Bladeplug Charger. Version 1.0

Sabers
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I’ve finally got round to getting some TP4056 boards, and I plan to build one of Baldusi’s proper blade plug chargers. Which means I want to be certain that there’s no current draw during charging, in order to make sure the full charge detection works properly.

I plan to do away with the LED strips inside the charger and just use the two built-in status LEDs on the 4056 module to indicate charging or fully charged.

My question is really to Fredrik, Fett or NoSloppy, whose bladestyle knowledge I know is off the scale amazing - what blade style can I use that will switch the FETs on for charging, but won’t light the hilt-side blade connector LEDs? I know StylePtr Black will switch them off, as that’s what’s recommended to shutdown FET-powered Bluetooth modules. But I thought maybe a blinking style, blinking between Black and Black might con the Proffieboard into thinking the FETs need power, even though the data sent says to not light anything.

Or am I (as is so often the case) missing some glaringly simple and elegant solution to this?

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Add this to CONFIG_STYLES:

class BlackPower {
public:
  LayerRunResult run(BladeBase* base) {
    return LayerRunResult::UNKNOWN;
  }
  SimpleColor getColor(int led) {
    return SimpleColor(Color16(0,0,0));
  }
};

Then use StylePtr<BlackPower>() to keep it on.

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Amazing! Thanks Prof! :smiley: :pray:

Forgive my ignorance, but do you mean to add it to the style_ptr.h file which is in the Styles folder? I’m guessing somewhere like line 122, so it looks like this:

  BladeStyle* make() override {
    DefaultArgumentParserWrapper dapw(CurrentArgParser, default_arguments_);
    CurrentArgParser = &dapw;
    BladeStyle* ret = allocator_->make();
    CurrentArgParser = dapw.argParser_;
    return ret;
  }
  
  StyleFactory* allocator_;
  const char* default_arguments_;
};

//  ***************************
class BlackPower {
public:
  LayerRunResult run(BladeBase* base) {
    return LayerRunResult::UNKNOWN;
  }
  SimpleColor getColor(int led) {
    return SimpleColor(Color16(0,0,0));
  }
};
//  ***************************

template<class STYLE>
StyleAllocator StylePtr(const char* default_arguments) {
  return new StyleFactoryWithDefault(StylePtr<STYLE>(), default_arguments);
}

// Same as StylePtr, but makes the style a "charging" style, which means
// that you can't turn it on/off, and the battery low warning is disabled.
template<class STYLE>
StyleAllocator ChargingStylePtr() {
  static StyleFactoryImpl<ChargingStyle<STYLE> > factory;
  return &factory;
}
#endif
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No, here:

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Another hidden gem! :ok_hand:
Thanks so much Prof. Now added to my config and compiles successfully. Will test in anger tomorrow once I’ve built the charge plug. :smiley: