See, this is how shit gets started. 
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Ask him when heās going to man up and get some real mods put in 
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I go through this thread every month or so because itās hard for me to keep up with it.
@Hamspiced not calling you out just trying to help, Iām like 99% sure those wireless LEDs use 125kHz. Thatās near what Qi chargers use which is why yours lights them up. It would be very difficult for them to use 350MHz on inductive charging.
Also Iām pretty sure those arenāt vias on the chameleon antenna, theyāre just manufacturing defects
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Oh and thereās 6 layers. Thatās what this little indicator things is for. Itās pretty common on high grade PCBs like this. They definitely hired someone very knowledgeable to do the design.
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I already sent off the ones i had, otherwise i would have taken a picture of the VNA.
My QI Charger isā¦ weird? It doesnt seem to broadcast a straight signal. it appears to be a roling signal. Like i said mine is chinesium and very tempermental. If anything starts drawing power on it that is not a phone or a small LED it goes into a protect mode and just starts flashing its outside light. If my flipper gets too close it it it does that and i have to unplug it and plug it back in.
Yeah i think you are right, however they just looked too concentric for me to have thought they were defects. im unsure how they connect the layers though.
now that makes sense. I was just assuming this was an artifact left over from reusing portions of the Chameleon tiny/ultra board to make the detector.
Mine does the same ā¦
What range are you sweeping?
My default : 2-27Mhz
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Probably way out of range for Qu charging.
What Iām doing today.
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I always wondered why they chose to display this, it doesnt really DO anything.
I assumed it was a design choice rather than a manufacturing one.
You can see the layers, which is kind of cool and they had real-estate to fill and chose that. I guess thats a good enough reason.
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āWell La-De-Da, look at me, Iām a High Grade PCBā 
This is quite evident
For something so āsimpleā it is a very nice thing to admire, it has many great design aspects and the performance is amazing.
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Oh itās for the designer to use within the ECAD software as a reference. It doesnāt really do much once the board is fabbed. The vast majority of the time a human is thinking about a board is entirely virtual before itās even been made once. The actual population process is mostly automated and most users donāt ālookā at PCBs.
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Youād have to investigate it with a oscilliscope, a VNA wonāt tell you anything useful about that.
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Itās always stuck with meā¦
An EE one told me that, a circuit board that looks good usually works good, and one that looks like junk usually is junk too.
Itās not a law or anything, but itās been amazingly true over time.
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Something tells me that Iām smart enough to design complex PCBs and dumb enough not to get the joke.
Can I get uploaded to a robot body already, and can Amal fix the dumb part?
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Idk, was just the first thing that popped into my head when I read that exchange. Couldnāt help but put a quick edit together. 
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Gosh, I hate taxesā¦ And itās not like that money is going somewhere useful, chances are that all governments are simply burning it in a big fire pit or something.
Yes, I want to move to space or somethingā¦
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