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Mangling a CPU Power Supply for Powering the Charging Station
02/18/2019 at 00:36 • 0 commentsBeen spending some time mangling a CPU power supply to provide the 5 Volts to supply the TP 4056s. Added a switch and an LED, waiting on 10 watt 5K resistors, found a source for $0.26 each only got 5 for now, hopefully be here fairly quickly since they are not on the transpacific boat.
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Making Circuit Runs in MDF
02/18/2019 at 00:32 • 0 commentsWell took the time today to gouge I mean route some runs for the wire to be embedded in the bottom side of the tray that will contain the battery holders and TP 4056 sub assemblies. I've done worse when manually moving wood under a drill press.... course if I finish my CNC thing I can just use that. 8 )
In the picture showing the top side of the Charging Tray, The board at the top of the pic needs to be reworked. It has fuses and fuse solder-able fuse connectors which I was going to use to connect the wries from this board to the TP 4056s. Since I changed my mind about how I am going to run the wires and embed them in the mdf like the bottom layer of a circuit board I can remove the connectors for the ground wires and I have to move the fuses to the side of the board where the pivot hole is located. Which means a complete new layout for this board.
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Drawing up the Basic Concept
02/09/2019 at 22:02 • 0 commentsThis is just a quick video showing the layout and mechanical drawing in progress. As I drew it up. I will be using a CPU power supply at the bottom level of the tower/station.