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Thread: Best way to make a violet/Purple blade?

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    Default Best way to make a violet/Purple blade?

    I know that white blades and purple filters work... with less brightness. I've also seen the leds with 3 colors (including blue and red obviously) and 4 colored ones (again, red and blue) from the website that sells the rebel leds. While I'm partially... well... partial, to having the blade be able to switch between this purple and a red one, if its easiest to only have one color of these two then purple will most likely be my priority :P. So, help a noob out, what do people recomend for purple?

    *Note I have been doing a lot of research over the past few months about this project I've embarked on. Only reason I say this, its a common response I get here :P but seriously I have an... admittedly not final but existent idea of what I'm going for

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    Well, Red and Royal Blue = purple, and Red is Red. So I would say get a trip-Rebel Red/Green/Royal Blue. However, it also depends on what card you use as well.
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    um... Card? If you mean sound... there might not be

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nerdicus View Post
    um... Card? If you mean sound... there might not be
    Yes, card as in "sound card". You may want to decide what else will be in the saber, and THEN we can see what your options will be.
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    Point taken. TO THE DRAWING BOARD... would a sound card be necessary for this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nerdicus View Post
    Point taken. TO THE DRAWING BOARD... would a sound card be necessary for this?
    From what it sounds like you want to do, I would highly recommend it.
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    If you want purple you don't have to have a sound board at all. A RGB led will work for this. Depending on the battery pack you will need proper resistors. Resistor the Blue based on the forward voltage. Resistor the red more than the forward voltage (higher ohm than the calculation requires) otherwise you will get too much red in the mix and it will be fuchsia. You will have to play with resistors to get the mix you want.

    If you don't want a soundboard, then you may want to wire the LEDs in parallel with each die individually resistored. You could wire 2 switches (one for blue, one for red). With that you could make it blue, red, or purple.
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    You can make purple using resiators but you asked in you post the `best` way to make purple. You should really think about getting a sound board that has RICE so you can tune your purple. Some people like a more pinkish purple, some bluer. With RICE you can really dial in the shade you want. And i find a tri with a royal blue and a red work better than regular blue and red.

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    Is there any way to make it with the MWS stuff? Again, without the whole White/Discs thing.
    Last edited by Nerdicus; 11-29-2014 at 07:29 PM.

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    That would require a custom wiring of the LED. You'd need to contact the store first.
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