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Post by ira on Feb 28, 2015 9:19:15 GMT -5
Top Lights!First I cut 2 small pieces of Fine Mesh Brass Screen. Then I squeezed and shaped the Screen over the end of a dowel. The Brass Screen holds the round shape and it holds itself in place inside the Amidships Housings Light Cavity. The Lights create a Great effect shinning through the Screens.  Here are the Forward Cabin and the Amidships Housings in place. The Light Wires are run through the Holes I made in the Body for them.  More Coming... 
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Post by ira on Feb 28, 2015 18:32:43 GMT -5
Turn on the Lights!Here are the Bottom and the Top of the Raider, ready to be Wired together.  The White (Positive) Wires are attached the Red (Positive) Power Plug Direct Wire. The Black Wires are attached the Black Power Plug Wire.  Those were the last Wires! Every Wire was tested before soldering. The next step is to carefully fit the Top & Bottom of the Raider and glue it together. Then Final Touch-Up & Detailing are all that is left to do. I hope to have finished Photos with Lights Tomorrow.  Finished Photos Coming...
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Post by ira on Mar 1, 2015 10:20:10 GMT -5
VooDoo RAIDER is Finished!After carefully checking the Wires and making sure they weren't getting in the way, I glued the Body Halves together. Then I glued the last few parts in place, did some Touch-Up Painting and Tested the Lights again. All the Lights Work Great! Thank You Randy at VooDooFX! Here are some Finished Photos, hope you enjoy them. The first photo shows the 17" wide Mobius Cylon Raider on the left and next to it my modified Monogram Cylon Raider.   Headlights!  More Coming...
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Post by brizio on Mar 1, 2015 10:24:01 GMT -5
That's a lot of wireing, but it looks great!  |
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Post by ira on Mar 1, 2015 11:19:47 GMT -5
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Post by ira on Mar 1, 2015 12:05:01 GMT -5
Amidships Housing Lights! The Yellow Lights make the Brass Screen Glow like its Super Hot!  More Coming...
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Post by ira on Mar 1, 2015 14:36:15 GMT -5
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Post by barten on Mar 1, 2015 22:33:52 GMT -5
Getting better and better every time!
Gb
barten
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Post by grandpamcgurk on Mar 2, 2015 6:53:04 GMT -5
Magnificent!!!!!
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Post by ira on Mar 2, 2015 10:35:13 GMT -5
Great tutorial on installing lights , this is something a lot of people think about doing but don't know where to start ! Maybe you could explain why you added resistors to the LEDs ? They don't always come with instructions .  I put on the Resistors because Randy at VooDooFX told me to.  The LEDs will probably Blow Out if you don't. I understand that they reduce the electricity going into the Lights... |
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Post by wardster on Mar 2, 2015 22:38:36 GMT -5
Lookin' like a fun one, Mr. Ira! And Thanks again for tuning me on to LEDs a few years ago... You continue to inspire and amaze, Mr. Ira! I figured it was just a matter of time, once you started playing with that (fun!) stuff, that you'd be integrating it into various builds; and encouraging others to play with this stuff ... but I must say, you're more than exceeding my specs and/or expectations! Two thumbs way up, Mr. Ira! |
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Post by wardster on Mar 2, 2015 23:15:18 GMT -5
Great tutorial on installing lights , this is something a lot of people think about doing but don't know where to start ! Maybe you could explain why you added resistors to the LEDs ? They don't always come with instructions . I put on the Resistors because Randy at VooDooFX told me to. The LEDs will probably Blow Out if you don't. I understand that they reduce the electricity going into the Lights... Bob, you can think of the resistor's purpose as being pretty similar to the "restrictor plates" used under carbs, on NASCAR racing engines. (Sort of.) Without resistors there, to limit the amount of current that can go through each of the individual "lights," the rest of the "plumbing" would allow so much "juice" to pass through the LEDs that you'd damage them. Even a three volt watch- or coin-style battery has WAY too much available current, to safely power modern LEDs. The "NASCAR restrictor plate" analogy isn't perfect, but it probably gets the main idea across. The main difference being: these restrictor plates would be sort of like eighth-inch holes, drilled into a solid metal plate; instead of the hole sizes used on actual NASCAR restrictor plates. To be a more perfect analogy, you'd have to pretend you're feeding pure nitro-methane into a "borrowed" engine from a flying saucer, or something ... to explain the radical cut-down in overall "juice flow". (By which I mean, some out-of-this-world, crazy efficient engine -- along the lines of "it will run continuously for a solid week, on three drops of gasoline".) Or maybe a better way to say it would be that any random battery looks like a modern Top Fuel style fuel pump ... trying to feed a standard lawn mower engine. One common mistake, which I've seen in way too many printed articles intended for we scale modeling types, is for the author to say the resistors are there to reduce voltage. That's not the case. They're actually there to reduce current; not voltage. For this example, voltage is roughly akin to pressure, as measured on a car's fuel gauge. Voltage is akin to the amount of "push" -- or even "potential push". Push doesn't tell you anything about how many "gallons per hour" are going through a given system. Current tells you that. Current, which is what the resistors have to get a handle on, can be thought of like "gallons per hour" of "juice". Another way to look at it is that electrical engineers have worked their butts off, for decades, to make LEDs work on even a few partial drops of electrical "flow". And they have made batteries hold as many "five-gallon cans" as humanly possible. Soooo ... as soon as you're talking about even watch-style batteries powering modern LEDs, you're also thinking "Restrictor plates! I need lotsa restrictor plates! With teeny tiny holes, to cut overall flow down to almost nothing!" Hopefully, that makes sense? (If not, just ask; and I'll try to explain it better!) |
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Post by ira on Mar 6, 2015 22:06:56 GMT -5
That's a lot of wireing, but it looks great! |
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Post by ira on Mar 8, 2015 9:29:57 GMT -5
Getting better and better every time! Gb barten |
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Post by ira on Mar 8, 2015 9:58:43 GMT -5
Thanks!So glad you enjoyed it...
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The LEDs will probably Blow Out if you don't. I understand that they reduce the electricity going into the Lights... 
