Der Cockermaker Part 2: The return of Der Cockermaker

[XEMON]

To do:
- find a way to attach trigger microswitch

made some pins, now need a few spacers to keep the switch centered in the frame ...

[XEMON]

Well trigger in ... but got a few bad news ...
1) the screen died,
2) teh bord is not registering trigger pull ... so got some digging to do ...

Edit:
Got the board up and running and got spares for everything 👍
should have it button up in a few days.
Also went a bit crazy on something, hope you'll be able to figure it out 🤣

[Roger7pball]

Make sure you have the pull up/down resistor enabled in the calibration. I accidentally turned it off on one of mine and it caused issues.

[XEMON]

It's all good there ... Resettled the board and it's back up and running.
Thanks 👍

[XEMON]

No pic update ... I'm not able to drive a single solenoid from the lipo ... Trying to figure out where the power is going/dissipated on the Morlok ...

I'm at the point where I may have to gut everything and start from scratch if I can't find a solution to this ...

[devilzcall]

Just a capacitor in parallel to the battery should do it

[XEMON]

Unfortunately it doesn't have enough power to properly open the solenoid ...
Looks like the Morlok is just not able to drive the solenoid from the lipo ... So I may have to start over the project with a traditional 9v battery 😞

[XEMON]

This is the last good by for Der Cockermaker V2 ...
this version will never see the field as it cannot work ... Time to start over with a 9v battery ...

[XEMON]

It suck ... I was looking forward to getting pretty electronics on display ...

going back to this layout:

[devilzcall]

How about a tiny 2s lipo instead of just a single cell? Those run between 7.6 and 8.4V but have a lot more output than you 9v and won't take up more space

[XEMON]

I thought of that, but the board has a lipo single cell controller, so i don't need a charging system for it ... which was the main appeal of the lipo in this install ... if i need to remove it to charge it, it defeat the purpose ...
Also thought of putting a separate charge controller, but couldn't find anything small enough to fit in there ...

so, all in all, return to the 9v battery is the best/only way to make everything fit in there ...

[XEMON]

After 2 years, and a few failed frame layout ... Which lead to scraping a frame ... Which lead to getting a new frame ...

I have the final layout for the DerCockermaker V3 🥳

After the failure of the Morlok to manage the lipo power output to the solenoid, I caved in and returned to a 9v battery.
The shocker frame do not have room for the battery, screen and board, so I relocated the battery in a custom "drop"/battery compartment.

Not sure about the reg, and need to tune it , probably need a lpr rebuilt, and hopefully the ram works 😅

Here is how it sites right now:

[Blackmagic71]

Good work! Looks like it’s coming along nicely.