💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter
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@mtiutiu said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
Hi,thanks you for your feedback ;)
Whatever the distance, i try to place all the time a ceramic resonator just for debug. Indeed, i have already brick my atmega with wrongs fuses and i had to add a resonator for change them again.
I did that on other project even if i use the 8Mhz internal oscillator.
For the distance, i didn't now the limit with 8Mhz.
I was thinking i have placed the caps for MCU like your project, isn't it ?
I didn't know the problem of the big tantalum capacitor (Is 100nF big ?) I'll place a 100nF ceramic capacitor in parrallel of the tantalum capacitor in a next rev.I have tried kicad but when i have printed the PCB it was blurrier than the same maked with eagle. I was afraid with that, that's why i continu with eagle for the moment.
I'am glad that you looked this pcb, a big thx again.
Edit : on the linovo pcb, why they don't put a ceramic capacitors near the tantalum capacitor ?
I wasn't referring to the 100nF ones which are ceramic type usually. If I remember well I saw some 10uF or 100uF in parallel in your schematic (the polarized capacitors) so I was assuming that you use tantalum ones.
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I wasn't referring to the 100nF ones which are ceramic type usually. If I remember well I saw some 10uF or 100uF in parallel in your schematic (the polarized capacitors) so I was assuming that you use tantalum ones.
@mtiutiu said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
Oh sry, i read the wrong value, and now i'm agree 100u is big ;) -
So how's the testing going? I'm thinking to try to have seeed to print and assemble the pcb for me as I hate to even think about soldering all of these smd parts manually :)
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So how's the testing going? I'm thinking to try to have seeed to print and assemble the pcb for me as I hate to even think about soldering all of these smd parts manually :)
Just finished the new version of the board, I'll check it again tomorrow and send it to Seeed to get the PCB.
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Just finished the new version of the board, I'll check it again tomorrow and send it to Seeed to get the PCB.
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@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
@Nca78 - Great! Do you believe the new version has all of the issues fixed?
Else I wouldn't say it's "finished" ;) (but be careful it's not online yet...)
Did all items in the "todo list" on openhardware.io page, I just had a problem with the holes to put the plastic circles as I had too many wires going to the radio, so it won't be possible to use those from the Livolo switch. They are not absolutely necessary but I will make a 3D printed "separator" to block the light between the different switches.I also added more extra leds to the center button, there are 4 extra leds now in case you want to use center button for mode/scene selector.
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@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
@Nca78 - Great! Do you believe the new version has all of the issues fixed?
Else I wouldn't say it's "finished" ;) (but be careful it's not online yet...)
Did all items in the "todo list" on openhardware.io page, I just had a problem with the holes to put the plastic circles as I had too many wires going to the radio, so it won't be possible to use those from the Livolo switch. They are not absolutely necessary but I will make a 3D printed "separator" to block the light between the different switches.I also added more extra leds to the center button, there are 4 extra leds now in case you want to use center button for mode/scene selector.
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@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
@Nca78 - makes sense :) When are you going to upload the gerber files?
When I can confirm all problems are solved :P
Should not be too long I will send to Seeed tomorrow or Friday and use Fedex or DHL, their prototype PCB price is so insanely low now (4.9$ for up to 10*10cm) that from the 2nd PCB it's cheaper with them using DHL than with DirtyPCB :o -
I just posted new design files and gerber files (but please don't order now, I will receive PCBs only on Friday and then I need a few days before I can test them...
I also put a bit of documentation but it still needs (a lot of) improvements :)
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I just posted new design files and gerber files (but please don't order now, I will receive PCBs only on Friday and then I need a few days before I can test them...
I also put a bit of documentation but it still needs (a lot of) improvements :)
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@Nca78 - Thanks for the update! Looks like shipping takes a lot of time even with the DHL delivery. Will be waiting for you to test and give us green light to order the PCBs :)
@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
@Nca78 - Thanks for the update! Looks like shipping takes a lot of time even with the DHL delivery. Will be waiting for you to test and give us green light to order the PCBs :)
I took a lot of time to finish all my other PCBs before sending to Seeed.
Then they didn't like my panelized boards (they changed rules but didn't update their website) so I lost over a day to repost.
Then they packed the boards at the end of last week just in time to go on holidays and DHL picked them up only yesterday :( -
And now blocked at customs and I have to deal with the insane local DHL customer service again...
Last time I waste my money with DHL :angry: -
And now blocked at customs and I have to deal with the insane local DHL customer service again...
Last time I waste my money with DHL :angry: -
And now blocked at customs and I have to deal with the insane local DHL customer service again...
Last time I waste my money with DHL :angry:Oh man...I wanted things to come faster at my door like you did and in the end I had to pay 6 times!!! the price of the boards because of the customs, DHL fees and so on. But I learned from that and I'll NEVER EVER AGAIN go that way. That's just crazy.
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Oh man...I wanted things to come faster at my door like you did and in the end I had to pay 6 times!!! the price of the boards because of the customs, DHL fees and so on. But I learned from that and I'll NEVER EVER AGAIN go that way. That's just crazy.
@mtiutiu said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
Oh man...I wanted things to come faster at my door like you did and in the end I had to pay 6 times!!! the price of the boards because of the customs, DHL fees and so on. But I learned from that and I'll NEVER EVER AGAIN go that way. That's just crazy.
I had many PCBs to order so it didn't reach those proportions: 39$ for PCBs, 30$ for shipping.
Then 8$ of DHL fee and 8$ of VAT.
That's too much shipment and customs fees for the time it took to get my order (over 2 weeks)@achurak1 last time I ordered with HK Post and I had an endless wait without tracking, over 1 month, so I decided to never use it again.
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@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
@Nca78 - makes sense :) When are you going to upload the gerber files?
Soldered a few components today, I will try to finish and start testing before the end of the week.
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@achurak1 said in 💬 Livolo 3 buttons US/AU switch adapter:
@Nca78 - makes sense :) When are you going to upload the gerber files?
Soldered a few components today, I will try to finish and start testing before the end of the week.
