Mikita pull.

Thanks for sharing Scott!

Someone asked if the 15mm board had been tested yet and I had to say no. Figured it was time to get on this. The rest of you(Comfychair mostly) have been doing a ton of work on this project and I’m just doing what I can when I can.

My BLF17DD boards have been working great so far, both the first version without the ground ring on spring side and the second version. I already ordered some of the "2.0" boards with inline resistor pads. I have been running mine with a 200 ohm resistor in between the gate and MCU, also tried a 50 and 100 ohm which worked fine but had a ton of the 200 ohm already for zener mods. I think that 100 ohms is more in line with what may be ideal although 200 ohms if it works shouldn't hurt anything.

I haven't been using any pulldown resistors yet, are they really needed since we switch the power off on these at the same time we switch the PWM off?

Thanks for mentioning that. I used one of the extras from a Zener kit and it stabilized the modes nicely. The lower modes are too high and star 4 is all ahoo but default, blimkies, and low high work fine. Star 4 does 700, 800, 900, and 1500mA in the 4 modes with the 10440. Obviously the stock firmware is a bit inadequate for this use but the main thing was to confirm the operation of the FET and it certainly looks suitable for small lights.

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Just one LED in the center of a 16mm PCB?

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We think it's perfect to put out torches by shooting. 16mm I think goes well!

XB-H

is a package 2.45x2.45 with 1.5Ampere from datasheet (XP-E 3.45x3.45)

Even XQ-E is interesting, maybe twists EDC

is 78% smaller than the XP-E! 1.6x1.6 datasheet from 1Ampere

I'm curious to try them both!

Thanks Mattaus!

CREE XB-H 16mm star

This is what you wanted, correct?