- February 15th, 2023, 4:26 pm#4978887
Noah Voiding, who's selling Keepalive kits on Instagram, has been doing benchmarking with copies of the pack vibration motor.
He found that one motor overheated in 16 hours. Another overheated in 74. He estimates that some motors of this model may overheat in 6-8 hours.
A problem with Keepalive in general is that the pack normally forces a shutdown when the motor overheats but his Keepalive will force the pack back on and could lead to damage or shorts.
He's advising people not to keep rumble on for long durations.
Have you looked into this with the pack or the wand?
And while we're on the subject, does your replacement microcontroller supply the same power to the motor or run it harder or less intensely?
LEDs shouldn't pose much risk of heat or damage being left on continuously but other features might and it might be ideal to have a kill feature.
Just a thought!
Great work!
gpstar wrote: ↑February 15th, 2023, 9:08 am The soldering for the pack begins. The next few days, is to take everything from here:Really impressive work. One thing I brought up in the other Keepalive thread:
and then get it onto the 1/2 breadboard and mounted into the pack.
I have the resistors, transistors and diodes on the board already.
After getting everything else soldered onto it, then I need to figure out trying to mod the Neutrik from a 3pin to a 4pin connector for the hose build. There are probably easier solutions but I will attempt this first before other options.
Noah Voiding, who's selling Keepalive kits on Instagram, has been doing benchmarking with copies of the pack vibration motor.
He found that one motor overheated in 16 hours. Another overheated in 74. He estimates that some motors of this model may overheat in 6-8 hours.
A problem with Keepalive in general is that the pack normally forces a shutdown when the motor overheats but his Keepalive will force the pack back on and could lead to damage or shorts.
He's advising people not to keep rumble on for long durations.
Have you looked into this with the pack or the wand?
And while we're on the subject, does your replacement microcontroller supply the same power to the motor or run it harder or less intensely?
LEDs shouldn't pose much risk of heat or damage being left on continuously but other features might and it might be ideal to have a kill feature.
Just a thought!
Great work!