Originally Posted by
Tom Tilmon
That looks right to me from what I can see, but the letters are really too small, as are some of the wiring routes for my eyes to see. I wire my chambers like this as well. The biggest problem with wiring like this is that Vader's Vault is now installing the data resistor in their blades. Whatever VV does, often becomes the industry standard, and many people are buying their blades from VV. So, because you're making your own blade here, and your data resistor for the blade and cc LED is in the hilt, you have no issues. However, if you have a data resistor in the hilt and use a VV blade, depending upon the board, the blade data may have too much resistance.
I'm currently experimenting with different strength resistors in the data line to see what works. Plecter suggests 330-470 ohm resistors on the data line. Some installers have used no resistors; however, then you run a higher risk of burning that first pixel. Right now, I'm messing around with installing a 100 ohm resistor in hilt prior to CC led (when I have the crystal chamber in parallel to the blade), so the blade may have a total resistance of 570 ohms. Those seem to be working ok. I wish VV would drop down to 330 ohms in their blade resistors, that way, if we used 100 ohm in the hilt to defend our crystal chamber data line, then the total data line resistance on the main blade would be 430 ohms.
Some say that the level of resistor on the data isn't as critical as first suspected, and that 100 ohms will work. So far, my 100 ohm data resistor for the crystal chamber neopixel seems to be working well. I have a 330 ohm resistor in the blade on the blade adapter (SMD). The blade is still working fine as well. Just don't forget, if you build your saber this way, that you need to bridge the data line resistor pads on the blade side adapter. Good luck on your build.
TOm
Bookmarks