fxtentacle 2 days ago

Do you have any recommendations for FCC/CE testing providers?

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ishyfishyy 4 hours ago

What was your marketing strategy once you had the $10 deposit landing page setup?

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technothrasher 4 hours ago

I definitely feel your pain. I own a company that makes custom process controls for industrial and commercial clients, and while we work from a large library of hardware and software designs from past jobs, every job has a lot of the same "start from the beginning" feel as what you went through. Especially, the one thing you didn't check is always the thing that is somehow screwed up, and the sleepless nights wondering halfway into the project if you're in deep trouble.

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necovek 3 hours ago

Being 6'5" myself, I am worried I'd be blinded by the lamp when I stand up: to avoid adding a base under (an already bulky) base, is there a way to separate the lamp itself and have it wall/ceiling mounted (still pointing upwards)?

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  • sberens 3 hours ago

    Because the lamp is 6'3" it's only below eye level for people who are 6'7-8.

    We had another 6'5" customer who was worried about the height but they said it was totally fine even with shoes on.

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stbtrax 3 hours ago

How did you figure out how to price your product?

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niobe 4 hours ago

Hello, nice write up. I'm curious about your deal with the factory and downstream suppliers.. did all these iterations and fixes cost more every time? Or it was a fixed contract? How does that all work

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srtw 4 hours ago

Just curious about the frequency of the diodes and do they pulse simultaneously? Quite often I can perceive flicker in moving objects indoors.

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  • sberens 4 hours ago

    We use constant current reduction dimming so there's zero flicker!

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    • srtw 4 hours ago

      That’s great to hear and a big plus, but I’m actually curious about the undimmed full brightness refresh rate of the LEDs.

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      • drum55 4 hours ago

        If it’s constant current the “refresh rate” is infinite, or zero depending how you look at it.

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        • srtw 4 hours ago

          Didn’t realize how they actually function, looks like I need some new lights.

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Neywiny 2 days ago

So just to confirm, the actual cause for the controls not working is still unknown to the reader but the reason the measurements didn't make sense was swapped labels?

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  • sberens 2 days ago

    The controls weren't working because we had wired them up according to the labels which were wrong (which is also why the measurements didn't make sense to us).

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    • Neywiny 2 days ago

      Ah. A lesson from somebody who's built hardware that I'm sure you've now learned: make sure connectors can't plug into eachother unless they're supposed to. Even if they're different connectors, different keying, whatever, sometimes they can still be forced together.

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      • sowbug 4 hours ago

        This is good advice for robust design, but I swear, 9 times out of 10, you will be the one who keys it the wrong way during CAD layout.

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      • tuetuopay 2 hours ago

        I've seen datacenter techs successfully force an SFP optic in an RJ45 port. So yeah, the shape needs to be very different.

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      • abdullahkhalids 4 hours ago

        I built a lot of Ikea last month. And I was just marveling how cleverly designed everything was so that it was quite difficult to put two wrong pieces together. Mostly, the only warnings in the manuals were to rotate a piece correctly.

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