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01-06-2013, 04:15 PM
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Looking good.... I just got my arduino and TFT screen on Friday from China, unfortunately they sent me the wrong ardunio board. So still trying to sort that with them. Will probably be easier, and take less time to just order another board from someone else.
Also received my heatsink from Modular LED last week... just have to take in down and get it cut to size I need. 
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01-06-2013, 06:44 PM
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Are you trying to mount the drivers on the Protoboard?
Having your own boards made up may be easier. The eagle files are publicly available.  It is very easy to send out to get your boards made up. My CAT4101 drivers only cost 99cents a piece. If you go this route, all you have to do is connect your power supply and the PWM signals from your Arduino. It is much easier to troubleshoot separate modules than trying to put everything in one package.
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01-06-2013, 07:30 PM
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01-06-2013, 08:36 PM
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Iteadstudio. They have regular sales on. I am really happy with the quality.
 The meanwell driver boards would be twice the size of the CAT4101 so they would be about $2 a board. There are also files out there for other boards with varying numbers of the meanwell drivers. Not to hijack the thread, but I am changing the direction I am going with my DIY LEDs because I won a Vertex Illuminex fixture in the VAHS raffle. I have a number of driver boards and components and I am also thinking of getting rid of my 81 LED DIY 4 foot fixture that was run for only 10 hours total. Plug and play. 
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01-06-2013, 10:54 PM
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Nice going with winning a fixture, totally cool! But alas, no winning for me.  I'm really looking forward to this build though. Something to be said about being able to say you built something yourself. Hopefully it works 
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01-09-2013, 12:18 AM
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Well got some parts in today. My TFT LCD touch screen and the RTC MEGA shield.
 
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01-09-2013, 01:03 AM
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ah dude that is so easy solder here and there touch some of the jiggy here and some of the jiggy there and pouf you have smoke. lol
seriously well done man I wouoldnt know where to start.
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01-09-2013, 04:28 AM
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LOL, I'm not sure I do either, haha, but I'm figuring it out
 And you're right, with a good soldering iron, it is very easy to solder these boards up. This is how the Real Time Clock and ITDB02 MEGA shield comes comes:  and this is what it looks like after about 3 hours of soldering:  Actually it wouldn't have taken 3 hours except, see that tiny little chip to the left of the teeny little silver cylinder? I soldered it on backwards and had to unsolder it (much more difficult than it sounds) clean up all the solder pads and re-do it. I actually don't know if there is a right way or wrong way to put it on, but there is a teeny weeny little dimple on one corner and one of the photo's I found on the net of another guy who built the same thing had the dimple in the opposite corner that I did. Logically I just assumed I was the one between us that got it wrong And the back: 
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01-09-2013, 04:34 AM
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Looks pretty pro, Dom! How much fun did you have bending all those resistors
 And yes, there is a right way and a wrong way to solder on that chip. It's lessons like these that teach you how valuable braided copper solder wick is. It's like an eraser for soldering 
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