multi led hilt system

[marty123]

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sorry for the stupidity but iv'e heard that you can put more than one led in the same handle with a slide switch so you can change the color of the blade without makeing a new hilt, or re building an exisiting led hilt, if this is possible how would it be done and what would need to be done to do it?

[xwingband]

Thanks for switching this to the right forum. I saw the switcharoo.[;)] I was going to reply then poof it wasn't there.[:p]

Right now there are three options. The quick connect LEDs Tim now offers, simply switch out the LED. Second, a white LED with the gel filters. Third, what I think you are actually refering to is the RGB LED.

We dicussed it here first:

http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/sabers/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=166

There are also threads floating around on them, but that will probably tell you the most.

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[marty123]

thanx xwingband that is what i was looking for so how does it work,,sorry i am very new at this[:D]

[xwingband]

The RBG is esentially an LED that has three in one (You can see from the one close up that there is 3 of the diodes inside the LEDs dome). A Red, Blue and Green. You can use two three position toggle switches to get the four color combos Tetmatek posted (if I understand what he said correctly). If you wanted to mix and match at different levels of each you'd have to have four mini-potentiometers. While you could theoretically get infinite colors out of it it'd be better to stick to the four since activating more than 1 at different levels is a battery hog from what I hear. Since esentially it is 3 3W LEDs in one running three together would at least cut battery life into a fourth (a half and another half at the third color).

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[marty123]

[8D] thanx much

[ani104]

About the quick contact LEDs, can someone tell me more about them?

All help is appreciated[:)]

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[xwingband]

The quick connects are LEDs using the quick dissconnect wires. Instead of hardwiring the LED in it has a way of coming out with out desoldering...

Then you can have a set of heatsink and LED parts out and switch the colors that way.[:)] It takes a bit more work to change colors than the colored discs but it keeps the original brightness.

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[Jedi Ranger]

Actually, I think that they are 1w diodes, for a total of 3w.

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[xwingband]

Nope, each individual color is 3W.

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[ani104]

Thanks Xwing[:)]

One more question, has this been done to an MR saber[?]

[LAN-ED-TUL]

yep, a vader MR was setup with a rgb led.

You dont know the POWER, of the dark side...

[Jedi Ranger]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by xwingband

Nope, each individual color is 3W.

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WOW, sweet! The last I read, was that those 3-in-1 dealies were limited to 1w per diode. Now that they are 3w each, I'm going to find one for myself, I think!

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[ani104]

yep, a vader MR was setup with a rgb led.

You dont know the POWER, of the dark side...

I am talking about quick connect LEDs [;)]

[UltraSWG]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by xwingband

Nope, each individual color is 3W.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

I hate to bring the bad news, but that isn't accurate. According to the ProLight 3W RGB Data Sheet found here:

http://www.led-bulbs.com/html/prolight/3WRGB.pdf

Each color inside the 3w RGB is rated at 350ma (just like a 1watt Luxeon), which indicates that each color is, in-fact, a 1w diode.

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[james3]

Thanks for clearing that up Ultra, when I looked at getting one of these I saw those specs and thought the same thing but I figured I may be missing something.

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[xwingband]

Sorry, I was just going off a statement of Gelu's that must have misunderstood. Little deceptive to call it a 3W then... bummer.

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[LAN-ED-TUL]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ani104

yep, a vader MR was setup with a rgb led.

You dont know the POWER, of the dark side...

I am talking about quick connect LEDs [;)]
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i was refering to martys post.




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[Eclipse]

well hows the light coming from a 1 watt anywho?? I was also thinking of what Xwing said about using four mini-potentiometers... first why 4? next now that is known that its 1 watt per led iy wouldnt be such a battery hog now would it? the other thought has anyone used a uv luxeon??

[james3]

:?:

I am at a loss here.

[xwingband]

well hows the light coming from a 1 watt anywho?? I was also thinking of what Xwing said about using four mini-potentiometers... first why 4? next now that is known that its 1 watt per led iy wouldnt be such a battery hog now would it? the other thought has anyone used a uv luxeon??

Four pots because I happen to have an RGBY instead of an RGB. Each pot will control a seperate color.

It'd be a little more of a battery hog running at 350mA each... not much though.

[joe104]

wait about the rgb led do you have to have 3 switches for it? and if you dont have them what color would come out? does anybody know?