Tye Mansell

Yea sorry it has been a while, life happens. been dropping into DAS near you a bit recently. IV been thinking about going out out on my own with my workshop

Hey mate!! Good to hear from you 😃

Hey I know this is out of the blue , I hope all is well, I was curious to know if running your own business is worth it ? I'm not really sure what I'm wanting to ask, but is the work life balance good and the income good enough ? Tell me off if it's to personal.

I'm currently at contact group and its a bit top heavy

Sorry I missed this message, sure go ahead but I'm not to knowledge abl about them

Can I pick your brain about ESP32 for a sec?

Hmm, something like that could work

But nicer ?

I'll get a picture

What’s a security cab?

Security cabinet ?

ill see if i can draw somthing up

could almost use a security cabinet with screen cut out ? there was a bunch on old touch screen with windows 10 in built at the tip last time i checked

Like this. Jukebox is a bootstrapped windows 10

Ah yes do you have picture of your idea, running a Linux jukebox os I'm guessing

touch

Wall mounted touch screen juke box or old school juke box ?

Wanted to make up a wall mounted jukebox

What were u needing

Çöôl ç lol phone stuffing up

Cool ç

I çan but not well

Do you CAD?

Yep 👍

Too easy, might be a little late, just park on the street ?

Yeah so it’s the greenish workshop out the back. The gate might be shut but it won’t be locked

Ah yes. 23 Sunderland st Moonah

Sounds good what's the address again

Maybe about 10?

Sure what time you thinking

Keen for mucken around with electronics tomororw ?

Not that bad tbh had a headache so stoped drinking early. Just at the state cinema

How’s that over hang?

It can see red

Sure I have Friday till Tuesday off

Free one day or arvo for a play?

They look very nice :o

Guess what’s here 🎉

Ah ok, the colour senseer should be able to do both but the only thing I'm unsure is how fast the red coins are moving to pickup the colour, where would you have the solenoid on the first scoop ? Could have the first scoop out of the way Untill it gets a signal to move down to kick of the red ones?

I need to know how meany red ones go into the container OR kick them off early with a solenoid.

Then there are scoops down the rail to kick the coin off into a container.

They roll down the rail past the sensor (black bar looking thing to the cents left of this photo). That tells the unit what coin it is.

Dump coins in the hopper and they spin up onto the rail

I have a coin counter and sorter.

They are just normal coins we paint red

We give out red coins to put sites for refunds if a machin faults or free games for promotions.

ah, thats tomorrows job

got that picture ?

is it a blue screen of sort

I’ll take a photo in a moment, it will say 999 words

lol fair enough tell me when you have trime, i might even have a tcs3200 somewhere so ill have look when i uncover it

Ahh well! That’s a fun story for another day 🙂. But there is a project in mind

looks fun, i have like a bag full of Arduino nanos and some unos, whats your plan with this ?

Cool cool, thats pretty fast should be here in no time

it says 7 day dispatch world wide

Should be *

Should plenty, what's delivery time ?

middle of the road

i went with the 15Amps

coooool

Dont this think so most of the other stuff I would have in stock

anything else from RS before i place the order?

if charging is 24/7 and usage is 12h a day it might last a while

also RX coil can be huge if needed

well, theres only one way to find out

i think it does work it will be low trickle charge, but also can frequency travel through slate well ?

yep. it might not even be posable but, worth a shot i think

well maybe order the parts and can try and set up test when they arrive, from rs

fair

idiot proof

that can be a back up option i think, but they would forget too easy i think

can staff just plug it in as part of their pack up and set up routine ? or is that to easy

yea you could do that any way i suppose

kinda intuitive

light off, no pool

light on, table in use, everything on

thats why i though a photo cell to see if the pool table light is turned on or not

its a hard one

yea that is true

and staff might want pre-open games

and also lots of places can close between 11pm and 4am depending so... thats also hard

boot time of the mech is about 2-3 min, so it has it be ready

what about a time switch so you just have to press the button and will stay on for a time before putting you rmoney in ? or just have a 7 day time set to times they are open ?

well maybe not the solar panel 😂

yep. all the possible

solar panel on the side of the table ? lol

you would have to bypass the switch if you wanted to charge at night and day or just charge at day when the lights on :/ but yea you could put a photon cell in table to stop the battery as much

fair , where is the light for the table located ?

orrr...... something something induction switch? gezz who knows, one step at a time

then maybe a photo cell hidden in the edge of the pool table to turn battery on and off.

so they control the light but not the charging

so my master plan is that the light will have permanent power running to it with a light switch running over to the bar. so each night the bar thinks they have turned everything off but really the battry is still charging

cool sounds possible, hopefully iv read all the info correct . are oyu going to just trickle charge the battery ? and is it just one or two

yep! heaps of times

could the transmitting wire run around the inside edge a couple of times ?

hmm, about 1m long by 250mm wide (ish)

how big is the lamp above the table

the circuit needs 2 coils but does not spec what amps but something that can handle the charging circuit for the battery i guess ? and 2 mosfet

and how many ?

i have some roles of cable that might do the job for a test. what amp tamura do we need ?

interesting

and for best results should use litz wire

byut this will if you have similar

i dont have have mosfets to suit

Got a link?

yea they are not cheap though

Dose RS have them?

Need some 50uh coils Jay car didn't have any, but I can start populating a board with what i have

Sure I'd don't mind, pretty sure I have wrapped my head around how to do it, when were you thinking

As in payed days work at the workshop paying with this idear

Feel like experimenting with this plan?

^possible

(Under slate)

So heaps of serface space

Yep

And charge the battery in the pool table ?

I was hoping to put the sender coil inside a pool table light

Hmm, that’s not very far

i think it was only like 30cm

I wonder what distance you’d get on that circuit

I’ll look more when I’m not driving

Ken oath

actually

would charge a lead acid battery i think, could not find any DIY ones but they are pretty cheap

pus this

sorry only does 20m at 24v

i might have found somthing

lol why

I want to change a small brick battery (the 8ah type) from a distance of about 1m to 1.5m

whats happening

a little

Sooo... know much about wireless charging 🤔