I will recommend Erv include the plug to hook to a charger though :D
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Hi there !
about the charging plug, it was actually sent with the saber, and was meant to be soldered (details/explanation below) assuming that Kit could do it (bad engineer habit). The charger was not shipped cause what we have here in France uses a transformer, it's heavy and more expensive that what can be found at battery space.com (they have switching mode power supply charger, no transformer, reduced weight, reduced shipping).
Fortunatly, Xwing was a great help finding a zero-soldering solution with adapters !
Just a quick copy paste of my post on Force Fx :
hopefully master Xwing was there, as I told Kit, I feel a bit ashamed for not having pre wired the charger plug, and worse, I haven't seen those plug adapters battery space sells... ::)
but then, that's cool, Kit has a simple solution to get a charger without soldering !
You know, Kit, you've made a very kind review of this saber, I'm really honored ! It's been really stressful for me to make a saber for sending it oversea, I was wondering about shipping of course, but also about the features of the sabers... things have been mentionned on forum, but it could be different when you see the object in person, so I'm really happy if it suits you :D
You might have noticed on the video that the clash sounds are sometimes triggered during the spins, it's due to the ankle touching the saber or something like that (or a really energetic spin) : this is of course changeable, I've set up the saber to be really sensitive to impacts, minor changes to the configuration file on the sd card will set the saber behavior to your personnal way of fighting !
I also appologize for not having given you some basic operationnal info about the saber, well first I was suprised it was delivered so fast, and I kind of assume that people have the time to read all the crappy n' heavy engineer detailed documents I write ;)
It's true that everything is written in those, but I sometimes forget how hard it could be to read them when you don't have a technical background (not speaking about the fact that my english could be blurry sometimes ).
I also wanted to add that some of my recent features on the crystal focus combo board (luxeon driver + sounds), such as the blaster blocking and blade lockup are ideas I partly got by exchanging with customers and friend, so feel free to send me suggestions, I'll see if it's possible to add it in the firmware. This is my point of view : sharing info, exchanging etc. is the key to end with a product which is REALLY on the side of the fan/customer/sabermaker
so... many thanks to the people I've been in touch with about that
*thumb up*
Let me add also that I'll soon go in redesigning crystal focus to improve sound quality, simplify the design, and if we're lucky, lower the price of a few euros. I'm also redesigning totally the website to get a real e-shop, fully in both languages, french + english + multi currency support.
Back to work !
Cheers
Erv'