Hi guys

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, as I’ve never been on this part of the forums before, I’ve not really been interested in EL sabers before!

Anyway, at the beginning of April I purchased a lightsabers off eBay and it just arrived last week, there was a hold up at customs and I had to pay an import tax before they would deliver it! It was described as ‘STAR WARS LIGHTSABER CUSTOM MADE IN DISPLAY CASE NEW’ here’s the pics from the auction







I recognised it straight away as being a parks M2 (http://www.parksabers.com/malestrom.html) but it was missing the el wire from the top bit of the hilt and it didn’t have the blade with it, so I just assumed it was just the shell, plus the claws weren’t the normal aluminium finish they look to be almost rusty, they are in fact red as is the blade holder! I always liked the M2 (it was the inspiration for my own clawed luxeon saber.) but I would never have bought a new one, not at $300 anyway. So I bidded on it and won it.

I planned on converting it to a luxeon saber, I was going to re-use most of the saber but replace the 3/4" blade holder with a 1" blade holder from here and then attach the claws to it somehow. But when I eventually received it I noticed the switch was still wired up so I removed the bottom cap and looked inside, there was still a 9v battery in it. I replaced the dead battery with a new one and the switch light up. I took it apart to have a better look at it and all the wires are still connected. But there are no cut wires so I assume that this hilt didn’t have the EL wire on the outside. (does anyone know if they made ones without the el wire?)

My (main) question is, is there anyway to test to see if it works without having a blade. I don’t want to purchase a blade and have it shipped out here to the UK to find out that it doesn’t work. I thought about connected headphones to it using the right sized plug to see if it made any sound but I wasn’t sure if:
a) it would work and
b) if it would damage either the headphones or the saber electronics

If someone can let me know that would be great. If it does work I’ll be buying the blade from here rather than from parks, their cheaper from here and I don’t like the sound of the paper el sheets in the parks blades.

Cheers