Actually, the rest of the wiring is just about done. Except for one little detail....read on!
I had some free time today to work on it, and got the switch wired up:
I temp-wired the new mega-bass speaker I plan to install in my own saber, CS-X:
Added some Trustfire Li-Ion batteries
Pulled the kill key and booted it up:
I pushed the activation button:
Well, that speaker is
LOUD.After some tweaks to the SD card to change a few minor setting in the config files, I found I had a problem with it. The switch quit working....I tried soldering to the other set of terminals on it, and it still didn't work, although the led lit up just fine. I've never had one of these switches quit working like that.
After double checking the wiring, I changed the switch back out for the green dot SPST and it worked just fine.
The shorter switch will put less strain on the wires anyway, so I think we'll have to go with this one. I know you wanted the ring style, Master Valon, but the last two I got from TCSS wouldn't fit in this box for some reason. I think you'll like the trade off I'm planning, though. ;)
I shot a short video to show how it sounds so far:
I wanted show how it might sound in the saber, so I put it in an MHS sinktube adapter I have, and put on the pommel:
This was loud enough that the impacts, power on and power off actually hurt my ears! This really sounds too good not to use it, but it wasn't what we had decided upon, so I took it off and got the rest of the saber together.
This is where another problem reared it's ugly head...The battery holder/speaker assembly is just a tad too long, and was pushing against the recharge port, making it difficult to install the pommel. From past experience, I think it would be best to avoid that, especially since this is going to have to have it's batteries changed often. To get around this, I will make the saber use a pair of 7.4 volt rechargeable packs that I'll make from these:
I'll add QD plugs to both packs so they can be swapped out.
I made up a speaker assembly using another of the mega-bass speakers:
You can also see there the QD for the battery pack. It's the same locking type I usually use for blade led's.
Here's a shot at the speaker assembly inside the actual saber:
I made up a test battery holder for this set up and plugged it in:
Added a blade, pulled the kill key, and started it up:
Not too shabby!
I'll need to get the batteries charged before making the packs and will do that tomorrow.