Riceball
Master Member
Hey all. Anybody here have any experience with the Academy God Phoenix model kit and its optional LED lighting rig? I'm working on mine right now and I have everything wired up but it's not lighting up for me. I think I have everything all wired up correctly but every time I test it there's no light, not even a flicker.
Does it matter if some of the wires aren't twisted onto the terminals tightly? The wires are very thin so I'm having difficulty twisting them really tightly and I don't have nor want to use a soldering iron.
I also noticed that while the instructions say to use AA batteries, AAs are too large to fit in the battery case, but AAA fit just fine. Should I be using AAs and try to find a way of making them fit or are AAAs actually correct?
One last thing, on my circuit board, the wires appear to be in the opposite order from what the instructions show. There are 2 wires, a red and a black, and on mine, the red wire is where the black should and the black is where the red should be. I've tried wiring it up both according to how the instructions show the red and black wires should go and reversing it based on the position of the wires and not the color but neither seems to work.
Anybody else try to build this kit and run into issues with the lighting rig? I'm a complete noob to this sort of thing so I have no idea what I might be doing wrong, much less how to fix it. It wouldn't be the end of the world if I don't get the lighting running, but I'd really hate to have wasted money on the lighting kit. Any help/tips/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Does it matter if some of the wires aren't twisted onto the terminals tightly? The wires are very thin so I'm having difficulty twisting them really tightly and I don't have nor want to use a soldering iron.
I also noticed that while the instructions say to use AA batteries, AAs are too large to fit in the battery case, but AAA fit just fine. Should I be using AAs and try to find a way of making them fit or are AAAs actually correct?
One last thing, on my circuit board, the wires appear to be in the opposite order from what the instructions show. There are 2 wires, a red and a black, and on mine, the red wire is where the black should and the black is where the red should be. I've tried wiring it up both according to how the instructions show the red and black wires should go and reversing it based on the position of the wires and not the color but neither seems to work.
Anybody else try to build this kit and run into issues with the lighting rig? I'm a complete noob to this sort of thing so I have no idea what I might be doing wrong, much less how to fix it. It wouldn't be the end of the world if I don't get the lighting running, but I'd really hate to have wasted money on the lighting kit. Any help/tips/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.