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Many people use the "Smart Charger" sold at this store.

Nice saber! It's awesome how bright the LEDEngin GG dies are. What blade is on that?

Hi 174fps. It's linked at the end of the first post in this thread. Here's the link again.

http://www.plecterlabs.com/Media/Tutorials/PowerXtenderHacks/DirectDriveWithPetitCrouton.jpg

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Thanks for all the fantastic advice and tutorials all of you have posted. Based on everything that everyone's posted, I've put together a wiring diagram for my first saber project.

I'm planning on...

Hi FenderBender! Thanks again for this amazing tutorial! I'm working on my wiring diagram to plan out my first saber, and this guide has been phenomenally helpful!



I'm not sure precisely what...

That's what I thought, but the line about the star pads being "awesome heatsinks on their own" confused me. Thanks for clarifying!

Thanks for the great thread! It's really helping a lot for my saber planning. There's just one thing that seems a bit ambiguous to me and I want to be sure I understand.



Do you mean to say...

That's amazing! I'd love to get more details of how you made that blade look so awesome. You said there are 84 LEDs in there, but what size and kind are they? Thick or thin wall tube? What diffuser...

I'm thinking of doing a Luke ROTJ "Death Star" outfit. I found some great photos of the original costume at various places online. They look like 40's era German officer's jackboots, in the "So I see...

Which LEDs are you using in the blade? They look fantastic, the color is excellent!

Hey, thanks for experimenting with the colored polyc! They look fantastic.

Has anyone tried them with an LED string? I was thinking a string in the safety green would give a look very close to...

Thanks for your feedback everyone! It's really helpful to get an idea of what some of the challenges with a good looking telescoping saber are. I haven't given up on the idea yet, but given all of...

Has anyone tried building a telescoping blade with higher quality parts? If it's been tried and still looks like a cheap toy I can accept that.

Obviously I have yet to build a lightsaber so I...

Like many of you probably did, I started looking into building a saber when I saw some of my friends playing around with the cheap plastic toys and thought "I can do better than that". I've looked...