- May 23rd, 2014, 7:29 am#4794312
Wow. Very well done sir! I think this will may be part of my pack build when I finally get going on it!
Carpeteria wrote:First off - this is a really amazing system and idea. Well done to all involved!Great call on the pololu site, I used the 12V relay because I couldn't find a 5V brick rated at more than 1A. Thanks for the post,
I was able to toss together a quick visual layout for the wiring, for those who aren't schematically inclined. This drawing is for use with the Mighty microcontroller, which is what I have in my pack. Your mileage may vary.
If you use this set up, you can get the SPDT relay here:
http://www.pololu.com/product/2480
and from the same site, you can get the servo cable here:
http://www.pololu.com/product/779
kurisu7885 wrote:I hope we can get one for the GBFans boards ,as that's what I'll be sporting.I know you can do it with a manual switch, I'm just trying to develop something comparable to the Mighty's automatic sync
jimfin wrote:Really hope you find a solution because i'd do it with the new gbfans kit too. Im sure AJ said the autovent feature may be included on this set of soundboardskurisu7885 wrote:I hope we can get one for the GBFans boards ,as that's what I'll be sporting.I know you can do it with a manual switch, I'm just trying to develop something comparable to the Mighty's automatic sync
with the sound, Thanks for everybody's support and interest in our project
Carpeteria wrote:First off - this is a really amazing system and idea. Well done to all involved!
I was able to toss together a quick visual layout for the wiring, for those who aren't schematically inclined. This drawing is for use with the Mighty microcontroller, which is what I have in my pack. Your mileage may vary.
If you use this set up, you can get the SPDT relay here:
http://www.pololu.com/product/2480
and from the same site, you can get the servo cable here:
http://www.pololu.com/product/779
Hoot wrote:Im wondering if it could be triggered during the venting without a manual switch by simply tapping into the existing strobe from the kit?Maybe a trigger from all 4 cyclotron lights being lit at the same time (which only happens during the overload sequence)? Timing will be a little off, but it's an option, I guess... My electronics theory is a little rusty right now, but maybe an AND Gate that only switches on when all inputs are active? And maybe a timer that allows it to trigger at the end at the overload sequence? Again, I'm rusty, but it's making sense in my head right about now... =P
Maybe I am wrong but that seems like a possibility?
Hoot wrote:Bump for any updates?Doug is working on a vent relay board that is proposed to sandwich between the present packlight board and cyclotron lights. It should allow the regular lights or TVG lights to be used. I saw a pic of the board and it looks really promising. He said he's going to try to write the code this weekend. Should do exactly what we need so hope everything works out. I made up a crude circuit board that does work from the 5th cyclotron led but his board is a lot more polished and he also informed me that those signal wires are also used tell the TVG leds to change color if you have the TVG kit so I don't really want to mess that up
Libtechinit wrote:First of all thanks to the original poster for providing us with this tutorial. I have seen a lot of venting ideas in the past and its always been something I wanted to add but I wasn't ever that excited about using the upside down air can setup which seemed to be the only real way to go until now. This is also, in my opinion, a far more accurate looking vent effect.Glad to see the interest, those Kanger T2's are available in almost any Vape store as well as the replacement filiment /wicks. We thought of adding a nozzle under the crank knob. The problem, putting an outlet under the bumper, at least on our pack, is clearance with the magnet on the 6X9 speaker. We're looking into maybe extending the cyclotron lights in tubes as well as the bumper, but may wait to do a new pack to do that, also incorporating the new multi-color update for the Mighty.
Anyways, I just ordered up all of the parts to incorporate this into my pack. I'm running one of the Mighty Microcontrollers so it shouldn't be to difficult to add.
Only tweak I am going to make is to figure out a way to vent from underneath the bumper instead of out of the n filter. In my mind the n filter is meant to take in air instead of venting exhaust out. I'm thinking 4 ports, hidden under the bumper, aimed to direct the smoke out right over each cyclotron light. That way the smoke will glow red with the cyclotron lights and I won't need to worry about adding the strobe which will hopefully allow me to run this setup off either the battery that powers the Mighty or the battery that powers the amp in my pack.
I also work in software so I'm going to see if I can modify the Mighty's code a bit to extent the timing of the manual vent affect. In the videos posted it seem way to short when compared to the light and sound effects that coincide with the venting, so we'll see how that goes.
For anyone new looking to add this feature, the cartomizer is out of stock at the site provided on the main page, so I went to this site to purchase the same one: http://vaporcrave.com/1-eGo-Changeable- ... -p158.html
Also for the mini air pump, I purchased a slightly different one from here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/DC-6V-Miniature ... 27ddcb2339
I went this way with the air pump mainly because this one ships from the US and has free shipping so you don't have to wait an unknown amount of time to receive something from China or Hong Kong. Also the inflation time on this unit is about 5 seconds quicker, my thought is that the vent effects aren't really activated for that long, so the more air generated in the shortest amount of time the better. The quicker inflate time does come with a minor downside of the unit being 3 dB louder. All other stats are exactly the same between the two units.
I'll have to add a video of what I end up with after I get it all thrown together.
Thanks again for the great info!
Sephiroth wrote:I'm looking forward to seeing this being integrated into more packs and in different and new ways. My father and I designed it to work around the way my pack is set up and make use of the available internal spaces inherent to the shell, but like my dad said, you're only limited by your imagination.Our thinking in the absence of smoke in the original packs during venting, that the N filter may indeed allow fresh filtered air into the cyclotron but in the event of overload/overheat it would serve as a check valve to release the pressure in the opposite direction. It's our idea of what the engineers might have come up with if so inclined. All I know for sure is how much I like the smile on my son's face every time he uses the effect
Hoot wrote:What about the stock cyclotron kit?That's what i meant by the regular light kit, I think something's messed up in my programming on the stock cyclotron lights, they were working great for about a week, then the vent led on the stock cyclotron cable quit. led tests good, and oddly enough is constantly lit if negative side of led is grounded to sound board ground. fully expected TVG board and relay not to work since they use the same output connector on the pack light board, but happily they work perfectly in regular or TVG mode
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