Hi ! I don't know if it's the right place for that... not cutting edge technology, not really new neither but...
I'm just finishing a single LED PLI. It follows a general idea that a hilt is often crowded and it's not so easy to implement a PLI with 7 or even 10 LEDs with simple tools while a little bezel (3 or 5 mm) is just as easy as drilling a hole in the hilt with a drilling machine.
I've therefore ported my PLI design, with the low and high treshold setup and memorization on a tiny board (22x17mm) using a bicolor LED (red and green, plus yellow/orange when activating both).
Using a smart combination of static color / blinking colors, I display 6 different steps on the scale of the PLI.
- green static (fully charged)
- green + little flash
- orange static
- orange + little flash
- red static
- red flashing fast (time to recharge).
simplified setup for the threholds, but I still have to work on that to properly separate the setup of the hi and low tresholds, for users that don't have access to a lab PSU (maybe I'll stay with the current procedure of my 7 led PLI).
Like the 7 LED PLI, it has a remote wire so that you can activate it from a crystal focus, but it can be also powered by a momentary button in serie with the + lead. Pressing the button powers the module, gives out the power level, releasing the button totally cuts the power of the module.
I'll soon propose this a a product, I think, and I'll be glad to share your thoughts about that !
Erv'
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