Pololu wiring diagram?

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Well I received my Pololu board today and I already installed it into my Graflex saber. I LOVED it. It is so small and simple and it works perfectly. I used a extremely small tactile switch (which was the hardest part of building the whole saber) and put it up under the red button on the Graflex and hooked it up with my MR Anakin sound board and it worked great. My only thing I have to work on now is the clash sensor isn't as responsive as I hoped. It is just floating in the hilt and I think if I mount it on something so it can feel the vibrations it will work much better. So that is next. I also need a speaker holder. For now I just hot glued it to my battery holder. It isn't nearly as loud as my MR ESB Vader so I am hoping it will be louder once I put the speaker holder on the speaker so it might direct the sound more out of the bottom through the holes I drilled.

Oh, can you use a Pololu board with just a battery pack and a LED? No soundboard? I want to use a momentary switch on my little boys saber and he doesn't have a soundboard in his and I think the Pololu board would be great if it would work.

Well thanks for the help.

You can use a pololu board in a soundless stunt, but use the other version for the higher voltage, the SV version instead of the LV.

For your clash sensor in your Graflex, try hot gluing it to the actual sound board. I do that on all of the MR boards I use, an it work very well. Another option you have if you want to try it, is to rewire the board completely, like shown in this topic:
http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...ad.php?t=10789

For your speaker, you can try making a resonator for it using a 3/4" pvc coupler from the hardware store. The ones my local one carries have a beveled edge that allows the speaker to fit right into it making it easy to hot glue it in place. I have an old topic around here somewhere that shows this.....Here's one: http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...ead.php?t=3059 Here's a better one (Wow, all the way back to my first ever build topic!) :http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...?t=2190&page=2


I also just used one of these in a Qui-gon Jinn replica saber I have running an MR board and a plastic Radio Shack momentary switch, and it works like a charm! Thanks to member Troyo for posting this find in the first place!