On last week I played with coils, and played a lot
Now I have 18 coils, all what's needed to complete one modular electromagnet:
As I'm too lazy to wind them by hands, I had some extreme prototyping experience ->
Yeah, it's winding machine made from a building kit! Works surprisingly well!
I would design something more reliable later, of course, )
Since I have some troubles with accessing 3d printer and drilling machine for now, I haven't completed modular electromagnet yet, however I fixed problem with transistor's opening!

Also, there is additional transistor Q2 - while opened, R8 and R7 work like voltage divider and voltage on IR2117 "IN" pin is close to +0.4V (R7/R8 * +15V), then Q2 closed, we have +15V there.
IR2117 has different logic levels:
- low 0-6V
- high 9.5V-20V
So it's necessary to convert 0-5V output from TTL's to an appropriate level, that's why Q2 is needed.
I think, tracing PCB's with MOSFET controllers only is OK for test purposes, so new revision of control circuit's PCB would be later, I don't want to waste time waiting for a delivery. And I want to go camping next week, so modular electromagnets experiment results release is going to be delayed )
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