Finished (kinda) Amber Saber

**daxkai** · 03-10-2009, 09:12 PM

Hey these are a couple pictures of my first Luxeon Build.

Its all MHS parts with some accent screws on the Emitter.

Latching guarded ignition button.

Couldn't afford Erv's Crystal Focus ATM, So I'm running off of a 1000 mA BuckPuck, But I'll be upgrading to a 1400 mA (two 700 mA wired together)
next paycheck.

I altered the film in the blade to make it a little more evenly lit, but the Led needs to be driven better before I can cut out that drop off.

I plan on doing some more customization on it, mainly adding color to the grips.

The current plan is to put black in the grooves and add some bright golden brass accents maybe.

Hope you guys like it

**FenderBender** · 03-10-2009, 09:17 PM

Did you use Poly P in that blade?? If not THAT's what you need. Though amber isn't really impressive in terms of brightness to me anyway. Good build, now get started on the next one

**Hasid Lafre** · 03-10-2009, 09:26 PM

Yes add some polyP to the blade.

**Rhyen Skytracker** · 03-10-2009, 09:28 PM

Is there a good source oline to get the polyp?

**Allaerra Secura** · 03-10-2009, 10:03 PM

We usually get it at a local craft store.

**vargose** · 03-11-2009, 06:43 AM

walmart or hobby lobby have it

**Novastar** · 03-19-2009, 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by daxkai

...I'm running off of a 1000 mA BuckPuck, But I'll be upgrading to a 1400 mA (two 700 mA wired together)...

Regarding this "additive" buckpucks thing... it's been talked about all over the place here on TCSS and... personally I am STILL uncertain of the definitive answer about it.

In other words--as far as *I* know--simply wiring two pucks together to play the "1000mA + 1000mA = 2000mA" (or whatever) game... does not really work. The short of it is... (hopefully to quote Eandori somewhat well) ... "the pucks end up sort of 'fighting' each other".

Again, I don't know this for certain, but... before at least a half dozen folks out there start doing buckpuck addition, I think we'd better confirm with MM readings that doing this WILL yield positive results. Or whatever--basically get results from it, heheh!

I also imagine that the battery setup will affect it quite a bit.

Sorry to de-rail, but... it's been on my mind, and I've literally seen like 6 posts of people saying "I'm gonna do 700mA puck + another for the Lux III!!! Woo-hoo! 1400mA, oh yeah..." ... and I don't even think anyone's even making multi-meter readings to confirm.

**Matt Thorn** · 03-19-2009, 01:59 AM

Originally Posted by Novastar

Regarding this "additive" buckpucks thing... it's been talked about all over the place here on TCSS and... personally I am STILL uncertain of the definitive answer about it.

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Sorry to de-rail, but... it's been on my mind, and I've literally seen like 6 posts of people saying "I'm gonna do 700mA puck + another for the Lux III!!! Woo-hoo! 1400mA, oh yeah..." ... and I don't even think anyone's even making multi-meter readings to confirm.

I know I for one remain confused. Maybe we should start a "How to control current" thread. I'm still trying to figure out how to wire a color-changing saber so that each LED in a given configuration is getting the right amount of current.