multi led hilt system

[marty123]

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sorry for the stupidity but iv'e heard that you can put more than one led in the same handle with a slide switch so you can change the color of the blade without makeing a new hilt, or re building an exisiting led hilt, if this is possible how would it be done and what would need to be done to do it?

[xwingband]

Thanks for switching this to the right forum. I saw the switcharoo.[] I was going to reply then poof it wasn't there.[]

Right now there are three options. The quick connect LEDs Tim now offers, simply switch out the LED. Second, a white LED with the gel filters. Third, what I think you are actually refering to is the RGB LED.

We dicussed it here first:

http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/sa...p?TOPIC_ID=166

There are also threads floating around on them, but that will probably tell you the most.

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[marty123]

thanx xwingband that is what i was looking for so how does it work,,sorry i am very new at this[]

[xwingband]

The RBG is esentially an LED that has three in one (You can see from the one close up that there is 3 of the diodes inside the LEDs dome). A Red, Blue and Green. You can use two three position toggle switches to get the four color combos Tetmatek posted (if I understand what he said correctly). If you wanted to mix and match at different levels of each you'd have to have four mini-potentiometers. While you could theoretically get infinite colors out of it it'd be better to stick to the four since activating more than 1 at different levels is a battery hog from what I hear. Since esentially it is 3 3W LEDs in one running three together would at least cut battery life into a fourth (a half and another half at the third color).

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[marty123]

[8D] thanx much

[ani104]

About the quick contact LEDs, can someone tell me more about them?

All help is appreciated[]

[xwingband]

The quick connects are LEDs using the quick dissconnect wires. Instead of hardwiring the LED in it has a way of coming out with out desoldering...

Then you can have a set of heatsink and LED parts out and switch the colors that way.[] It takes a bit more work to change colors than the colored discs but it keeps the original brightness.

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[Jedi Ranger]

Actually, I think that they are 1w diodes, for a total of 3w.

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[xwingband]

Nope, each individual color is 3W.

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[ani104]

Thanks Xwing[]

One more question, has this been done to an MR saber[?]