Crystal Focus TROUBLESHOOTING thread...

[eastern57]

The whole thing with that is: yes, you shouldn't have to -- but it does work. That's all I'm going to say on this subject.

[Hootini]

The whole thing with that is: yes, you shouldn't have to -- but it does work. That's all I'm going to say on this subject.

Agreed!!!

[valeon]

But yeah, I'm at a loss. I just want this freakin thing to work.

[valeon]

I'm at the point of giving up, anyone want to buy a CF?

[eastern57]

Hey guy - don't give up... and you'll regret selling it Erv is back in action, now that his move is slowing down a little - maybe he can help you out. Email him and see what he can offer.

[Novastar]

Valeon... so this is the default sound package? With absolutely no edits whatsoever to things?

If you haven't tried that... give it a shot.

I'm doing my best--troubleshooting via "invisibility" has never been one of my strong suits, heheheh

[valeon]

Only things edited are switch to 2, for my momentaries, and the voltage for the LED to 65 for a lux 3 red.

[erv]

one of the main difference between 2.x and 3.x is the reset of the board. You have to ensure that the board power totally goes down before powering it up again, get the right reset.
It means :
- that if you plug then remove the kill key immediatly, even on a working saber, it does not work, especially if the luxeon was off. The power supply capacitor stores voltage and since the board is taking very low current in idle mode, the capacitor will take like 1 or 2 sec to discharge. Then you can remove the kill key.

- if everything worked fine before then now It's in the hilt and does not work, it's "shoving the whole thing in" that is the problem.

usual questions :
- is the luxeon backplate isolated from the rest of the saber (using thermal tape or cool tape, NOT grease).
- which color is the luxeon

if the saber doesn't reset properly, it's because the power is never really "cut". Defective recharge port (remove the port, wire a rocker switch and test), grounding of various sort creating a ground path : the battery ground is making its way to the board despite the recharge port properly cuts the power.
Email me so that we can try to troubleshoot this,
don't give up,
don't sell your CF,
and finish what you started (did you really consider building a saber without sweating ? )

Erv' - yes I'm baaaaaaack.... oooohoooohhhoohé, oooohoooohhhoohé, back in black.... yes I'm baaackkkk in BLACK !

[killphil]

lol. johnny cash w/ a lightsaber! Scary thought, indeed...

[valeon]

It hasn't been installed yet, just a test fire. That's a good suggestion, but I had it powered down for a while. I still don't understand the static LED and the sound cutting out. It did this before too, on the first fire. I'm so confused!