Sloda Foade
02-10-2016, 06:53 AM
Hi, I am trying to build a MHS v1 lightsaber (on a very tight budget) after 4 or 5 years away from the forum and things have changed quite a bit since I was last on here and built my Adjudicator lightsaber.
I have sort of decided on a basic design (2nd one down in pic) with a choke and crystal chamber. Planning on a Prizm sound card with G/G/W Cree LED, one 18650 Li-ion battery, premium speaker in a v5 speaker mount. I plan on using the acrylic chassis discs to mount the battery and Prizm in the v-grooved section, a 3D printed crystal chamber, one slot to have 2 mom tactile switches for on/off and aux. See below for the pic.
The questions are:
1. If I use the new flat heat sink for the LED, will there be enough room behind the blade holder for cables to go through braid covering through the CC and whatever else is needed there?
2. If I want to use FOC (on white LED) will I need a PC/CF V3 Color Xtender (http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/PCCF-V3-Color-Xtender-P911.aspx) or just a Power Xtender? 2.0 (http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/Power-Xtender-20-P652.aspx) for the white LED (or am I confusing that with the requirements for the NB)? I assume I use std resistor for the Greens in parallel.
3. Assuming I have the recharge/kill port and RICE port in the pommel using the MPS insert style 13 (http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/MPS-insert-style-13-P732.aspx), does this leave enough room for the batt/prizm to fit in the v-grooved section?
Any help would be appreciated, I am not as with it as I was a couple of years ago. I have major Chemo brain and have lost some of the feeling in my fingers so working on this will be a challenge.
Thanks, Sloda Foade
Pic: http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y352/SlodaFoade/Lightsabers/29th%20pass_zpsgrjgpx7c.jpg
I have sort of decided on a basic design (2nd one down in pic) with a choke and crystal chamber. Planning on a Prizm sound card with G/G/W Cree LED, one 18650 Li-ion battery, premium speaker in a v5 speaker mount. I plan on using the acrylic chassis discs to mount the battery and Prizm in the v-grooved section, a 3D printed crystal chamber, one slot to have 2 mom tactile switches for on/off and aux. See below for the pic.
The questions are:
1. If I use the new flat heat sink for the LED, will there be enough room behind the blade holder for cables to go through braid covering through the CC and whatever else is needed there?
2. If I want to use FOC (on white LED) will I need a PC/CF V3 Color Xtender (http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/PCCF-V3-Color-Xtender-P911.aspx) or just a Power Xtender? 2.0 (http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/Power-Xtender-20-P652.aspx) for the white LED (or am I confusing that with the requirements for the NB)? I assume I use std resistor for the Greens in parallel.
3. Assuming I have the recharge/kill port and RICE port in the pommel using the MPS insert style 13 (http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/MPS-insert-style-13-P732.aspx), does this leave enough room for the batt/prizm to fit in the v-grooved section?
Any help would be appreciated, I am not as with it as I was a couple of years ago. I have major Chemo brain and have lost some of the feeling in my fingers so working on this will be a challenge.
Thanks, Sloda Foade
Pic: http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y352/SlodaFoade/Lightsabers/29th%20pass_zpsgrjgpx7c.jpg