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Jedi Master
1999 Hasbro Electronic Qui-Gon Jinn Lightsaber board
Sorry for the awkward thread title, but I wanted to be as precise as possible. I just got hold of this, and am rather impressed. The sounds are pretty good, particularly when using a decent speaker. The fire-up/fire-down sound is more like a lock-up sound, but the idle hum is quite good. The clash randomly varies between a simple clash and a clash followed by a motion sound. There is no motion sensor, and therefore no motion sound. This sounds a lot better to me than the generic Jedi Force Action Lightsaber I inquired about here. (In that one, the idle hum sounds more like the rumbling of a massive dynamo than a lightsaber, and the motion sound is abrupt and annoying.)
Anyway, there are several varieties of Hasbro boards, but apart from this thread (which talks about combining it with a Corbin board), this particular variation hasn't been discussed much, so I thought I would add a basic wiring schematic and labeled photo of the board.
In one of the threads about Hasbro boards, someone said running a pre-LED Hasbro board with 4AAA batteries would fry it, but this one (which came with a generic flashlight bulb) seems to be working fine with the 4.8 volts coming from my battery pack.
On fire-up and fire-down, the light blinks three times, which some people might find annoying. I'm sure there's a way to bypass the board and hook the light up directly to the battery pack, but that's beyond my electronics knowledge (which is kindergarten level). Maybe someone could post a schematic for that kind of setup here.
BTW, the hilt on this product is surprisingly nice, and fairly true to real thing. If you want a lightweight hilt to hang from your belt for a costume, this is perfect. Earlier, I had bought a Rubies' Qui-Gon saber toy for precisely that purpose, but it looked awful. I now have a beautiful Qui-Gon saber custom made for me by DoClo, but I'm going to hang on to this hilt for possible costuming purposes.
Now I'd like to come up with a schematic for this that includes a charge port. If someone beats me to it, by all means please post it here.
P.S.: I thought I had overpaid for this (I got it for 1800 yen, or $18.90 U.S., on Yahoo! Auctions Japan), but I see one going for $34.98 U.S. on Amazon.com, and another on eBay U.K. with a Buy It Now price of £14.99 ($23.08 U.S.), so I guess I did pretty well.
Last edited by Matt Thorn; 11-27-2008 at 09:33 PM.
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Jedi Master
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Jedi Master
Questions about variations
Questions:
1) I'd like to use this same board for my next saber, but I'd like to bypass the board and directly connect the LED to the battery pack, so that I won't have the annoying blinking on fire-up and fire-down. How would I wire it?
2) I'd like to add an accent light. I'm assuming it would need the appropriate resistor. How would I wire the accent light in?
After searching the message boards here and over at fx-sabers.com, I have a vague idea how these things might be done, but I'm not certain.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Jedi Master
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Jedi Master
Still talking to myself here.
I'm wondering how I could fit a Corbin board into this wiring setup. I've seen plenty of diagrams for the Corbin with an MR board, and with the "Force Action"-type Hasbro board, but not with this kind of board, which is (to my eyes) very different from the Force Action version.
I know it would be easier to simply get a UltraSound 2.0, but I have one, and frankly I find it a bit buggy. I don't know if it's because I'm using a mechanical plunger switch, but once in a while it just shuts off completely when I tap the switch for the lock-up sound. (Yes, I have read all the threads about the US 2.0 quirks, and the kill switch on my recharge port has solved most of them.) So I'm thinking about combining this Hasbro board (I like it so much I now have four) with a Corbin board (which I don't have yet).
I'll try to think up my own solution, but I'm posting this anyway, on the off chance that an experienced sabersmith actually reads this post and can give me a quick answer. Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Board Lurker
Hi, sorry for bothering.
I'm triying to wire a similar soundboard (Force Action) Hasbro Mace Windu lightsaber. The scheme is very hepfull. But it is not clear to me how solve the led problem (the current from the soundboard is not enough to power the led). I tried to add a PNP transistor (TIP42C). I connected, as suggested in others threads, the lamp - from the soundboard to the base of the transistor; the battery positive to the emitter and the led positive to the collector, but it doesn“t work. I have tried several combinations with the same result.
Can sombedy give me some tip in wiring the transistor?
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