MR board + Makoto LED ??

[Badkitty]

i have been reading soo many thread my eyes hurt. I, for the most part , love trying to find the info myself because i have found numerous threads with other important info i hadn't thought about , but i did NOT find anything on if i can power a string of makoto's LED with a 2005 MR Anakin Skywalker ROTS board?

I picked up the MR saber today off craigslist for $40 , beat up but works great. I do however have my own saber i've been working on with a Blue P4 and eco board. i want to scrap with p4 and eco board in favor of a LED string and the MR board.

Because i found some 8mm Blue Led , 35,000mcd typ - 40k mcd max , 35degree view angle . 3.6v- 3.8v max , 20ma forward current for super cheap. 8mm is perfect fit inside the foam from the MR saber( i have a 10mm led thats pretty snug so 8mm is perfect) . So i was thinking maybe 60 of these in my string.

[Azmaria Dei]

Slothfurnace's ROTJ Luke reveal in the gallery is the one you want to look at. also look over on nonentity.com for the full build - that's Sloth's website.

as for the MR board itself, they're pretty versatile - most people run a 3-5W high power LED off of them these days but they were made for string LED blades... 10 or so per segment if i remember right.

[Jedi-Loreen]

A 35° viewing angle doesn't sound like enough for this application, though.

But I could be wrong.

[makototsai]

hi~

I use 60° 5mm Makoto' saber led in my blade.

if you use the MR board to drive the v3 blade, that is brighter then original, but the power(current) is not enough to drive v3 blade of 100% power.

in my test before:
Blue V3 blade with MR board that is brighter then original about 30%.
Green V3 blade with MR board that is brighter then original about 40%.
Purple V3 blade with MR board that is brighter then original about 70%.
Red V3 blade with MR board that is brighter then original about 85%.

[Badkitty]

ya , actually i have sloth's website bookmarked on that build. i just went thru it again and didnt see him state what he used to power the 90 Leds. The MR i have uses 64. Wasnt sure how many the others use.

[Azmaria Dei]

not to kinda brush you off or anything, but Sloth and Makototsai are pretty much the only two that i know of that have all but perfected the LED string blades. (i say 'all but perfected' because the sun is still barely brighter ^_^)

Makototsai, didn't you use a couple strings in some of your blades? how on earth did you power that much, anyway? custom driver?