Nano Biscotte First Wiring Diagram

[Xonos]

Hey everyone,

I'm Xonos, brand new to the forum. I read everything I could get my hands on regarding building and wiring sabers on this forum and out of that I cooked up a wiring diagram for the Nano Biscotte board. It's my first diagram and saber build but I think I have everything right. Does anyone see anything glaringly wrong/something that could fry any of my components that I overlooked? I should probably mention I'm brand-new to electronics as well.

About the switch-I decided to try and wire a red-illuminated momentary AV switch although the NB board doesn't explicitly say it's wired for it. I'm running it straight off the battery (with a resistor of course) because I don't want to wire the LED leads to the dedicated LED spot on the board and have it be permanently activated and run down the battery. Is this a good idea?

[Silver Serpent]

If you wire the switch LED directly to the battery, it *will* be permanently activated and run down the battery.

You can attach it to the dedicated LED pad on the board, but just install a recharge port and use a kill-key to cut off the switch LED when it's not in use.

[Xonos]

I was afraid of that. So there's no way I could wire the LED in the switch to only illuminate when the switch activates the circuit? If not it's really no skin off my back to just have a bland AV switch.

I want to stay away from a recharge port for this build mainly because I think it's a little too complex for my first build (again, brand new to electronics) and I don't have a problem with taking apart the saber to charge the battery. I'm thinking of after this one upgrading to a PC board and maybe including one there, but for right now I want to not include it if possible.

What I really need/want to know is if the resistor values I currently have will work. The whole "NB drives at 2A yet the LED runs off 1A" yet requires comparatively little resistance (The NB manual says to just alter the drive parameters which I plan on doing and calculated in the diagram) doesn't sit right with me for some reason.

[Forgetful Jedi Knight]

You could wire it off of the main LED, you would just have to resistor it properly.

[Xonos]

Huh..I didn't think of that. Thanks for the idea. Should I wire it in series or parallel?

[Silver Serpent]

Accent LEDs (like switch LEDs) need to be wired parallel to the main blade LED.

For resistors, the 82ohm you have for the accent LED is correct. You can also use a 1ohm, 2W resistor for the main LED as opposed to tweaking the drive setting on the NB.