Fallingwater
Flashlight Enthusiast
Browsing DX I found this fully regulated driver. Only problem it has are the modes; five are too many for me, especially with strobe and sos.
Looking at the pictures, I see that the board has a microcontroller on the underside that probably takes care of the modes via PWM.
The pictures aren't detailed enough to make out all the lettering, but from what I've been able to read and from the general shape of the writings it seems that it's more or less the same thing as the microcontroller in this buck-only two-mode driver.
This got me wondering... I don't have nearly enough knowledge in the field of microcontrollers to modify the programming myself, and even if I did I don't have the tools to program whatever kind of uC that is.
But what if I unsoldered the uC from the fully regulated board and swapped it with the one from the buck-only one? Since the uC only does PWM dimming, would this not give me a fully regulated two-mode board? (and a five-mode buck-only board if I bothered doing the swap on the other one as well)
Looking at the pictures, I see that the board has a microcontroller on the underside that probably takes care of the modes via PWM.
The pictures aren't detailed enough to make out all the lettering, but from what I've been able to read and from the general shape of the writings it seems that it's more or less the same thing as the microcontroller in this buck-only two-mode driver.
This got me wondering... I don't have nearly enough knowledge in the field of microcontrollers to modify the programming myself, and even if I did I don't have the tools to program whatever kind of uC that is.
But what if I unsoldered the uC from the fully regulated board and swapped it with the one from the buck-only one? Since the uC only does PWM dimming, would this not give me a fully regulated two-mode board? (and a five-mode buck-only board if I bothered doing the swap on the other one as well)