russellsch
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Gorgeous work, as always, my friend! 
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russellsch
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All completed except final touch ups and electronics!
Blue lens polished came out sweet!
Yes I fixed the metal clips so they're all in the same position!
Blue lens polished came out sweet!
Yes I fixed the metal clips so they're all in the same position!
I took this all apart to run the wires out the back plate, aligned the viewers, aligned the mount, secured the tilt settings, got some over spray & dust out of the insides of a few of the viewers, polished the clear on the blue lens, and touched it all up!
Drilled through the aluminum backing plate to "kiss" the viewer so I had perfect alignment, after it was apart, I chamfered the holes on both sides and made sure the holes were smooth so the jacketing on the wires would be safe! A BIG thanks to Treecrooz, Cantina Dude, Seneca for the antennas and Eethan for his light parts, and the guys help, reference photos, advice, and support! I'm beyond excited to have this just about completed!
Drilled through the aluminum backing plate to "kiss" the viewer so I had perfect alignment, after it was apart, I chamfered the holes on both sides and made sure the holes were smooth so the jacketing on the wires would be safe! A BIG thanks to Treecrooz, Cantina Dude, Seneca for the antennas and Eethan for his light parts, and the guys help, reference photos, advice, and support! I'm beyond excited to have this just about completed!
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What company did you use for the custom paint?
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The last phase - programming & lights! This is new for me, so I thought I'd widen my skills and give this a try!
russellsch
Master Member
These are going to be so freaking epic. I can’t wait to see ‘em all done!
Spent a few hours making a wiring harness. Need to figure out how to mount the battery box and Elegoo neatly, then I'll finish the pigtails to plug into the board.
Need to pick up some blue & yellow shrink tube too! The Imperial was CLEAN!
Need to pick up some blue & yellow shrink tube too! The Imperial was CLEAN!
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Yep, thats the plan Eethan!
Well I forgot that the BLACK wire is POSITIVE and the COLORED wires are GROUND on Ethan’s LEDs. So now I have to completely re-do the wiring harness! Eethan I clearly had this in his site and thread, I just forgot!
no thank goodness!
yeah, I don't think you can fry the leds themselves thankfully. but for info, I'm testing all the lights before shipping them and for that I just take a random phone charger, apply each wire by hand on the contacts of the phone charger and it lights up. You can test again that they are still working with the same method Chad
but yes, they have an integrated resistor and I think this or the leds themselves acts as polarisation, so they just don't light up when you put he + on the - and there isn't really a risk of frying them if you don't apply more than 12V.
cheers
Vaderman
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that looks awesome!
I’m glad there was no damage. I know reversing on LEDs is no problem, but thought the problem may have been something back on the arduino that was reversed. Is it not common in Europe to have black be ground? I would have made the same mistake!
The LEDs come from china sadly, I make all my parts myself but in this case, I guess most LEDs come from china anyways. It looks illogical to me as well that the black wire is positive but it looks like a lot of LEDs come like this now for some reason... It is what it is I guess...
Cheers
Vaderman
Sr Member
Ah, that makes more sense, what a mess. So these are on the LEDs that are pre-wired with the resistors, right? Fortunately, that’s not likely to cause any damage, as you mentioned.
‘Say, does anyone make those white lens surrounds for the fronts of the viewers? That is such a clean look.
Yes the LEDs are prewired with a resistor and come that way. I didn't assemble those.
The white surrounds are from rebelscum, he was the maker doings the kits and lights before me.
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