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"Magic" Driver, and Driver Add-On - Teaser

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I've historically been resistant to "reverse polarity protection" in my builds and drivers. In fact, on occasion I've even come off a little intense on the subject - perhaps even a bit stubborn, with comments like "I don't have any trouble following battery directions, why would anyone else?". I just plainly have never really understood why people would put batteries in backwards.

But - Pretty much everyone disagrees with me. The community overwhelmingly prefers polarity protection.

So, alas, I caved. However, if I was going to bow to peer pressure, I decided that I wasn't content to just adopt the status quo. I wanted to take it a step further, and put something extra cool into these drivers. This is something unique that I haven't seen before. Check out the video below. Screw polarity "protection" ;)

New - YouTube
 
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That's what I call doin' it right.
Would that be a simple full wave bridge rectifier on those inputs by chance ?
 
jimdt7 said:
:drool: :drool: :drool:
How is this happening ?

Jim
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A combination of new driver design, and different built approach, and magic. Aaaaah, don't quiz me on it. Let me keep the magic alive :)

ShortyInCanada said:
That's what I call doin' it right.
Would that be a simple full wave bridge rectifier on those inputs by chance ?
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I said no quizzing. ;p

But nope.
 
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Diodes.
Arranged in some form of magical bridge arrangement :)
Or some other magical form of semi conductor junction.
 
Oooooooooooo.....
Magic ?!
I should have known.
But in my own defense, I haven't been around here a lot lately and your build competence had slipped my mind.

I stand, or rather sit, corrected.

:p
 
That's awesome!

I love the grainy 'underground anarchist' look to the video too, just adds to the 'magic' in the air.

Lase
 
Well their is magic smoke in them their parts so he not lying :crackup:
 
If it is made with diodes, he would have 2 diodes dropping voltage. Even with schottkys this would mean 0.8V lost, with normal diodes even 1.4V+. At 1.8 Amps thats a lot of power just for polarity protection...

There are other little mechanical tricks or circuits to get a result like that, but I don't get any idea which would work with normal unmodified batteries as well as fit a laser host...
 
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Its Witchcraft I tell ye' WITCHCRAFT!!


Or a bridge rectifier .
 
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