JTP
07-25-2017, 05:50 PM
Hello friends,
I'm moving on to my MKII saber now and I've upgraded from NB to CF for this one. This is both exciting and challenging as I'm learning a new board from scratch. I've done my research here on the forums and read the manual cover to cover a few dozen times but I still find myself with a few questions.
My main question refers to how to wire the AV switches. This is probably very simple to most people but I've seen conflicting wire diagrams for the positive LED wire and its gotten me a bit bamboozled. If you look in the attachments, (using Imgur for links: http://imgur.com/a/N56HA) you'll see two wiring diagrams created by different users of this forum. What I notice is that the first diagram has the LED Pos. lines (with resistors) going toward the accent pads in the middle/right of the board. In the second picture however, the LED Pos line is being soldered to a pad located up and to the left from the Main, Accent and GRND Pads. The second setup was going to be what I planned on doing, wiring the LED pos from both of my switches in parallel and soldering to that pad to the upper left.
My question is, are there any benefit to using one pad more than the other that I'm missing in the manual? For clarification, I want the LEDs of my switches to be on at all times unless the kill-key is inserted. That way it looks really nice on display or on my belt at conventions.
Other than that, I'm pretty comfortable with the rest of my personal wiring diagram. I was planning on doing a Crystal Chamber for this one but I simply ran out of room due to that 7.4V battery (I know there's a hack but I don't want to sacrifice power).
Thanks for any and all replies!
MTFBWY
I'm moving on to my MKII saber now and I've upgraded from NB to CF for this one. This is both exciting and challenging as I'm learning a new board from scratch. I've done my research here on the forums and read the manual cover to cover a few dozen times but I still find myself with a few questions.
My main question refers to how to wire the AV switches. This is probably very simple to most people but I've seen conflicting wire diagrams for the positive LED wire and its gotten me a bit bamboozled. If you look in the attachments, (using Imgur for links: http://imgur.com/a/N56HA) you'll see two wiring diagrams created by different users of this forum. What I notice is that the first diagram has the LED Pos. lines (with resistors) going toward the accent pads in the middle/right of the board. In the second picture however, the LED Pos line is being soldered to a pad located up and to the left from the Main, Accent and GRND Pads. The second setup was going to be what I planned on doing, wiring the LED pos from both of my switches in parallel and soldering to that pad to the upper left.
My question is, are there any benefit to using one pad more than the other that I'm missing in the manual? For clarification, I want the LEDs of my switches to be on at all times unless the kill-key is inserted. That way it looks really nice on display or on my belt at conventions.
Other than that, I'm pretty comfortable with the rest of my personal wiring diagram. I was planning on doing a Crystal Chamber for this one but I simply ran out of room due to that 7.4V battery (I know there's a hack but I don't want to sacrifice power).
Thanks for any and all replies!
MTFBWY