orange blade

[darth ney]

can anyone tell me the best way to make an orange blade.if you have pics of how each one looks it will help.
do you think the new tri-lux will do the job?thanx for help.

[xwingband]

Moved to here. Ideally the LED blade colors forum is a gallery forum too.

The truest orange color you will get is from any RGB system. The easiest would be a white with filter. Next would be the plain prolight solution.

Obviously the brightest option would be the tri-lux as it's 3 LEDs as opposed to the 3 1W's, but it's not really available. It's still a development thing. You won't be getting to use that for a while.

[darth ney]

thanx for moving it.now where do i get an RGB led from, and how would i wire it up with sound? do you know about how long it will be before we all can buy the tri lux?

[Marsupial]

Depending how orange you want your blade to be...

Luxeon do have "amber" which is the orangish color used for circulation lights.

I have one and believe it looks orange ennough.





in the end, its up to you.


I hope you find this info useful.

[darth ney]

yes an amber would work but how would i get it as bright as it can go? i would not hook sound to it i would keep the sound and light seperate and each would have its own power source.but i want it as bright as i can get it.can a tri-lux do 3 ambers?

[SilentBob501]

Darth Ney, this is a subject that I can whole-heartedly relate to. I, myself, wanted to make my first saber have an orange blade. I started with a 3w Red-Orange LED. Its kinda orange, but mostly it was reddish. I then moved on to a 3w white with lee filters, I didnt really like the orange options. So finally, on a whim, I decided to buy a 3w amber, which I had previously dismissed as too yellow from its pictures. But I gotta tell you, the color I get from my 3w amber is the most satisying orange lighted blade I have yet found.

[vortextwist]

I hear that. I converted my vader with a 3 watt amber, It looks pretty sweet.

[darth ney]

what is the max brightness an amber will go? and yes from the pics it does look more yellow than orange.but i think i will give it a go so i can see how it looks in person.

[Lord Maul]

pics almost always distort the colors. on ultra's site he has something called fire orange. that is amber. his pics are really good and they show the true color

[darth ney]

ok i was trying to figure out what color of led it was that he is using because i really liked the color he used in that pic