My order arrived yesterday! Had everything arrive extremely well packaged, and everything went together almost without a hitch!
Unfortunately it looks like the RGB LEDs don’t like heat or I otherwise ham handed something, ’cause one of them the red channel no longer works and I managed to kill another one. This was 100% my fault, it arrived perfectly functioning. Time to source some new RGB LEDs!
Additionally, where could I add a bleed resistor to an LD-x4 that I didn’t select as an option to use an illuminated tail cap?
LD-x4 doesn't use resistor for bleeder but small jfet transistor 2SK3796 (you will see 3-pin empty space for it on driver - if you ordered one without bleeder option), parasitic current consumption during driver ON time is significantly lower compared to resistor (1mA vs 6-20mA).
But adding ~300Ohm resistor between driver spring pad and gnd ring would work too.
I just built a light using the LD-B4 driver and one of your quad pcbs. I couldn’t find a diagram showing the connections of the socket on the pcb. I had to carefully study the pictures of your example build. Is there no diagram anywhere?
Question: mode advance in the LD-4 drivers is done by a half click, that’s pretty obvious. But is movement in the other direction possible? Eg. by a double click. I can’t find anything about this in the instruction
There is no diagram at the moment, for 3x and 4x 32mm mosX boards connections are:
Pin1 - GATE (Pin1 is 1st from the left if you look from pcb center)
Pin2 - TEMP/NTC
Pin3 - MOONLIGHT
For 6x 34mm mosX boards connections are:
Pin1 - GATE (Pin1 is 1st from the left if you look from pcb center)
Pin2 - MOONLIGHT
Pin3 - TEMP/NTC
If customer buys one of these MCPCBs with all options included, I put connector with wires in package, so customer doesn't need to worry about this, he only needs to solder those wires correctly to driver (red-gate,white-temp, blue or yellow-moonlight).
Thanks. I bought the parts used and did actually manage to switch moonlight and temp which means that the overtemp protection doesn’t work correctly. It was easy to fix though.
I build 2x Convoy S2+ few days ago (post in mod thread) but today have time to take more pictures.
Both with l4p mpcb and drivers and with custom retaining ring from kiriba-ru.
The leds are Luxeon V and Nichia 219-b-v1 sw45k 9080. I read that the nichia led become more pink at current higher than 2Amps (1,5Amps now) So, probably change the driver to LD-4 3Amp in the future
Thanks for the clearance boards! I just bought a few yesterday. I wish I could have bought more but I’ve been spending a lot on other things already this year. I also bought another Q8 4040/5050 board, and it made me wonder if you ever sold enough to break even on those. You had said before that a lot of people who showed interest never bought any of them, and you were stuck with a lot of unsold boards. I know that was before I had bought any, and I’ve bought a couple of them since then. So, I’m hoping others have stepped up too, and you don’t lose money.
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