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Is that the guy in the yellow case with a tiny built-in fan and BM1384 chips?
If so, I can't really recommend using it. They basically stole my 2Pac design and botched it into a fire hazard. The main regulator circuit is technically adjustable but there's no safe range on it which means you can overvolt the chips to like 2V quite easily. This is especially troublesome because they put diodes across the node-level capacitors to help balance on startup so if you give it more than ~1.4V those diodes start to conduct and then start to smoke. I think the chips are counterfeit (at least on the ones I looked at, the logos were lasered off) and not very well adhered to the heatsink. Both the ones I looked at had USB configs copied from one of my 2Pacs, including the same serial number on both sticks (all of my devices have unique serials).
But hey they got a nifty little built-in fan, so there's that.
If so, I can't really recommend using it. They basically stole my 2Pac design and botched it into a fire hazard. The main regulator circuit is technically adjustable but there's no safe range on it which means you can overvolt the chips to like 2V quite easily. This is especially troublesome because they put diodes across the node-level capacitors to help balance on startup so if you give it more than ~1.4V those diodes start to conduct and then start to smoke. I think the chips are counterfeit (at least on the ones I looked at, the logos were lasered off) and not very well adhered to the heatsink. Both the ones I looked at had USB configs copied from one of my 2Pacs, including the same serial number on both sticks (all of my devices have unique serials).
But hey they got a nifty little built-in fan, so there's that.
Wow, that explains why I couldn't get my TTBit copy to work for the life of me. Complained to Amazon, returning and just bought the new GekkoScience model.
Thanks for posting this!
