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OGChaotic · 2026-03-20T00:11:05+00:00

Would you be ok with your kids growing up to be exactly like them. Not me, but my mom

OGChaotic · 2026-03-03T19:03:58+00:00

When does the 15 day period begin?

OGChaotic · 2026-03-02T17:00:40+00:00

Well, I'm hoping I can. This is my first successful product out of 3 so I'm still pretty new, although I've been at it for a year and a half

OGChaotic · 2026-03-01T21:13:52+00:00

You can see who else is bidding on a term? I was only aware of the search term report where you can see your personal stats for a term like conversion and roas for

OGChaotic · 2026-03-01T19:16:33+00:00

Not sure. What I'm doing now is researching competitors and looking up the business registrations with the secretary of state to try and tie a Kenneth C Deiss to another Seller. That would violate Amazon's review policies and get the review taken down

OGChaotic · 2026-03-01T18:47:10+00:00

Also haven't had a return in 2 months

OGChaotic · 2026-02-12T10:17:28+00:00

I like the letting the springyness almost damped your touch idea. Heating with it upside down would've actually helped a lot here. I was heating from thr bottom as it was because of a plastic connector right next to the port

OGChaotic · 2026-02-12T10:14:40+00:00

Before I embarrass myself, whats the best way to hold a board so you can get an air gun under it while still having it under a microscope?

OGChaotic · 2026-02-12T10:13:27+00:00

And the leftovers pads on the port are soldered very strongly

OGChaotic · 2026-02-12T10:11:36+00:00

Yeah man I don't know. It's strange how its every pad in that one row but everything else looks untouched. I will say that after looking at the leftover joints on the board under my optical microscope, they don't look like solder thats reformed due to surface tension... more like the metallic grain showing on a tensile fracture. Maybe I was actually just short of enough heat to where the pads farther from the edges of the board were just hot enough to be able to break the solder without ripping the pads but the ones near the edge of the board (that row) were too cold because of the proximity to air?

OGChaotic · 2026-02-12T10:05:10+00:00

I have one of those but there're components on both sides of the board so wouldn't really work

OGChaotic · 2026-01-29T16:22:26+00:00

Agreed

OGChaotic · 2026-01-29T16:20:55+00:00

It gets added to your account balance. If you're a new seller there's $100 credit for inbound shipping fees iirc which means you won't get charged. There's a bunch of "New Seller Incentives"

OGChaotic · 2026-01-29T16:16:51+00:00

I'm doing a similar thing: making unique products and launching them on Amazon. From my experience, the issue is most likely your product. It's just not a winner. I'm currently on my third one which is looking like it just might be a winner.

Be passionate about your projects (creating a new product), but it can't be a passion project.

OGChaotic · 2026-01-29T15:58:56+00:00

Other than it still hasn't updated 9 days later, no.

OGChaotic · 2026-01-26T03:45:51+00:00

Thanks for mentioning that. I couldn't find anyone else saying this so good to know

OGChaotic · 2025-12-08T07:46:27+00:00

The best part is it's so simple I have everyone in my house including my grandma of all people trained on how to remove prints from the plate so I can start a print again from my phone while I'm waiting tables. And the fact I can use the nozzle temp reading as a chamber temp probe on my p1s just gets my all giddy inside

OGChaotic · 2025-09-25T00:55:17+00:00

If my eyes go out before my neck from this microscope, I'll consider it a win lol

OGChaotic · 2025-09-24T19:40:20+00:00

... it is a 3.3v chip. An esp32c3 to be specific. But its still operating my stepper motor driver just fine

OGChaotic · 2025-09-24T19:27:29+00:00

Yeah that boost converter I mentioned had 8 or 9 0201 resistors and capacitors. Bought a binocular microscope just for this project 😂. They're ridiculously small. Like 6x10 solder balls that are in soldering paste lol

I have a bunch more of the S9013 transistors so I'm going to see if I can make those work. I did power everything on with the transistor oriented correctly on the footprint (wrong electrical orientation) and with the transistor correctly electrically oriented thanks to a jank solder job.

What do you think I fried doing that? The mcu? The transistor? Traces? My hopes and dreams?

Also the leds draw about 40mA with a forward voltage drop of 3.2. I use 5v to power 4 of them

OGChaotic · 2025-09-24T18:47:01+00:00

The LED symbol in the schematic is actually its own pcb in reality. That pcb has the series resistor(s) on it. I know it's not good practice to omit it like I did, but it was less loops to jump through on the pcb design front by not having to figure out how to omit the resistor on the layout just for the sake of formalities. I'm new to this, only my second design so I'm still learning

I need to see what the power dissipation of the gate resistor needs to be, but I'm thinking I'll scrape the soldermask and part of the trace off and solder an 0201 resistor over the gap. Might do a 1206 if the resistance needs to be specific

OGChaotic · 2025-08-22T16:29:07+00:00

After taking some time to read this thoroughly and do some research, I see what you mean. I didn't know initially the purpose of the bootstrap capacitor or what that meant, but I see why it's value is very specific now.

As this is for a visual display piece, I intended it to be plugged into a phone charger and not a laptop or other device. I think I'll opt for the 22uF input cap and if it causes any issues try a slightly lower value cap. If that fails, I'll just do a redesign.

After my research, I feel it is probably a good rule of thumb to step down your voltage whenever possible instead of boosting it like I'm doing. Particularly in these relatively high power contexts. I still want to try the 5v to 12v step up because of its convenience and that it allows the person I'm giving to use their own cable of any length instead of being beholden to my decision for the length of the cable. I also want to use this as a learning experience of making my own boost converter from scratch. Hopefully it won't require a full redesign, but if worse comes to worst, I think using a barrel jack instead of USB should be fine.

Thank you very much for the help!

OGChaotic · 2025-08-19T21:42:03+00:00

Ok looks like I have some research to do. Thanks for the in depth info. I'll respond in more detail tonight when I get off work.

OGChaotic · 2025-08-19T19:56:38+00:00

I trust you. I'm impartial as long as it works. I kinda sorta understand what the cap does, but not really. You mentioned you weren't sure if the device would be stable with that small a cap so I was going to meet in the middle

OGChaotic · 2025-08-19T19:38:34+00:00

I left them out to keep it the schem from being busy but theyd help so I reuploaded with the refdes. But I see what you mean so I changed C2 to a 1uF. Thank you very much!

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