The real shame here is members like Sr_Lawence who come begging for touch switch ideas. Gracious members like Scubabatdan and cybervex pitch in with ideas and parts lists. Scubabatdan designs schematics and PCB layouts. Not once did Sr_Lawrence contribute or add any insight or try to give back to the community. He just disappears and later shows up selling his over-priced Home Depot sourced mod.
Contrast that to member Nuck and his variable volt creation,
Fist Packs by Nuck.
A highly regarded MOD that has gone through various revisions (and many testers) before being offered for sale. If the price seems high he has provided one of the most complete and detailed guides I've ever seen to build your own.
Cisco too with his Lazer pointer MOD and excellent guide.
A Google search will also find forums where Nuck answers questions and gives further tips and insight.
I'm sorry you feel this way. If you go back to the thread about touch switches, I contributed as much as I possibly could. I put on drawings, and posted schematics I came up with as well. During that time period, I asked some members who had touch switch mods for sale for their help and insight, and I was told it was "proprietary" and could not be shared with me. I was also told that if I had ordered one, that I was wasting my time since they were sealed in epoxy.
When I was making mods with push button switches, I shared everything with everyone... going to the extent of making 2 YouTube videos about how to "exactly" make these mods.
After I got an overwhelming response to my "Home Depot" mods, asking for me to sell them, I was told I needed to be a registered supplier. So, I went through that whole process. Then I was told about the new safety features that needed to be on mods that were sold through this forum. So, I decided to change my whole way of thinking. I took a mod that people told me they liked and recreated it. I put many more safety designs into it than was asked for by the forum. I went and employed people who helped me design a completely new and improved touch switch, one that wouldn't go off in your pocket... one that wouldn't go off if the button gets wet.
I have "held the hands" of people wanting to build a regulated mod by emailing all my my info to them. I think I have done my share for the forum, and still am giving back by offering reduced price mini contests, and give away contests. I still spend a great part of my day sharing my thoughts and ideas to people who email me online.
Now, if you don't like my "Home Depot" mod, that's fine... I never asked for you to buy one. I never expected The Saber Touch to take off like it did. I only wanted to make a safer mod that you didn't have to replace a switch all the time like I was doing with some of the commercially made mods that I had purchased.
The drawings on this post are the ones that I had to start with as well, realizing that they would not work for my application. So, I needed to redesign it from the start.
So, please don't put me down for making a couple of dollars on a design that is totally mine and took months to work on with pros that are in the business of electrical design. When I had asked the other suppliers for their help, I was downright refused. But now I'm being put down for something that I had created from scratch. I still offer as much help as I can to modders that ask for my help. But, I still don't see the suppliers that sell their mods with touch switches posting there exact schematics for which they sell. The only reason I haven't contributed to this thread is that it is just a repeat of the thread I started months ago.
I'm sorry for the tone of this post, but it does make me really upset to think that some members feel that I have not contributed my thoughts and ideas to the members, even after all the posts I've made, instructional videos I've put out there showing exactly how to build regulated mods. I just don't get it.
Sorry if I have offended anyone.
