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I've shrunk down the fat capacitors to just 1000µF each, which made the board shorter a bit. I've also added larger headers + 1k series resistors (all 0603 now) for ALL I/O lines of the micro, so I can probe effortlessly without shorting anything. There are 5 new status LEDs as well. The main LEDs are now from Nichia and only need about 50mA per channel to get 20 lumen per piece. Total output should be about 600 lumen.

Having some trouble with depth of view here.

Having some trouble with depth of view here.

Having some trouble with depth of view here.

Having some trouble with depth of view here.

Having some trouble with depth of view here.

Having some trouble with depth of view here.

I'm planning to play with the hub motor a bit. It is easily removed and as long as the electronics is still functional I'll have a look at the signals going or coming from the 4 pins of the motor.

More than 16500 power-on hours without any trouble. As of lately it started talking to me: "CLICK CLICK CATCHUNK!!!!". I instantly moved my system to a new disk. The smallest one I could get was 500GB. Time is moving fast. ALWAYS MAKE BACKUPS - REGULARLY.

Unfortunately all of these very nice Torx screws don't seem to be metric. At least not M3. I like Torx much better than the common socket head ones.

Time to go 'back to sender'.

That's what I call a lot of corrosion.