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Got my circuit boards today. Express PCB made them for me. They turned them out in 5 days and they look great. Hopefully they work! Should be an adventure soldering them.
I briefly considered oven soldering with paste solder but the template to hold the SMDs was another $125 per side. Seemed a bit much. I know I can hand solder 1206 SMDs but these are packed in pretty tight. Might need to get a new tip for the iron. I got two extra boards just in case I ruin some while learning.
The thru-hole LEDs were a conscious decision. The 3mm (2.9 actual) package allows better density in a radial pattern than 1206 SMD with similar individual output when no optics are included. The SMDs are also a lot harder to hand solder without burning them.
Last edited by cggorman; Oct 10, 2019 at 07:03 PM.
FINALLY got around to soldering up the first beta lamp assembly. Quick test of the individual circuits seems to indicate that everything inside the PCB and my soldering job are OK.
Gonna try to get the controller wired to it tonight or tomorrow and will post results and/or video then.
Bottom SMD resistors
Top SMD resistors
Red LEDs inserted (unsoldered)
Yellow LEDs inserted (unsoldered)
Soldered, trimmed, and cleaned.
It uses a single 12v lead and 22 grounds, one for each channel. Between four and six individual LEDs per channel, depending on color and location.
Got the leads all soldered and did a proper test. Found one open at one resistor. Fixed that and all seems good now.
It's really hard to take decent pics of it powered up inside.
Hope to get the controller on it tomorrow.
Size reference.
Spaghetti
Reds bouncing off the ceiling.
Top side, Full power, reds only. Resistors get fairly warm but nothing crazy. May consider a bit of venting for the housing tho. If I were to revise the board, I'd work on distributing the resistors for more even heat but I think it'll be fine.
Bottom side. All the wires are 22ga and only half are powered up here, so I think the heat in them is conducted from the board.
Back side. 4 layer copper board seems to conduct the heat away pretty good.
Last edited by cggorman; Dec 22, 2019 at 01:10 AM.
Controller is wired up temporarily. Need to tidy and condense down the wiring but that's further down the road, once I get the housing ironed out.
This Is a rough and incomplete program with no running lights or start-up/shut-down sequence yet. Also still have some fine tuning of the brake and turn. The yellow sorta "pinwheel" sequence is just a quick test program that has no real application.
Final installation will also include a side-firing dual-color LED bar integrated into the signal housing for drivers at extreme off-angles such as adjacent lanes or intersections.
The exposure on the camera is dialed way down so the LEDs don't blow out the picture too bad. The room lights are actually on.
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