Ironman 2 Wearable Arc Reactor - INSTRUCTION VIDEO IS UP!!!

Re: Ironman 2 ARC REACTOR WIP - COMPLETE PARTS ASSEMBLED!!!

LET THERE BE LIGHT!

Today I installed quite a number of different LED set-up...
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Tested each set-up until I find the light effects I am aiming for...
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After finally chosen the best result, I applied it to our semi-finished arc reactor...
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With the room lights ON...
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With the room lights OFF...
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Only one thing missing... RD's chest... lol:lol
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I'm quite satisfied with the result... though my ever-perfectionist younger brother haven't checked it yet...:unsure

Next I'll be improving the color, from light gray to gun metal color...

Also, switch will be installed internally so no switch will be visible outside... it will just be a twisting action to turn ON/Off the arc reactor...

Comments and suggestions are highly appreciated...

Thanks for watching and for your time...:):thumbsup

cheers!
 
Re: Ironman 2 ARC REACTOR WIP - LIGHTS ON!!!

More awesome ingenuity out of the brothers. Love this build; right up my alley. Great job, thus far! Keeping eyes peeled for a future kit...
 
Re: Ironman 2 ARC REACTOR WIP - LIGHTS ON!!!

BGL said:
I think this is really cool Good job !!!
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thanks!...:)


davebag89 said:
This is pretty cool :)
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thanks man...:cool


Darth Pinhead said:
More awesome ingenuity out of the brothers. Love this build; right up my alley. Great job, thus far! Keeping eyes peeled for a future kit...
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thanks brad:)... future kit???... hmmmm, try to look around, its already there somewhere...;):thumbsup


lord magneto said:
Damn that looks great
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thanks man...:)
 
Re: Ironman 2 ARC REACTOR WIP - DUAL POWER SUPPLY!!!

UPDATES

Just finished installing the internal switch... ON/OFF by just slightly rotating (CW/CCW) the back plate of the arc reactor...
No visible switch outside the arc reactor...
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I haven't told anyone about this... but the plan from the beginning is to make it DUAL POWER SUPPLIED...

The big super bright LED that I installed easily drains the power of the watch batteries... Only recommended for sporadic lighting and not for long time continuous lighting...

So on with the provision of outside power source...

Started making a square hole on the aluminum alloy casing...
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We'll be using this small connectors... sorry for the poor pics resolution...
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The connector fit snuggly...:love:thumbsup
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From below pics you can see that the arc reactor is turned ON... getting its power from the watch batteries... the watch batteries are quite low on power now...
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Arc reactor turned OFF...
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Battery pack will supply 4.5V (3AAA x 1.5V) to the arc reactor...
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Male/Female connectors...
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Outside power supply plugged in... (be sure that the arc reactor is turned OFF)...
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The lighting ON/OFF of the arc reactor will now be done on the switch built-in to the battery pack...
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Lights turned ON...
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Managed to capture a blueish color ligth effects...
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Battery pack unplugged... you will notice that the power supplied by the watch batteries are now low...
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Battery pack online... Notice the bright glow provided by the fresh batteries in the battery pack...
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This baby is almost finished... I'm just waiting for the paint (gun-metal color) I asked my brother to buy...

Comments and suggestions are highly appreciated...

Thanks for watching and for your time...:):thumbsup

cheers!
 
Re: Ironman 2 ARC REACTOR WIP - DUAL POWER SUPPLY!!!

That is B-E-A utiful man! I can't wait to see it once it's finally painted right!
 
Re: Ironman 2 Wearable Arc Reactor WIP - HIGHER LUMINANCE

Ok... the EVER-PERFECTIONIST younger brother of mine did it again...:(

He pointed out that the light is not bright enough...:behave

So I changed the whole lighting circuit... from using only 1 super bright LED powered by 3 x 1.5V watch batteries to 9 super bright LED powered by 2 x 3V coin batteries...:eek... Outside power supply is still 3 x 1.5V AAA batteries.

Also added details to achieve a good movie likeness...
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Added small metallic bar on both side of each coil/winding...
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Painted the part that holds the coil/winding...
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Polished the aluminum alloy casing...
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Made some modification on the bottom of the 2nd circle to make an illusion of segmented parts when the light is turned ON...
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You will notice the light has good brightness/luminance even the room light is ON...:love:thumbsup
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Room light is OFF... you will see the illusion I'm referring to as you look closely to the side of the 1st circle... the light that reflects to it makes it look segmented... similar to the movie props...
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Good brightness even room light is ON...
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It is way brighter than the 1st lighting circuit I made...
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With the changes made, the perfectionist younger brother is now satisfied...:love:thumbsup

This baby is almost done... just needed a bit refining and personal touch-up... then on with the run...;)

Comments and suggestions are highly appreciated...

Thanks for watching and for your time... cheers!
 
Re: Ironman 2 Wearable Arc Reactor WIP - BRIGHTER LIGHT!!!

Yeah, it looks much better now that you changed the number of LEDs. Are you using 5050 SMD LEDs like I am in my arc reactor or something else? What size resistor did you use?
 
Re: Ironman 2 Wearable Arc Reactor WIP - BRIGHTER LIGHT!!!

darkside501st said:
Yeah, it looks much better now that you changed the number of LEDs. Are you using 5050 SMD LEDs like I am in my arc reactor or something else? What size resistor did you use?
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Thanks...:):thumbsup

No I did not used 5050 SMD LEDs, I used something else :D... and I used 1/4W 15 ohms resistor...:thumbsup
 
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