Here is a quik vid thrown together when I first toyed around with the benboost.
I was in a rush trying to get other things done so nothing is really ideal.:shhh:
Here is another vid this time hooked to a A140:beer:
I later ran this driver with the same diode at 4.5V/2.1A and did a loop of thermal paste around the bottom parameter of the driver attached to the aluminum stock and the DDM read 1.125A and climbed over some time 2-3 minutes (yea it was warm) to a 1.295A and stayed there for at least 5 min run time... soo my conclusion is it will prove stable at the high end only with massive cooling effort.
Now it might be the PERFECT 12x 405nm driver for the money, but for custom 445nm as we know it, thats up to you:beer:. Paralleling 2 of them to get that niche 1.8 or even 2.0A or above:evil: will work only in a larger host with the foremost concern in the pre-build phases for cooling. So what you have to ask yourself is the extra .400mA worth all the heat and loss of space, I believe the builder will have to decide and the more options the better. That being said if they stayed in the $10.00 range:bowdown: thats great for us:beer: I just hope they prove to be more abundant than the elusive flexdrive:undecided:. I agree that you don't always have to run the 445s to the max, in that case
use the ben driver it works great under 1A with obvious needed heatsinking (some on the IC chip some for the entire driver) this will negate smaller builds, but as hobbist these are the things that we do... push the imagination... this driver is another great tool for such purposes.:wave:
I would like to thank those members who made this come to fruitition all the hard work and brilliant brainstorming is very appreciated.:thanks:
