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[vulbas]

you are using the 5v ?

[zebulon]

5v ?

The board is designed for the 350mA and the 700mA leds. I guess that would make it 3W and 6W compatible

[zebulon]

All working as planned.

Tweaked the design of the motor/contactor board and added an amplifier circuit and voltage control circuit for the contactor power. Basically means that the 12v from the atx supply can be boosted up to 35v to run a knocker and that an offshoot of the 35v can be adjusted down to anywhere between the two voltages (12 - 35) to dial in a supply voltage for the contactors (ie. 24v)

Testing on the bench here shows that the entire system can be run happily from a 300w generic atx power supply. No more need for 5v, 12v, 24v, 48v individual power supplies.

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Edited by zebulon, 11 November 2012 - 02:23 PM.

[jasonsmith]

That's impressive. Good work, hopefully I can take advantage of this some day. Need a better pc first.

[nocarrier]

When will the latest revised boards that you posted in post #203 be available?

[zebulon]

The final revision of the boards in on order. Once I have received, assembled and tested them I should be able to figure out a final price and availability.

I'm hoping to be able to accomplish that in 3 weeks or so.

[nocarrier]

Please let me know. I am in the middle of a new cabinet build and I am going to hold out for that board.

Thanks, much appreciated.

[zebulon]

It's actually a set of 2 boards, both of which are the size of video cards (10cm x 15cm, 3 3/4" x 7").

I'll keep you informed.

Thanks

[nocarrier]

Sorry. I was just excited to see that they were going to be available so soon my fingers were typing faster than my brain.

Im aware there are two. I've read your threads from front to back.

An all in one led/gizmo solution you plug a power supply into and bam. good to go.

Amazing stuff, I literally cant wait. Put me down for the first set! If you want a deposit let me know!

[Aurich]

Man, we really need some kind of centralized resource for these awesome community projects. A one-stop page of some kind where people can put up work like this booster board, the coin door circuit, the pinDMD board, etc. If you're not obsessive about following the forums it's super easy to miss these things, and they're so useful, and the people who put all the work into them deserve recognition and support.

[Nemo]

Man, we really need some kind of centralized resource for these awesome community projects. A one-stop page of some kind where people can put up work like this booster board, the coin door circuit, the pinDMD board, etc.

I second that ! Could a moderator/admin make that possible ?

[zebulon]

The last of the prototype boards arrived this afternoon. Having assembled and tested it I'm pleased to announce that I am now taking orders for the 1st production run.

To answer the all important question:

$300 (CAN) including shipping for the complete system.

System includes:

1 x atx powered - 16 High power output flasher board with resistors (2watt resistors where only 1/4 and 1/2 watt are required for 350ma, 1watt required for 700ma) and flasher led connection sockets

1 x 16 output (12 outputs @ 700ma each, 4 outputs @ 4a each) inductor board including power amplifier for 30v knockers and limit circuit for 24v contactors - all diodes preinstalled - prewired power connections

1 x Shaker Motor speed control board - allows for fine tuning of the supply voltage to your shaker - dial in just the right feeling to personalize your cab

1 x Mounting rack (mounts boards and ledwiz in one unit)

2 x 16 pin ribbon cables (connection cables for ledwiz)

5 x Led flasher connection plugs - accepts 24awg-12awg - wire as many leds as you can fit into one plug

1 x mounting kit for ledwiz and boards

Complete wiring diagrams and support

3 week lead time for 1st run - ready for shipping mid December

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[zebulon]

Size comparison of ledwiz to output boards

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[opcode]

Ok, I have a question on the original High Power boards. I have 2 of these all wired up, when I was testing I had forgot to wire up a diode across my gear motor which was hooked up to my 2nd high power board. I was using the ledblinkey simple led test which let me test out ledwiz output's 1-32. All was well until I was testing using pwm output to my cree leds and I accidentally powered the output to my gear motor (w/ no protection diode) also sending it pwm. At this point the gear motor stuck until I shut the pc down and when I powered back up it was still stuck on.

After unhooking the power from that high power board I unhooked the gear motor and wired everything back up and tried testing again, this time of all the 16 outputs hooked to the possibly fried high power board only 3 would fire. At this point I was convinced I had fried something on the board so decided to replace the cheap otpo's first, short story: they didn't help. Now I was convinced I had fried the power mosfet's so I looked up the part number and ordered 16 of those, tonight I desoldered all 16 and resoldered new ones, short story again: still doesn't work.

Now for debugging I see promise that something at least works, when i cycle through the outputs on the possibly smoked board I see the led blink which gives me hope at least the ledwiz isn't fried. I also have hooked a volt-meter up and would expect when I switch a booster board output to on I would to see that output common to ground, but when I do that I see no ring to ground. Also, peculiarly when I check the voltage between the booster board output that is "on" and ground I see like 12 v (is that normal). On my other working booster board I seem to also see ~10v so it's probably normal.

I'm about out of things to try now, any tips on what might have happened here, there isn't much else I can replace on the booster board besides the resistors.

[Aurich]

The last of the prototype boards arrived this afternoon. Having assembled and tested it I'm pleased to announce that I am now taking orders for the 1st production run.

To answer the all important question:

You left out the other all important question: how do we order them from you?

[zebulon]

You pm me your paypal address and I send you a paypal invoice.

I guess that part is buried a ways back in the thread. Thanks for asking!!



Opcode check your pm's

Sounds like a blown trace.

[Aurich]

You pm me your paypal address and I send you a paypal invoice.

I guess that part is buried a ways back in the thread. Thanks for asking!!

Excellent, done.

[vulbas]

very very good job

[zebulon]

Started the documentation for the system.

The 1st half can be downloaded here:http://www.4shared.c...structions.html

Edited by zebulon, 26 November 2012 - 04:19 AM.

[Aurich]

Started the documentation for the system.

The 1st half can be downloaded here:http://www.4shared.c...structions.html

Awesome thanks. A possible typo:

Placing the jumper across the Left outer and center pin will select 5VDC operation of your lights.
Placing the jumper across the Left outer and center pin will select 12VDC operation of your lights.

I imagine one of those Lefts should be a Right?

Edited by Aurich, 26 November 2012 - 04:01 AM.