My first build... help please

[Silver Serpent]

What you listed earlier for electronics looks correct. Again, be sure to get the correct mA buckpuck for your LED color. The Reds and Amber need 700mA, all other colors use 1000mA.

[Hordriss]

Great, will I need anything to hold things in place inside or should it be ok loose?

[DarkarNights]

Loose is not ok. You want to secure your parts inside so they don't rattle around. How you go about that is up to you and can be as simple as a piece of foam or as complicated as a custom machined chassis. Some people here have used objects ranging from M&M Minis tubes, to mini flashlight rubber bodies, to carved up pieces of PVC pipe to secure their components.

[Hordriss]

Noted.

The button clip won't work, there's nowhere for it to go because of the screw on the pommel and the black rings round the main tube... I think it's back to my insert with a loop idea unless I add the button near the other end, opposite the switch but aren't they generally worn hanging from the belt by the pommel end?

[Hordriss]

Solved the clip problem using the speaker holes round the base of the big spike and a key ring hoop, it looks quite professional if I say so myself and I'm not likely to get around to doing the sound yet, if ever.

Just totalled up the cost for making it light up... while the prices are very fair as I'm living on my dissability allowence I can't really stretch to it, especially with the postage to the UK.

The plan: sell some stuff on eBay, save up, come back to it later.

Anakin: "I say patience..."

[DarkarNights]

I don't understand why there wouldn't be room for the covertec button on the hilt, just above the pommel? You would have to tap a hole of course.

[Hordriss]

Well it would if the hole also went through the screw part of the pommel.

[Silver Serpent]

Noted.

The button clip won't work, there's nowhere for it to go because of the screw on the pommel and the black rings round the main tube... I think it's back to my insert with a loop idea unless I add the button near the other end, opposite the switch but aren't they generally worn hanging from the belt by the pommel end?

Generally, yes a saber is hung by the pommel end. I have seen several done the other way, especially when there's no convenient location to place the button pommel-side. It will not adversely affect your ability to draw your weapon in either case.

If you have a solution you're happy with, stick with it. You can always do it differently on another saber.