[released] 17mm 8x7135 with Zener & dual-PWM + stubborn: A17PZL

[wight]

@DBCstm

RMM offers a build service, Wight does NOT. (Do you?)

RMM’s drivers are designed for RMM to use in his own builds, he’s not trying to make it easy for the masses only making it do what he wants it to. This is the critical difference and of course for us on the end both drivers work exceedingly well. Those large pads are indeed appreciated by those of us that drink too much coffee and are too lazy to take the large stock tip off the soldering iron.

Both of you guys are over the top and greatly appreciated.

You’re right DBCstm, that’s certainly one major difference! I encourage everyone to build their own. :-p The only drivers I currently offer to build are the drivers in my Lux-Pro kit.

@pilotdog68

Your first bullet point was enough for me!

To underscore that point: These 3 pictures show my A17PZL driver (which uses full size 0805 footprints) on the right and a different driver which employs 0603 footprints on the left. As you can see I’ve got a pair of 0805 sized components for each driver and I proceed to lay them onto the pads. 0603 pads are usable for 0805 (and there is a specification for using that sized pads for 0805, it’s not just some hack). The difference is that hand soldering, inspection, and rework are all more difficult with the smaller pads. Click for big versions.