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Dicodes Flat Printed Circuit Board FL80_V2.1 

(Preliminary, Subject to Change!) 

The FL80 is an electronic circuit board for use in do it yourself electronic cigarettes, like box or tube 

mods. 

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Size, Dimensions and Positions 

The drawing below shows the overall size of dicodes FL80.  

The board has several mounting options. When shipped, it has mounting strips on three sides, 

each with several 2.1mm holes to mount it inside a housing using M2 screws or equivalent. 

The mounting strips can be broken away individually. Without the strips the board has an 

outline dimension of 17.2mm x 56.2mm (+-0.4mm due to break lines), or 17.2x63.7mm 

respectively (with Micro-USB, see below). 

There is also a separate metalized GND hole (battery minus), which gives the option to take 

the GND connection from the housing if housing is connected to battery minus. 

There are two USB connector option. One Mini-USB is on the bottom side of the board and 

shows to the right, when you look at the board with the fire bottom in top position. 

Note that the V2 boards default assembly is without the mini-USB plug populated (Beta 

Version is always with mini-USB mounted). 

The second option is to use the vertically mounted micro-USB plug on the extended part of the 

PCB, which can be cut when not needed. The cut board has solder pads to reconnect it to the 

main board with single wires. Such, the micro-USB board can be mounted elsewhere in the 

housing. 

   

 

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Summary of Contents for FL80

Page 1: ...17 2x63 7mm respectively with Micro USB see below There is also a separate metalized GND hole battery minus which gives the option to take the GND connection from the housing if housing is connected to battery minus There are two USB connector option One Mini USB is on the bottom side of the board and shows to the right when you look at the board with the fire bottom in top position Note that the ...

Page 2: ... and Charging 2 1 General Options 2 1 1 One Battery The board can be run from a single Li Ion battery with the option to use the onboard active switch mode charging circuit either supplied through the onboard Mini USB plug or by the on board vertical micro USB which can be separated cut from the main board If neither mini USB nor vertical micro USB is to be used any separate USB Plug carrier board...

Page 3: ...mper J1 MUST be removed or shorted to the left pad when using the dicodes balancer Don t change any other jumper settings on the top side of the board Drawing 3 With two batteries the electronic automatically activates battery supervision The display will show an error message and further vaping is suppressed when either of the batteries falls below the programmable minimum discharge level When us...

Page 4: ...d AND J1 opened the FPC plug is connected to the battery instead of the on board charger This gives the opportunity to implement a different charger or when two batteries in series are used to charge the batteries with a charger capable to charge 2 series batteries When the on board charger circuitry is used note the following behavior As soon as the USB Plug is connected with a battery connected ...

Page 5: ...or an external charger either use the 6 pin FPC connection default not populated on the top side of the board or connect cables to the solder pads on the bottom Note to leave J1 open when using an external charging circuitry Otherwise the on board charger will be paralleled to the external one which might damage either parts ...

Page 6: ... GND Pin 6 GND Remark Accidentially connecting a USB source with a FFC cable to the Button FPC External Buttons does not harm the board 3 Display and buttons 3 1 Display There is a 128x32 display attached to a 12pin FPC connector on the board The software is prepared to drive this format The display has to be attached to the on board FPC connector with the active area down as shown in the followin...

Page 7: ...Open the black lever of the FPC connector Attache the display cable top down into the FPC connector Make sure the cable is straight and in end position The flip the lever down as indicated by the arrow ...

Page 8: ...e user wants to place the display somewhere else in the box application instead of plugging the OLED directly to the onboard FPC a standard 12pin 0 5mm pitch FFC cable can be connected to the board which is then connected to a display carrier board at the other end Here is a picture of the display carrier board dicodes offers ...

Page 9: ...ssembly is 5 5mm distance from the frame Please define during your order which position you prefer On one side of the board there is a FPC connector again 6pin 0 5mm pitch like the external USB connector default not populated where buttons can be connected which are mounted somewhere else in the design Beside the use of the FPC external buttons can also be wired by cables using the solder pads on ...

Page 10: ... on type and capacity between 20 80m Ohms At 40W output power and 3 1V battery voltage at the outer contacts the power loss inside the battery is already between 40 3 1 0 02 0 08 W 3 3 13 3W Also note that the current of 12 9A in this case leads to a voltage drop inside the battery of between 0 26V 1 03V For this topic see also application note Power and Battery in Electronic Cigarettes With two b...

Page 11: ...Wiring Battery and Atomizer ...

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