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Old 05-12-2020, 04:30 PM   #133 (permalink)
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Moar building stuff!

Okay, so its basically done. I got the front panel printed out (10 hours), and it again fits really nicely.









Beefy wires soldered up.







Then disaster struck! As I was assembling it, I started seeing smoke come off of two of the dc-dc charging boards. I had no idea what was going on. Finally, I found out the ac power supplies had popped out of their grooves and were touching. I got that fixed and it seems to still work... but we'll see how long it lasts I guess. As long as the top cover is bolted on, this will not happen again as it holds the two side plates together.





And here it is all buttoned up. I ran out of countersunk screws, but its enough to hold it together for now.





Here we can see that its fairly easy to see the status of the charging. Blue is charging and green is charged.







One little touch was adding feet to it. I wanted rubber, but I had these felt ones on hand...

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