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Madness

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Posted: 09:15pm 21 Mar 2018

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That's more interest than I expected, so we are over 20 now so Power Boards are $25 control boards $10 plus postage from me at 4556 QLD Australia.

A pair of boards weighs 310 grams up to 3 sets would be $15 (1KG) for more 3 KG is $17 for express post within Australia.

Also what colour do you guys want, I have got red before as below but you can have Green, Red. Yellow, Blue, Black or Purple with white or black silkscreen. Once ordered from China they take about 1 week to arrive in my hands, but I need to redo the control board with the latest mods first. It would be good to add low voltage shut down to the control board if anyone has any suggestions.

Please note this is the previous version of the PCB I have deleted the mounting holes across the centre near the caps, added 20K resistors across GATE - SOURCE on the MOSFETs and Totem pole Transistors, plus a few other little tweaks to the tracks and solder mask.Edited by Madness 2018-03-23

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renewableMark

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Posted: 09:30pm 21 Mar 2018

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Ripper.
I don't care what colour they are.
Do you drill the holes for heatsinks yourself?

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Madness

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Posted: 10:07pm 21 Mar 2018

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I don't have any holes for heatsinks, they mount directly to the MOSFETs. I have had need or reason to screw the heatsinks to the PCB. I screw a sheet of perpex to the top of the heatsinks, this keeps them ridgid and provides a place to mount the control board.

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Mulver
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Posted: 10:57pm 21 Mar 2018

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I'm not fussed on colour either!

I'm also more than happy to pay extra for your efforts! Edited by Mulver 2018-03-23

johnmc
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Posted: 03:12am 22 Mar 2018

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Do not care about colour either.
When and how will we pay?
Cheers john

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Posted: 04:06am 22 Mar 2018

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johnmc said When and how will we pay?

Madness said Once I have the numbers then I would prefer payment before ordering via Paypal. If I rip you off (which I won't) paypal will refund you.

Edited by Mulver 2018-03-23

renewableMark

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Posted: 04:39am 22 Mar 2018

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Mad, if no mounting is needed to the board, fine! One less bloody thing to worry about, sounds good to me.

All we need is the email to send you a Paypal payment, probably use our login name for reference? You'll need to keep track of who has and hasn't paid.

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Posted: 05:56am 22 Mar 2018

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I would prefer black board with with white screen; but happy with what ever

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Madness

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Posted: 06:44am 22 Mar 2018

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I will contact everyone about payment details when it is a bit closer to ordering, first I need redo the control board.

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Madness

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Posted: 07:01am 22 Mar 2018

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renewableMark said Mad, if no mounting is needed to the board, fine! One less bloody thing to worry about, sounds good to me.

All we need is the email to send you a Paypal payment, probably use our login name for reference? You'll need to keep track of who has and hasn't paid.

When it gets to that stage I will be ordering boards for those that have paid, I don't want to end up with a pile of boards out of this.

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Ralph2k6

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Posted: 09:51pm 23 Mar 2018

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Put me in for 2 of each please madness
(2 control, 2 power board)

I'm just outside of yatala if you need me to post up more packaging etc to protect these boards for splitting out the delivery.Edited by Ralph2k6 2018-03-25

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Posted: 10:15pm 23 Mar 2018

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That's 26 now, I will look at padded post bags, the boards themselves are pretty strong. I am about 130 Km north of you Ralph, cost of posting wrapping is probably than buying it, Auspost has gotten over the top these days, I don't know if any of the courier companies would be any cheaper.

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Posted: 06:53am 24 Mar 2018

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How's the GTI charge controller board going Madness, stable enough for a production run?

Madness

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Posted: 10:07am 24 Mar 2018

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Yes I was thinking about that, actually, the GTI regulator is running really well since I divided the Drains for the 2 MPPT Channels. All need to do is split the pads on the PCB, very simple fix. Anyone other interested? $8 a piece.

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renewableMark

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Posted: 10:24am 24 Mar 2018

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Not sure if I want to go that way yet but for $8 I'll take one just in case.
What about cooling circuit boards?

We'll have to start calling you "board man"Edited by renewableMark 2018-03-25

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ryanm
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Posted: 10:40am 24 Mar 2018

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I'll be up for a half dozen or so.

Mulver
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Posted: 11:38am 24 Mar 2018

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Yes please for the gti regulator. I'll have 4 if possible.

Madness

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Posted: 11:44am 24 Mar 2018

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Bored maybe.

I have been working on reducing the size of the 2 channel fan controller to 50 X 50mm so 4 will fit on one 100mm square PCB.

renewableMark said Not sure if I want to go that way yet but for $8 I'll take one just in case.
What about cooling circuit boards?

We'll have to start calling you "board man"

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Posted: 12:46pm 24 Mar 2018

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I will take 6 GTI charge controller board,s

cheers john

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renewableMark

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Posted: 09:00pm 24 Mar 2018

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Madness said Bored maybe.

Try one of these

or these

Cheers Caveman Mark
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