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Hey everyone.
Got a second FlexDrive (I gotta admit, it's a beautiful little driver...) for my 445 build, and, after setting it to max current and thermally bonding it to the brass pill (I figure that, because so much area is in contact, it should be fine heat sinking), I got some weird results.
First and foremost - it wouldn't even come close to hitting 1.5A of output current. The highest it would go is about 1.36A, and then it would drop to about 500mA (the bottom of that setting) with any more turns of the pot.
Secondly, it dropped in out current as I tested it almost instantly - that is, it started at about 1.36A, then after about 2 seconds, it started to drop about 5mA per second. Is this just a result of overheating? I would have thought that thermally bonding it to the pill would have pretty much solved that issue.
Seems I got a FlexDrive that wasn't top notch - oh well, not a huge deal. Should still give me easily 1W of output power with an Aixiz lens.
Got a second FlexDrive (I gotta admit, it's a beautiful little driver...) for my 445 build, and, after setting it to max current and thermally bonding it to the brass pill (I figure that, because so much area is in contact, it should be fine heat sinking), I got some weird results.
First and foremost - it wouldn't even come close to hitting 1.5A of output current. The highest it would go is about 1.36A, and then it would drop to about 500mA (the bottom of that setting) with any more turns of the pot.
Secondly, it dropped in out current as I tested it almost instantly - that is, it started at about 1.36A, then after about 2 seconds, it started to drop about 5mA per second. Is this just a result of overheating? I would have thought that thermally bonding it to the pill would have pretty much solved that issue.
Seems I got a FlexDrive that wasn't top notch - oh well, not a huge deal. Should still give me easily 1W of output power with an Aixiz lens.