Starting with the nacelle lights. I'm going with the flow on the red and green colors. I haven't done the research myself to show that that is in fact correct. I figure if REL did it, it's confirmed as fact.

The 6v wall wart I have, coupled with a lack of appropriate resistors means I have to tie several leds together in serial to balance the voltage. I've got 700mA so there should be no probs on the mA front.

The first part gives the intro w/ the lights on. The rest are mostly solder/wiring process w/ commentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQCudC2CAOY&feature=PlayList&p=B5212F64C6B360B6&index=6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z06ZAfUiyg&feature=PlayList&p=B5212F64C6B360B6&index=7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCEFWYc8mJU&feature=PlayList&p=B5212F64C6B360B6&index=8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyPYakchDWk&feature=PlayList&p=B5212F64C6B360B6&index=9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1smGKsChJs&feature=PlayList&p=B5212F64C6B360B6&index=10

Great work! I love watching your builds!

I have a whole big drawer full of wall warts if you need more..
I have had some trouble with the Christmas light leds I used in my seaview, I found if I pulled all the bulbs and messed with the wire connectors I was able to stop any faults...But I still left the lower sub bay un- super-glued...lol

Steve

Thanks for the offer, Steve. While I only keep a dozen or so on hand, I have access to a big storage tub of them. When I iniitally titled the previous vid christmas lights, I was thinking red and green, not christmas lights like a string of them. :D I still gotta come up w/ a better title for that one.

Here's the next installment in 2 parts.
A dozen white leds, an innovative copper tape bus system and sculpy mounts.
I'm still considering where I will put the external contacts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9KP-ktTZKI&feature=PlayList&p=B5212F64C6B360B6&index=13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBogLXigLM&feature=PlayList&p=B5212F64C6B360B6&index=14


For the external contact points, my idea is to use small tabs of copper tape on the outside w/ a magnet behind the wall. This way, I'm hoping that I can simply touch the power leads to the external tape and get power. I do not want to hardwire the power in as I want to be able to shoot this ship from various angles.

I'm also using magnets for the rigging mounts to avoid drilling major holes in the body. Check out the 'Major Assemblage' update in the WiP proper. (http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?p=2792402#post2792402)

It was a long haul today, but I got all the regular internal lights going.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHbovbnml_A&feature=PlayList&p=B5212F64C6B360B6&index=15

I scraped the idea of wiring any of them in series. Each led now has its own resistor. Wiring any leds together so that if one failed the other would was most illogical -as I have the resistors I need on hand. I think I was thinking of doing it simply for the sake of doing it. Duh!

I played around with a 4060 cmos chip today. I got sporadic results as I don't have all the little bits I need to get it to work exactly right. I will be consulting w/ my electronic wizard tomorrow sometime and should have the tests uploaded over the next few days. Ideally, I'd like the light to come on for a few seconds and be off for a minute before repeating that routine.

I also must make a call on where the external power will be wired at.

This is about it for lighting this kit. Once the cmos is working and the external copper tabs are set, it will be time to seal it all up. Ill be sealing the wings up now and may start working on that bottom seam. I will leave the nacelles open as long as I can for convenience's sake, but those will then be sealed followed by the upper hull. At that point, it's all over for fixing any internal problems. I don't want to slice into the body to fix things down the road.

Here's a recap of my cmos efforts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbaS2gyJh0A

If you are genuinely bored out of your skull, Part 1 occurred in 5 installments. While it does cover everything I did, it bores me to hell. Part of that was the frustration of not having the right tools -mainly a board to plug the cmos into for testing and finaling. This stuff is super tiny. Fumbling fingers and relatively massive wires are not helpful. You need several hands for this work.

Here's the playlist link:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=34145A10722312DF
Choose which you'd like to start with and the rest should boot automatically.

So, to continue I need to make a supply run.
For now, the cmos is on hold until then.
Back to body work.

Nice to see another one of these lit.

Lit mine (AMT version) and won Second Place at a show for it. Would have taken First, but I had trouble with that large decal. :mad: Messed up on it twice. Will try again this summer.

Used leds, FO and lit it with a 9v battery.