Ordered my MWS NBv2 on Halloween, surprisingly it was delivered on Mon. Nov. 03.
It worked almost flawlessly up until last night. I changed the battery as I normally do when it would get too weak.
(rapid swing sounds, saber turning itself off, etc.) Anyways, after installing the freshly charged battery & tucking
the electronics into the hilt, the speaker started to make this rapid bap-bap-bap kind of noise, just as fast as a
machine gun.
The switch was unresponsive, the led wouldn't ignite, so I completely dismantled the saber, laid the parts on my
table, and tried just connecting the sound card to the battery / speaker. Same result. I've not yet had a chance
to buy a T8 tube guard, as my only option is amazon or evil-bay. (No hardware store in my small town of 2K people and
I cannot justify buying a $2 piece of plastic when the shipping is almost 4x the cost of the item.) I've been getting
by with a makeshift tube I made by cutting open a 1L water bottle, trimming to size, and taping the seam to prevent
shorts/grounding.
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When I said earlier that the sound card worked "almost" flawlessly, there was always one odd glitch where if the saber
had a particularly hard clash, it would shut itself off. But then I could just tap the power switch and it would come
back on as if nothing had happened.
The only change I've made in the config is dropping the volume to 2, as the default level of 4 was just loud enough to
almost hurt my ears.
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