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adersondasilva
02-05-2006, 03:18 PM
Ok, I introduce you my LED saber:

http://img450.imageshack.us/img450/6415/ligadonoclaroslamina0lf.jpg

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/2474/emitteron5zf.jpg

But look what happens when I attach da blade

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2424/ligadocomlaminanoclaro1uj.jpg

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/9562/ligadocomlamina5nk.jpg

This isn't a polyC tube, I know. The lens I'm using is a 60º one.

Is there anything else I can do to make the light go trought all the blade instead changing my blade to a polyC one?

xwingband
02-05-2006, 03:38 PM
Change your optics. 60 is way too wide. Try 5 or 10 degrees. The tube isn't really the problem at all.

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adersondasilva
02-05-2006, 04:12 PM
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by xwingband

Change your optics. 60 is way too wide. Try 5 or 10 degrees. The tube isn't really the problem at all.

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I was really getting worried, check my tube:

http://img450.imageshack.us/img450/43/desligadoclaminanoclaro3bf.jpg

It's totally white.

Where can I get the lens only?

xwingband
02-05-2006, 04:21 PM
Right from Tim in the shop, but since you are international that would probably be silly. The shipping would cost way more than the part itself. I don't know where to point you other than wherever you got the LED.

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LAN-ED-TUL
02-05-2006, 04:25 PM
are you using a star 3 lux lambertian? if so, then get one right here from tim. aw i see xwing beat me to it.

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adersondasilva
02-05-2006, 05:14 PM
If it means a Luxeon 3W, the answer is yep

xwingband
02-05-2006, 05:22 PM
Well we can tell from the pics it's a star mount just from the shape. The easiest way to tell if you have a lambertain or batwing is the LED. If it round it a lambertian and a flat top is a bat wing. The ones Tim sell fit lambertains.

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adersondasilva
02-05-2006, 06:22 PM
Ok, i didn't got ur point [:D]. I added ya on MSN.

Here goes a picture of the LED:

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6467/ledon1xb.jpg

vadeblade
02-06-2006, 11:54 AM
Well, Based on the picture, it looks like there is no optics mounted at all. adersondasilva, you need to purchase optics to shoot the light up the blade. Five or ten degrees spotlight colminator lense, like what Tim sells.

Also, hard to tell if the Luxeon LED is Lambertian or Batwing with the LED on. Take the LED out of the hilt, and take a picture of the LED from a side view with it turned OFF (please remember to use macro on the camera)

Thanks,
-V

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xwingband
02-06-2006, 12:01 PM
No worries vadeblade. I talked to him on MSN. He has optics and it's a Lambertain. I assume he took the optics out to take the picture. The main problem is he's international and getting the parts are a pain.[xx(]

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The Plague
02-06-2006, 02:27 PM
I'm not try'n to take away from tims buisness but, <font color="red">-edited- Then please dont post links to other sites.</font id="red">

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adersondasilva
02-06-2006, 06:55 PM
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by vadeblade

Well, Based on the picture, it looks like there is no optics mounted at all. adersondasilva, you need to purchase optics to shoot the light up the blade. Five or ten degrees spotlight colminator lense, like what Tim sells.

Also, hard to tell if the Luxeon LED is Lambertian or Batwing with the LED on. Take the LED out of the hilt, and take a picture of the LED from a side view with it turned OFF (please remember to use macro on the camera)

Thanks,
-V

Lightsaber Warning Label: "CAUTION: Do NOT attempt to sharpen blade."

http://www.geocities.com/projectstm/lightsaber.html
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Thx... my optics are attached to the blade, cause they look like a little screw, so I pasted it inside the blade, very close from the LED. And, as Xwingband said, It's a lambertain one. thx dude

Erik
02-06-2006, 08:56 PM
Isn't luxeon a company with international distributors for their items? Perhaps using a search engine on Luxeon could give you a local source. Me? I'm sticking to CSS, but I've got the benefit of being only 3 time zones away.

xwingband
02-06-2006, 09:29 PM
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Erik

Isn't luxeon a company with international distributors for their items? Perhaps using a search engine on Luxeon could give you a local source. Me? I'm sticking to CSS, but I've got the benefit of being only 3 time zones away.
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Isn't all of the US 3 time zones away?[:p]

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supertrogdor
03-01-2006, 12:48 PM
if you count hawaii through new york, it is 7-8 timezones depending on daylight savings (hawaii doenst observe it being in the tropics and all)

xwingband
03-01-2006, 04:08 PM
Yup, the conituous US is what I meant really. With Tim in WA even people like me in the east are only 3 times zones away.

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Jedi-Loreen
03-02-2006, 01:04 PM
<font size="3"><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by xwingband

Yup, the conituous US is what I meant really. With Tim in WA even people like me in the east are only 3 times zones away.

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<font color="purple">Ok, the Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Nazi is rearing her ugly head again. </font id="purple">

<font color="purple">That's "contiguous" US</font id="purple">

<font color="blue">con·tig·u·ous
adj.
Sharing an edge or boundary; touching.
Neighboring; adjacent.

Connecting without a break: the 48 contiguous states. </font id="blue">

<font color="purple">Sorry, couldn't resist. [;)]

I'm in So Cal, so I'm in the same time zone as Tim. Maybe. If they have the same stupid Daylight Savings time thing as we do down here, that is.</font id="purple"> </font id="size3">

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xwingband
03-02-2006, 02:25 PM
lol, you like doing that everywhere don't you.[:p] I had forgotten the exact word and mis-spelled it (I'm a weary person at the moment so my grammar is going down the toilet)... but continuous works just as well and it's just tradition. Most don't even know what contiguous means anyway.[:D][:p]

I'll catch you someday here or on TFN and correct you too.[:p]

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supertrogdor
03-02-2006, 04:43 PM
My wife gets on my case for bad grammar and improper word usage, but she was an english major, no offense to the spelling, grammer, and punctuation nazi, but as long as we get the gist of what is trying to be communicated isn't a little bad grammar easy enough to look over, in lieu of the problems trying to be resolved?

bazuka
03-02-2006, 05:04 PM
Man... nothing like a run-on sentence to clear up that whole grammar thing.

[:D] j/k

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LAN-ED-TUL
03-02-2006, 07:55 PM
oh C'mon y'all, caint youse spelz wight? Loreen wilz slams ya ifs youse spellz zit wong! lol just kidding. couldnt resist. my bad.

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xwingband
03-02-2006, 08:59 PM
Guys no worries, Loreen does this. She's a grammar Nazi... I'm not sure if she's ever corrected me at TFN, but I'm not unfamiliar with it.[:D]

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LAN-ED-TUL
03-02-2006, 10:10 PM
i was only kiddin.

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