Couldn't sleep last night so I put this together - Benboost Tester!

[cilegray]

Here's the prelude. I bought 100 pieces of Benboost PCB off of Mohgasm, and now that I am going to assemble them and quite possibly sell off some of them (given I get the green light from ben), I wanted to have a quick and easy way to individually test every unit produced.

And so, this ugly thing was born.

Basically a test load with a momentary switch that connects 2 parallel 14500s to the driver, which is quick mounted on pins.

Sorry for the shakiness, I am in no way a Cameraman... and trying to film AND see what I was doing... Impossible.

 

[lasersbee]

:gj:

That's great for anyone testing a large bunch of those Drivers.
Just make sure the output Load connections to the PCB are solid..

Jerry

 

[cilegray]

Yeah that was the biggest of my worry because the rev of the boards I currently have (and will be getting) doesn't have the OVP diode.

I just tinned the pins enough that they were a tight fit in the holes. Upon first fire-up I thought I had a first casualty...multimeter read .000 but it turns out the battery + terminal wasnt making contact with the modified AA holder

 

[AnthoT]

Wow that's really cool :beer: nice work on it, trust me itll be very usefull

-Anthony

 

[Fiddy]

nice job man! you could easily put a panel voltmeter on their too!

 

[cilegray]

nice job man! you could easily put a panel voltmeter on their too!

Yup, if I had the parts laying around it would have been on there ^^