Quote from: sgrunger on August 28, 2013, 11:11:13 PM

I wouldn't mind going over 500 Tongue

Someone earlier stated, 16.384mhz, 1.2kohm R1 gets you 440, is there an easy 2 part replacement to get to 500+ ?

Edit - Ah just saw the chart. So, still only two parts to change, but you have to give it an external power source and ground ?

While I fed the power directly to the chip, you will have to feed separate 5V to the usb stick if your going to keep the on board regulator, my thought would be to cut a usb cable and just solder the signal wires to the jack on the BE and feed power in the header on the end. I had the regulator pulled to no need to chop a cable. As for the other DC-DC regulator this one might work I don't know someone else could check and see. As for an inductor I am not sure. there is a ground plane under the regulator from ping 1 to 3 the solder mask would have to be removed and some kind of attempt to solder the pad on the bottom of the regulator down. As for how much power a rough guide would be to take the power column and divide it by 5 would get you a round amperage. I'll see what I can find for an inductor but it is most likely not going to fit.

http://www.digikey.com/scripts/DKSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&itemSeq=135412759&uq=635133162195198885

Quote from: bitzip on August 29, 2013, 12:47:27 AM

I'm interested in this project. Great job.

I can't wait until there is a final parts list and instructions.

There are a lot of these usb sticks out there, someone could make some money starting a service that upgrades these little puppies.

This might be true I would be worried about them self destructing. I was just lucky to have access to good equipment to just see what could be done. I feel the regulator is going to have to be moved off board, that thing makes a lot of heat I am not having to deal with in this setup. Plus the stock metal slab while pretty just adds a little more mass and area I don't feel that it is very effective unless you want to burn you hand

I have a plan that I want to build but if only we could but the ASICs, of course they basically already built what I had wanted to do with the BE Blade. I have two final plans on it going to be finding the maximum junction voltage I am sure trying to go higher and the other is to build a schematic of the board and move to a board with more area.
I'll feel better if I can run it outside of the "lab" environment.