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I would offer, but I don't have a testload for those kinds of current
Why not make it open source?
Finally reflowed and tested a working 14.5 x 14.5 mm buck driver that is adjustable from 600 mA to 10 A.
Anyone up for scoping it?
Probably won't be open source though.
:drool: Wow. Just wow. From a little over 1/2 an amp to 10 A. That's phenomenal . Beautiful drive. Great job ! :bowdown:
It has been really expensive to develop, and the sum total of donations that have come in on all the drivers that have been open sourced is $0. That's okay. I've never pushed for donations, but at the same time, there's a very real hard cost to developing this stuff, and I had a minor heart attack when I looked at the total cost of my digikey orders this year. Small weekend vacation territory.
I also love Lazeerer's buck drivers, and have no desire to put something out there that makes it more difficult for him to cover his costs of pushing driver innovation forward. He's actually actively developing new drivers, so it's not a stale market.
When it was just Lava, reselling stale drivers at huge markup, and not innovating anything new, it was important to antiquate his drivers and force some movement. I just don't see that same scenario with buck drivers.
Oh no. Tell me you didn't. There are certain expenses that should never be monitored, tracked or looked at again. Electronics and Tools fall under the "Black Hole" category. That money never existed. So it can't be missing.I had a minor heart attack when I looked at the total cost of my digikey orders this year.
I don't have/don't trust Bitcoin. Otherwise,
there would defiiently be something since
someone is already contacting me about one
of the drivers I put together.
Hmmm, maybe that's the deal. I sort of assumed that everyone nerdy had some bitcoin.
I'm really not complaining here. It's not an issue. Someone asked though, so I explained. But it's not a major issue that bothers me or anything like that.
I just looked at my digikey costs, and had a bit of sense knocked into me, that's all
PS. It's not entirely true that there have been zero donations. I did receive a wonderful 18650 charger that I am very very grateful for (and no joke, has saved me hours of my life by letting me conveniently discharge test 4x cells at a time, instead of 1 at a time, awkwardly, with a hobby charger).
Lol. I'm sure I could send you some sort of appropriate test load if you were up for testing it.
Sure
I just checked and my diodes are rated for 5A - but you probably want the full 10A range tested?