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pitboi
07-20-2006, 05:46 AM
does the Luxeon 3w driver work with EL lightsabers and or are you able to manipulate Luxeon 3w driver to work with an EL lightsaber
and can anyone tell me where to find a Luxeon 3w driver and/or one that detects clash, lock, motion, ignition, deactivation, coring and impact

pitboi

xwingband
07-20-2006, 05:55 AM
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by pitboi

does the Luxeon 3w driver work with EL lightsabers and or are you able to manipulate Luxeon 3w driver to work with an EL lightsaber
and can anyone tell me where to find a Luxeon 3w driver

pitboi
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Nope, Luxeons and EL are two different and incompatable technologies.

There is a Luxeon 3W Driver in the store. Click "Click here to enter store" then Navigate on the side LED Products>Hilt Supplies>Electronics & LEDs. There are others out there but this one is specifically made for sabers and based on your question I think I know what you want.

There is NO way to give EL a extension/retraction. The current is applied across the EL wire evenly, at best you could dim the whole blade in and out. You could try banks of EL wire similar to MR with LEDs, but this is hard and would probably make the blade just as fragile as an MR.

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pitboi
07-20-2006, 06:06 AM
thanks for your help

do you think it is possible for me to make a driver

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xwingband
07-20-2006, 06:11 AM
For EL? Probably, but it's not worth it. You still wouldn't be able to get any fancy feature for it based on how EL wire works.

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ryanlb
07-20-2006, 11:36 AM
Is the driver in the store Corbins?

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xwingband
07-20-2006, 11:48 AM
Yes, it is.

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Lord Maul
07-20-2006, 12:16 PM
i didn't know that, i thought tim had his own had his own custom driver

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xwingband
07-20-2006, 12:33 PM
Nope, for those of you that didn't know there are three people that saber enthusiats like to call the "luxeon trinity". These are Alex (UltraSWG), Joe (Corbin_Das) and Tim (Strydur). They all are equally known for doing their thing and often freely share products.

Like the 3W driver here was developed by Corbin (hence it often being called a Corbin or Corbin's driver). Corbin uses the colored disks from here, Ultra uses the MHS for his customs, etc...

It's all pretty friendly on the sharing with no undercutting.[:)]

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Lord Maul
07-20-2006, 12:40 PM
i knew about the trinity but i didn't think that they shared parts. now that you mention it, ultra's 5 watt stunt saber looks like a mhs piece

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ryanlb
07-20-2006, 01:28 PM
I did know that Ultra used the MHS pieces, that's why I bought his stunt saber, it gave me a good place to start building my own custom saber. Now I just need money for the rest of it.

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Lord Maul
07-20-2006, 03:24 PM
did you get the 3 watt or 5

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ryanlb
07-20-2006, 03:40 PM
I got the 3W, with the white LED so I could try out the color disks, I've since got the Lee Filters swatch book, but haven't had time to really go through it.

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Lord Maul
07-20-2006, 04:00 PM
can you post pics?

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xwingband
07-20-2006, 04:06 PM
If you do... please do it in an appropriate area like the lee filters thread.

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pitboi
07-20-2006, 07:06 PM
i have the idea of just making a totally seperate module that just makes the activation/deactivation sounds

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xwingband
07-20-2006, 07:10 PM
You must be confused then as the 3W driver has nothing to do with sound... I was wondering why a question on that was here. The 3W driver is for the LED only. You can interface it with a sound module but alone it just powers the LED.

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pitboi
07-20-2006, 11:15 PM
yeah i know but i meant as like a fade in/out like it starts out dim then gets brighter and brighter

sorry about the misleading info

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Lord Maul
07-20-2006, 11:24 PM
i've seen conversions that do that. looks pretty cool [8D]

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