BLF A6 Driver & FirmWare Available to Buy Separately?

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Except that the A6 driver design is proprietary (wight) even though TKs firmware is not. I think somewhere in that giant thread there are posts explaining that permission would not be given to Chinese makers to sell these drivers as stand-alone components.

Richard certainly has something close but it won’t be dead cheap. Would you really want the “dead cheap” option after looking at some of the soldering photos we’ve seen recently?

I dispute that the delivered A6 driver is the same as Wight’s driver. The PCB is laid out differently. The circuit design is borrowed from the NANJG 105C with the addition of the MOSFET and OTC, so I don’t see how that can be proprietary. If this design is proprietary, then the Chinese makers can just add a resistor the the gate of the MOSFET and call their new design proprietary. This, by the way, would reduce the turbo-to-moon flicker and would thus be a better design.

I’m referring to the driver described here. If the A6 driver is a copy of another of Wight’s driver, please let me know and I will admit to being wrong.