Edited with all the components…
Thanks Dale. That’s not the direction I had it initially, but I swapped it before wight informed me of my other glaring mistake. Now that I know what the arrow means, I shouldn’t have any issues with future drivers.
CK has got me thinking with some of his recent posts…
I want to try to use the alternate PWN output to power a red xpe for the moonlight modes. At first I thought it would be easy, but then I remembered that the 7135 in question on this driver is on the bottom. Is there anywhere I could drill a small hole or something to get that chip in a separate output and run a new LED- wire?
I have no idea how feasible that is but you can always stack a 7135 and air wire to that. Just solder the tab and the center GND pin then run an airwire to the PWM leg from pin6 and airwire off the out pin to the LED-. That would keep your output’s all on top.
Drilling a hole might be just as easy tho, never see one of these to know if there’s open space for a hole.
that sounds easy, but I’m not sure my soldering skills are good enough to attach a wire to those little pins
I’d skip this driver for that application. If you insisted, then I’d stick with CK’s airwire recommendation.
Please see my posts here for more information on the subject: dentillozie - is there a 2channel driver for single liion?
thanks wight. I might just try the airwire bit, simply because I already have the board and it’s already in the light.
If i did give it a go, would I just not populate the normal place for the Alt 7135 to prevent the white led’s from lighting on moon?
It looks like I’ll be doing exactly what dentillozie wanted in that other thread.
That’s right. If you dislike the aesthetic issue of leaving one 7135 missing on the bottom simply cut the PWM and/or output traces going to that 7135 and populate it anyway.
You could also use the 17mm FET+1 driver, didn’t you order some of those?
I haven’t looked at it yet, but ToyKeeper’s new firmware is probably the thing to do for 2-channel red/white drivers like what you are talking about.
I used all of my FET+1 boards (more are already ordered), but I want to have more control over my amp draw anyways. The only cell I have that fits in my convoy S5 is a samsung 20R, and the LED’s are going on a cheap aluminum triple mcpcb. I suppose I could order a moonlight special board, it would probably make it here before my red XPE from fasttech.
I will probably end up using TK’s firmware, but I need to figure out how to disable the “medium press” actions. I just want normal offtime behavior.
I’m confident that this can be done better, but here’s something:
- 17mm
- similar design guidelines to the PZL driver
- using smaller, rounded 0805 pads
- centered via for BAT+ allows spring bypass on tiny spring
- 8+1 design w/ separate outputs on top
- Ugly inside and out. Frankly the layout on the top side is pretty questionable.
I think I left a lot on the table in terms of making a clean, sensible layout. Maybe I’ll take another crack at it. Also, maybe I’ll create a driver thread for it… later.
Well… That escalated quickly!
It could still be used as a 8+1 moonlight driver of course, but a person would have to add a little jumper wire going to the middle 7135 on top.
I’m still getting the feeling that this could be done better, but I’ve created another layout for the top. This layout allows for a standard Dual-PWM config (8+1) or by cutting a single easily accessible trace it becomes a two-channel driver with 8x / 1x.
[WIP] 17mm 9x 7135 for dual-PWM or white/red: A17-L81
Are you confident enough in this one to make it worth ordering?
So after finally thinking I’ve got my mind wrapped around the firmware, and going through two usbasp’s (first was apparently a dud), and then getting an SOIC clip with the MOSI wire clipped off by whoever put it up on ebay…
My driver is running quite stably… off of only one 7135 on all modes. I hate to be that guy asking a question without giving hardly any information as to what my set up is, but do y’all know of any glaring reason(s) why that might happen? Does moon mode need to be commented out so the MCU won’t be hunting for a grounded star that would enable/disable moon mode? Running the latest star_offtime, dual_PWM uncommented, dual_PWM_start uncommented and left at 8, turbo rampdown basically stock, high is commented out still. After looking at the firmware over and over, I’m relatively convinced it isn’t the problem as I didn’t change much besides uncommenting the obvious dual_PWM related stuff.
So I reckon there must be a short somewhere. But I’ve got no idea where. Would getting C1 and the OTC mixed up do that? They’re pretty darn similar in size and I can’t hardly tell which is 10uF and which is 1uF. I think I’ve got D1 oriented correctly… but just in case, if it were backwards would it cause the driver to run on one 7135 instead of all of them on turbo?
Kindof at a loss. The driver looks fine to me - no blobs of solder anywhere bridging components or anything like that. Almost seems like I don’t have enough on some 7135s maybe, but I built the driver with solder paste + hot air as I’ve done several times before successfully (with other drivers using attiny’s flashed by RMM, not by me). Any help greatly appreciated.
- How do you know it’s only operating on one?
- Post your code. Use a service such as pastbin.
My DMM is reading exactly 0.38A on turbo both at the LED and at the tail and I’m using 380mA 7135’s.
Took some pics of the driver… it’s kinda beat up from being soldered into and out of a brass pill a few times. Need a better testing setup.
I’m thinking those caps have got to be backwards — C1 ought to be bigger than the OTC right?
Also need to adjust LVP values. Would 137 and 130 be about right for ~3.0V and ~2.85V?
It’s not the caps.
D1 doesn’t look quite well soldered next to pin 8. Looks skewed off the pad.