DNA40 Big Screen; StealthVape enclosure

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o yea sorry god knows how i managed that but its actually 10mm high (shall edit the other post, thx) (i double checked the width , thats correct)


Yea well i'v decided that chasing vape tech is not such a good idea it just costs so much money. I'v spent 2K this year just to figure out what i like/dont like but i think i know what i need to satisfy me and my partner now, I shall try to force myself to slow right down on the vape spending.

Well we'll see

About your 510, do you really have to thread it? maybe just hot glue or silicone or even epoxy if you want permanency (both along the thread and under the 510 plate. You should be able to solder the ground wire to it somewhere there.

Great, 10mm it is. Thanks.

2K? Good grief! Who cares if you're not smoking though?

Yeah, well that 510 hole is 8.5mm and is perfect for taper tapping to 10mm. I could drill it out and glue but it'd be a botch. Also, it's not that easy to ground. The thread on the FD is too short to get through the thick case so I couldnt put a solder tag on it. I thought about scraping the paint away under the top but experience says no! Especially as milliohms are precious in DNA40 output circuits.

 

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Lovely job Greg, I'll chase up the guy that's producing the enclosures for the big screen 40 this week as I'm hopeful they're ready to send samples out.

I bags be a beta tester!

Seriously Rob, if there's a small chance of getting a wide screen enclosure soon it would save me a lot of hassle. I'd be happy to do a swapsie for my as yet untouched kit and an adjustment / small consideration / restocking fee?

Bob

 

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2K? Good grief! Who cares if you're not smoking though?

No and thats how i justify it to myself tehe.

Yeah, well that 510 hole is 8.5mm and is perfect for taper tapping to 10mm. I could drill it out and glue but it'd be a botch. Also, it's not that easy to ground. The thread on the FD is too short to get through the thick case so I couldnt put a solder tag on it. I thought about scraping the paint away under the top but experience says no! Especially as milliohms are precious in DNA40 output circuits.

hmm, i wouldn’t say it was a botch to use epoxies etc for the 510, you'd be surprised how some of the so called professional market devices look when you get into them (sometimes no wonder they don’t want you to open them up) but i understand the care and love put into a personal build.

I hope you might get to try out the new enclosures

 

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I bags be a beta tester!

Seriously Rob, if there's a small chance of getting a wide screen enclosure soon it would save me a lot of hassle. I'd be happy to do a swapsie for my as yet untouched kit and an adjustment / small consideration / restocking fee?

Bob

It'll be soon in production terms of 2-4 weeks and a swap won't be a problem. Sounds like a long time but some stuff we're getting shipped by sea these days which adds 8-10 weeks to that. Makes fasttech seem quick doesn't it

 

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...hmm, i wouldn’t say it was a botch to use epoxies ... but i understand the care and love put into a personal build.

See, I worked in military electronics years ago. If I had suggested any build like that I would have been instantly taken round the back and dismembered! So it's not so much love as abject fear.

I hope you might get to try out the new enclosures

Ta! I'll let you know.

 

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It'll be soon in production terms of 2-4 weeks and a swap won't be a problem. Sounds like a long time but some stuff we're getting shipped by sea these days which adds 8-10 weeks to that. Makes fasttech seem quick doesn't it

Sounds mighty good to me. Thanks Rob. Would you PM / email me as and when please?

I won't return the enclosure yet, it'll come in handy when I win the Stealthmasons draw!

I'm not knocking FT at the moment; I ordered a Kayfun recently. It got to me in 9 days!

 

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And another DNA40 StealthVape box is born.


In the end "all" I had to do was use a 6mm rat tail file to elongate the screen cutout.


And tap the 510 hole for the Fat Daddy with a £4.50 tap kit I found on eBay.
And use the rat tail to file some clearance for the FD pin in the screen sled.
And wire it up (badly)...


... so badly in fact that I can't get the plastic covering the electronics in place!
(But not so badly that it didn't work first time. )

Notes:
1. Big thanks to JD for suggesting filing down the screen sled; that worked sooooo easily.
2. Big thanks to Rob for noting in the StealthVape description that the supplied power wire was too thick. The SV 18AWG silicon wire was exactly right. It just poked through the DNA40 hole pad (providing you didn't tin it first). (It also fitted the Fat Daddy pin perfectly.)
3. The supplied buttons as fitted were fine. I like them. I bought some alternatives SV suggested but didn't use them. I hope I don't live to regret it!
4. I really like that Fat Daddy. Even though it's spring loaded the spring doesn't form part of the circuit. The only thing I'll remember next time is not to get solder on the outside of the pin as that stops the pin sliding smoothly ... err ... obviously.
5. I don't like the supplied battery connector. The method, or lack thereof, of connecting wires to the contacts and having the wires come out alongside the battery stinks. Shoulda boughta Keystone! It means I'll have to recharge the battery in situ rather than swapping it over as I'd hoped.
6. It would have been nice to have some perspex for the window. I spent hours searching for something and wound up with some grotty bit of plastic film. It reacted with the acrylate glue I fixed it with, will scratch easily and can only be looked at from a distance through lorgnettes with a curled lip. (Other than that it's fine!)
7. I liked the quality of the box itself. There's something wholesome about a milled ally billet. The paint finish is good and was easy to touch up with an indelible marker where I'd filed the window out.

I am just going to put some nickel into an unsuspecting Taifun and may be some time.

PS When's the SX350 enclosure coming in Rob?

 

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Nicely done , I would like to have another go at building it as i would have gone about the wiring differently , i would hope all the switch ground wires are common ground and therefore could have all been wired with a single ground wire from the board.

Im still looking for a DNA big screen, duel 18650, box/enclosure with a more rounded corners than a standard box but i think id have to make my own in the end.

 

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Nicely done , I would like to have another go at building it as i would have gone about the wiring differently , i would hope all the switch ground wires are common ground and therefore could have all been wired with a single ground wire from the board.

Im still looking for a DNA big screen, duel 18650, box/enclosure with a more rounded corners than a standard box but i think id have to make my own in the end.

I did think about a common switch ground and I'm 99% certain it would be OK. The trouble is that the 1% uncertainty might be expensive. I spent a few minutes looking at the pcb through an eye glass trying to find out what makes it tick, It's got an Atmel SAM controller so I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't use standard switch input circuitry - except possibly noise.

Like you I wanted a dual battery mod really. I liked the Vapor Flask type until I saw this Tuxedo DNA. Makes me feel slightly inadequate!

 

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well the best thing to do would be to just stick a decent multimeter on the grounds and see if they are all common which is what i'll do next time.

hmm yea thats a nice mod box, yet another 3d printed job though. Iv got nothing against 3d printed boxes i was looking at these DIY Mod Shop by jonniemac on Shapeways

If i had a 3d printer id make a dna 40 enclosure myself