Vader MPP bubble mounting

parfaitelumiere

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Hello, Here I share how I proceed to prepare a bubble strip for vader mpp activation box to get the accurate finish on you MPP, like the original prop.

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Ad yes, this one will be for sale, I already have one on my MPP, and also yes, if you want me to do yours, I can do it.
 
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Is there a consensus on whether the gold lead from the LED goes toward the emitter, or the grips? That will determine which end I have to cut a bubble off of.
 
I will take shots tomorrow, I trimmed the 2 I have, and will put them in the junkyard, hope it will be useful for the next dday run.
 
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Was it the dark green board or the blue board? Like most of this stuff I see one some days and the other, er... other days.
 
Is there a consensus on whether the gold lead from the LED goes toward the emitter, or the grips? That will determine which end I have to cut a bubble off of.

I don't recall, but you do have to flip the circuit board (as in rotate 180 degrees) in order for it to be accurate:

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(Photo credit to d3po2u for the Hollywood Casino ref pic)
 
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My eye sees the one on the ESB hero as blue. Trick of the light? Anyone every uncovered a blue PCB in an Exactra?
 
I did think this one was green when I first opened the calculator up, so Patrice might be right. Then I held it up to the light.

My other two that are blue are the blue pcbs with the red LED rectangles.
 

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these are the ti blue boards, also wrong bubble version.
I think none of these bubbles were used on movies, either obi luke or vader lightsabers, sadly it's very hard to get sure because no hi resolution picture actually can proove it.
First beacuse the window shape and size are different, second because it seems these are much more marer than the pther boards, for now I owned only "green" boards.
 
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don't know, not sure, but for me the vader is for sure a green board bubble so, not the small windowed one.
would need to find higher res of this picture:

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and this one:

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After reflexion, the toe pic could be a small window blue board bubble.
the reflection makes me think about a small window, and looks quite frosty on surface too.

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What do you think about of the Vader ANH MPP V2?

And why green over the white or blue PCBs for the other sabers? Again, I'm not arguing (I actually believe that using the most readily available ones makes sense), I'm just saying we shouldn't state things as fact when they are still unknown with publicly available pictures.
 

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That one has always looked like the square led element board that the bubbles fell off of to me. <--- my 2c


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Like this?

anyways, I think they glued the board to the bottom as an afterthought. The mpp clamp only wraps around the bubble board, while the pcb is stuck to the exposed area beneath on the ESB vader
 

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I don't recall, but you do have to flip the circuit board (as in rotate 180 degrees) in order for it to be accurate:


(Photo credit to @d3po2u for the Hollywood Casino ref pic)


I made that same mistake... and then... took it out to refit... Done and fixed

On the other topic... blue card: I have a green card under mine, but the corrosion comes through as blue around the contacts on the board. So to me, this is the correct board. Green with corrosion. Aside from being flipped stupidly, the colors all match.
 
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I just bought another exactra the other day and it has the correct pcb for the Vader ESB. I made a video about cracking it open. It's a green board... oh well. Thanks for the tip on how to shape it.
 
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