[IMR or only li-poly]

I have not seen this accessory board for sale anywhere which leads me to believe its not going to be out with the release of this chip. It's something coming a little later. So most people are going to have to use the lipo's till that board is released. Which for me it doesn't matter because I am planning a build for power supply and one for on the go with a lipo.

[Let's see your 200's!]

ryanschram said:

I would've had mine together, but my chip is DOA. Working with the vendor to get that situation un-fuggered up...

Thats not a good sign. I had heard 1 other guy had a good board but the screen was bad. He installed it and was able to use mod without screen till protovapor sent him a new chip/screen.

[Let's see your 200's!]

Thats epic, those buttons look like gamecube controller buttons lol.

[Using a 12V DC power supply]

mikepetro said:

23A on the input is all that is required.



That power supply would be overkill for whats needed.

The 55A is the OUTPUT max, not the INPUT.

Ok cool I hadn't actually looked at the spec sheet yet, I had heard 55amp somewhere. But now I wonder why if they only need 23amp input why in the heck they even need such high output lipo's?  Oh maybe its because they wanted to have the input voltage be higher than the output voltage so it could be a buck only chip, instead of buck/boost.  Because I would think that 2 18650's in series would be way more than enough amp's or a 2s lipo in series. Actually this makes me happy personally because I can now get a lot cheaper of a power supply.  Thanks for setting me straight!

[Come Work at Evolv]

XenonRam said:

Uh oh... Does this mean Evolv is going to be making a mod!?!? Maybe a Darwin 200? Sounds good to me. I hope so.

I'm just guessing but I had heard rumors of them making diy kits with the reference mod they used for beta. I really hope that is true because it will make it way easier for people to get into putting together their own mods with a dna 200, good experience, fun, and saves money.

[Using a 12V DC power supply]

I am also interested in doing a build with a power supply. Do I need to have basically one that will be over 55 amps that this dna 200 can draw? Because the guy above mentioned a 23amp one but is that going to be enough. I saw the RC power supplys that looks like they would be able to do the job. Like this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Power-Supply-12-Volt-DC-75AMP-900W-for-RC-Charger-Blue-Diamond-Plate-FREE-SHIP-/321552257880?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ade021358

The only issue I see is there seems to be several wires coming off of it. I don't know if it would work.

[EScribe Software]

Vaper said:

To Brandon and John: I know you said you have no plans for a Mac version of the EScribe software. Here's something to think about. I'm a professional Linux kernel developer with 9 years of experience. I've also done work on KDE and various other Linux applications and I've also worked for Intel and IBM. Give me a NDA to sign and I will port it to Mac and maintain it.

Sir you are a gentleman and scholar for trying to help out even though I don't own a mac and I hate macs (I only will use computers I can build, can't do that with MACs or at least that I know of) and don't use them I applaud you for trying to do something to help out the people that don't have windows based PCs. Someone should also port it to linux but I am happy with windows if I can't use linux. I have both on my PCs.  Anyways I also am in the IT field. Done some programming, PC repair, remote PC repair and now I am back in school to go into the networking portion of it all.  Anyways I hope John and Brandon take you up on your generous offer.

[E-Scibe Manual?]

basilray said:

You'll be happy to know there's a fully interactive simulation-based tutorial coming.  I've been working on building it for the last few weeks.  

The crew at Evolv put some changes into the software this last week, which means the training has to be updated.  I'm hoping to have a revised version over to Brandon tomorrow to get hosted for you by Evolv.

Oh noes its being done vt vasilinegay i mean basilray?  Is that a good thing?  Jking man, I love some of your reviews I used to watch from time to time.  Thanks for putting in the work I cannot wait for this release!

[Suggestion: Finer Temperature Adjustments]

I checked into uploading the files onto sculpteo, I am not sure if the files are coming up as the correct size. It pulls up the buttons as being in cm but the size makes sense more so in mm. Also it does say there are some places that are to thin.  Before I go through all the trouble of turning this into a real thing and spend a ton of money doing so. I had heard there might be future plans of there being a diy kit of this reference mod being made in the future.  My guess is this would be better done and also cheaper as it would be done in larger numbers.  If this is happening is it way out in the distant future?

Also the large button came out as 10 X 11 X 4 CM but it seems way to large and estimated at over $400 lol.  But when switched to mm scale it seems to make more sense at the size. Similar thing with the other smaller buttons. The 2 main parts of the frame seemed to be the correct sizes and wall. Maybe its just a issue with sculpteo itself.

Also what battery is being used in the reference mod so I know what I am looking for if I decide to try this out in the future.