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I too like my sabers to be very bright. For my uses, they need to at least last 1 hour if not more. If I can get 2-4 hours of runtime, I'm happy. But if that sacrifices brightness, I normally push...

I'm a little disappointed with the lack of a clear instruction manual for this board. Some basic questions SHOULD BE clearly listed. Like for the accent LEDs, what voltage does it drive them at on...

Repair a damaged trace? Very likely I can fix that yes.

I would need to see exactly what trace it is, but that SHOULD BE do-able. If I can see the contacts clearly on the board I need to...

Whoops sorry Tim, my bad. If you want to take this post down or move it to a different forum please feel free.

Yeah, I'll be helping Erv' assemble Crystal Focus boards which will certainly help...

Hi there Saber Smiths!

I just wanted to get the official word out now, my new Lightsaber repair business is up and running! As of this moment, Saber Tech Shop is the only official repair business...

The best yellow luxeon style I have ever seen in person was a white P4 with a yellow filter. No amber I ever had (K2, Lux III, etc.) ever compared to the white P4 with a yellow filter.

Beautiful Sabers!!

I think the Hyperdyne 2.0 driver board was just finished and probably has flicker features for LED string blades. It's probably meant to interface to a specific LED ladder type of setup though.
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That God :)

I just got that message when trying to open a page at the TCSS store. Is it true? Is everything ok?

http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/StoreClosed.aspx

That looks like a perfect first step for you! Great reccomendation Erv'!

I think learning something that is complicated is always about passion. You have to really WANT to learn that new thing...

Good call Erv'!

The FET solution I was suggesting would be using the FET's as a gate for the power provided by the MR board to drive the LED. But, truth be told, the MR board is a poor solution...

Sorry for going a bit deep on my last replies. I'm trying to gauge where your experience in electronics and programming currently is... so I can write up responses that will make sense. I undershot...

Great thread so far. Definitely moving forward with purpose now. :)

You actually already nailed the first blink-unit that I was thinking of... a 555 timer circuit set up with very low speed...

Hi there,

Seems to me there is a bit of a difference of scope in this thread. Matt Thorn is asking a fairly simple test the waters type of question, and Erv' (being the generous and very literal...

Sounds like we got lucky, that capacitor is working with many switches that were too noisy before. It's not a "good" work around, but if it's low cost and effective, that's fine for now :)

I'm sure it can be... but that's difficult to say when we are only armed with a DMM to test continuity. My first thought would be to probe around the board while off to find out which other nodes...

That's a bit overkill for my tastes... except... maybe... I can see that being cool if you were in the middle of a blade lockup with another Jedi. Short of that, it would feel like too much.

LOL no offense taken! I don't know why anybody would assume that since I posted an electrical solution to bouncy switches that I would be "against" other forms of working around the problem. :)
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Here you go, this is just one side. (all you need for an US 2.0 with the current setup)

For VCC, you will want to use the same regulated voltage that the PIC Microcontroller is using. I have not...

Kant Lavar, Of course you are not a dumb person and I wish I could make more of this stuff simpler. At a certain point, I just can't though. I could spend more time explaining why a pair of NAND...

Glad you guys are happy with the fix. Thanks for the raised glasses :)


Nice catch, and exactly right. I was thinking that but failed to put it down. The most simple way is definitely to...

Here you go guys... I drew up exactly how to wire the exact NAND chip I referred you to sold by Digikey. I took a screenshot of the chip description in the spec document, then drew on wires to help...

No, just a capacitor is not a good solution. What you will likely find is that if your circuit worked without a cap, it will work with. If it failed without a cap, it will fail with. If you use a...

This page talks all about doing it via hardware, and even some software methods. The one I used to use in College is using the 2 NAND gates (listed on page 11). We also used to use the D-Flip Flop...