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    My only request for the V5 so far is for it to continue to have through-hole barrels for as many of the pads as possible. Those help immensely.
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    [QUOTE=Donnovan Sunrider;159590]My only request for the V5 so far is for it to continue to have through-hole barrels for as many of the pads as possible. Those help immensely.[/QUOTE

    I agree! lol idk on new features for v5 personally idk how it can get any better than how it is now! haha

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    Dumb newb question... what's a "PE"?

    As in "If you need the feature, you'll need to wire up external PEs somewhere in the hilt."

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    PE = Power Extenders..

    little pcb's/boards that Erv sells as well..

    I got mine from his site(I thought)..but I dont see them currently..

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    Mmm.... on that note (about the power extenders)... although I ~think~ Erv is going to do something with V5 that will sort of "merge" that into the main board (not sure on that)...

    ...IF the power extenders remain, my only request is that they allow for driving more current. I believe the current ones are something akin to ~350mA (not sure)... and so more like ~1A would be nice.

    ALTHOUGH... (duh)... if the clash/flash option is made to be on the v5... AND it then has parameters and so forth--I don't suppose this is all that relevant, heheh.
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    Ahhh, yes.. I know what those are.. just wasn't making the leap from the acronym to the device.

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    From what i heard from Erv', those PE's can take 2A....
    I think....

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    Quote Originally Posted by mihunai View Post
    From what i heard from Erv', those PE's can take 2A....
    I think....

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    Yeah, they were a direct tap to the power and amped the PWM from those outputs. I wasn't aware of a limit, but I'm not surprised as it's probably the practical limit of the components.
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    Actually... you guys might be right! I *thought* Erv told me not to feed much more that 350mA or whatever through... but Yoda (Michael) told me otherwise, along with a few others...

    Anyhow... I think you can indeed spit out quite a bit of current... at least 1.2 or 1.3A as far as Goodman says...

    So... yeah... my whole "not sure" comment was definitely important there!! What I really should do is meter what is going through there... but... I've been so busy teaching classes with the sabers and maintaining them all--it's been tough to get "playtime" + experiment time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by erv View Post
    actually I was thinking about 7 like my PLI
    It's BTW called a 7 segment display. Indeed, the blinking "pattern" when idle can be a combination of all segments. As for the dot of such a display, it can still be wired as a luxeon mirroring accent LED.
    Also, why not, even if a bit overkill, I was thinking of adding an iddle.txt then, to define what the accent leds pads would do during idle. Another sequencer for the idle mode. Like random, step sequencer, or ask the accent led to display the PLI when idle.
    so led.txt : normal accent led seq
    alt.txt : lockup led seq (like the alternate seq of my chestbox core)
    idle.txt : led seq during idle, plus other possible parameters.
    There is something i would like to add to this.
    Would it be possible to run a different animation during activation and shutdown?

    So you could have it scroll up, down from the center or one side etc...

    Another (perhaps trivial) idea is to have the blinkies dimmable.
    So at night you can use a more dimmed font, so they dont blind you, and during brighter parts of the day a brighter font, so you can see them at all.

    just spitballing here.

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