• Hardware updates

    Chloe Madison • 09/07/2023 at 23:07 • 0 comments

    The FLIP_C3 is going into production while the PwrTool 500 hardware is being evaluated. I will be making a new project page for the FLIP_C3 in the coming weeks while we wait for parts to arrive at JLC and for production to happen. Current estimate is early October but with luck could be sooner. Pre-orders are open on www.vdbx.io 

    PwrTool 500 had a major hardware change due to a misreading of the datasheet for the MAX961x which has an ESPHome component written for it. After some research and talking to a friend who could write the code, I decided to switch to the INA237.  We are working towards finalizing the software with pre-production hardware, but she is very busy with work and other life stuff so it's been taking some time. 

    At the moment, I have numbers from the sensor that make sense but they are very noisy and could be more accurate than they are. There are on-board ADC functions to modify conversion time and multi-reading averaging which can help with noise. Our next step is to implement the configuration for the ADC features which will hopefully be done in the next few weeks. I truly appreciate Izzy's help with this project as I am finding that I am very much a hardware only girl. 

    If you're interested in helping out, I do have pre-production hardware on www.vdbx.io - and the in process ESPHome component is available on github.com/vdbxio/ina237