I'm sorry Breaktru - will take care of that right now.
you're just too popular and well loved here mamu. takes a lot to fill up a Supporting member's PM box
I'm sorry Breaktru - will take care of that right now.
you're just too popular and well loved here mamu. takes a lot to fill up a Supporting member's PM box
Very good SiB77.
Your battery and atty wires off the DNA look kinda light.
...Now the question is, should I try and swap the unused one I have for the newer version
I'm exchanging the pilot boards I have with the revised version. Just contact Brandon or support at Evolv and they'll take care of you if you do decide you want to exchange.
I'm sure this is a bit of a buggerboo for Brandon and the team at Evolv, but I'm super impressed with how it's being handled and that the revised version came about rather quickly and is now available to us.
Is this something that is fairly common in the electronics industry? I have to say, I hate returning stuff.
So do I just contact them mamu? Mine still unopened lol
Tried to understand from reading the thread, with not much luck. Is the revised chip capable of achieving 12W, yes or no? I already consider 12 a compromise (would have preferred 15, to be honest) but if it can't even reach a stable 12W, this chip could be a no go for me.
Thanks for helping.
Tried to understand from reading the thread, with not much luck. Is the revised chip capable of achieving 12W, yes or no? I already consider 12 a compromise (would have preferred 15, to be honest) but if it can't even reach a stable 12W, this chip could be a no go for me.
Thanks for helping.
if ya want 15 watts, just stack 2 DNA's (like mamu did)....12 watts is WAY too much for me...
Is there a way to tell the revised boards from the old ones? Or maybe even just a date before which the boards are bound to be the old ones?The issue with the initial DNA board has been fixed, so yes according to Evolv the revised board will do 12 Watts.
Should have the revised board later this week or early next week and will post my test results with it.
Glad to see they've revised them. I suspect they were initially tested in socket with no wiring and met the specs like that. Probably bumped them up a bit to account for resistance in wires or connections.
For my next DNA project, I decided to think outside the *box*. Ya'll like it??
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I keed I keed.
For this DNA project I wanted a case that I could mod and also keep the USB charging/passthrough circuitry. Credits and thanks to dedmonwakin for finding this case and sharing his Fist Pack project with this case and to Nuck for sharing his build of the Fistpack which I transferred some of the knowledge learned with modding this case, especially the slide switch setup, to this DNA build.
I used a 5-position slide switch to deliver 5 preselected Watts levels - 8, 9, 10, 11, and max Watts. The last measurement I did before the final wiring the max Watts was 11.1. So the 11 Watts setting and max Watts setting are essentially the same. The max Watts may change to higher as it seems to fluctuate a bit. Just not sure yet if this board is really capable of delivering much more than 11 Watts.
I set the board to the deliver max Watts it is capable of when the position of the slide switch actuator is all the way up (toward the top of the mod). I did this by putting a jumper across pins 7 and 8 on the DNA board with pin 9 on the board wired to common grnd on the slide switch.
For the 8, 9, 10, and 11 Watts settings, I used resistors on each pin of the slide switch wired inline with pin 8 of the DNA board. Pin 9 was used to wire the common grnd on the slide switch.
I wasn't sure if all the DNA circuitry, wiring, slide switch, resisters, etc would fit in this tiny case, but it did and it's really packed!! Not an unch of space left over. LOLOL!!
I used an 18650 AW IMR 2000mAh batt for this build.
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Size comparison with Merlin...
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