Just wanted to drop this by here. My personal SBJR in Black Limba - zapped it today to add some futurama love. Don't know why I still can't add pics, but here's a link to the work! Enjoy!
I'm on FC, usually in the VapCap IH dev threads. I also do quite a bit of anodization with Dynavap's line of titanium hardware. I'm a nerd's nerd, a multidisciplinary scientist of sorts, and have a strong desire to curate the rare and exotic, the performant, and the artisan crafted high end...
Hi all, relatively new member here, but experienced maker and science nut. Relatively new to *quality* vaporization, but experienced cannabis connoisseur and long-time traveler. Looking forward to helping the community design the next generation of vape hardware (and software too).
A few areas...
Well freakin' done, my man. I love the "poor man's inlay" hahahahaha! Poor nothing, that's smart as shit! Nice trick to have for a single hotend printer and it looks wicked jazzed up!
You're right on point - the trick is getting fast, accurate reads on a vapcap. I haven't even begun to start testing the IR module yet. I'm still working on tooling and some additional setup to do anything useful with it. It will be some time before I have any results worth a damn. I fully...
PID means Proportional Integral Derivative, and is an on-the-fly, inline, algorithmic method for intensity-modeling based on observed and required IO for a closed loop feedback system for more accurate signal cycling. It is the management system behind flight computers, heaters, and many other...
@TommyDee I suggested up to 36v as max value as the board shows this, but I'm not recommending it. The IRF530 vDS is ~100v, and accounting for resonant voltage multiplication, this gives us a nice round target of 25 volts to maintain a somewhat healthy resonance with those fets, at max power...
I still can't attach images to this board for some reason. IDK why. But here's a visual of the other 2 popular ZVS boards compared to our little friend. I picked up one of each to screw around with. They're pretty much the same circuit, just bigger, and with a output for a center-tap work coil...
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This is pretty neat. I'm not doing coil detection, but if he's got a working heat sensor, there's all the proof I need to have confidence my concept will work. I have never liked the idea of pressing my cap in to heat. I can certainly put the switch footprint in...
I would think the coil operation would be hard to differentiate from sensing the DV leaving the coil port, but not sure. There's a lot of activity going on during the drop, as opposed to an idle or unpowered circuit at the start.
This has been suggested, I don't believe anyone has tried it...