Hey Yoda, with the 5watt leds I wonder does it take power away when you use a sound module. I seen photoninnovations on ebay with a 5watt LED custom lightsaber with sound? It would seem right if the saber does lose power on account that the 5watts do drain more battery.
Yes It does take power away if your run them all on the same battery.
Well I'd actually like to quote Ultra on this one because He presently does 5watt but with out sound for good reason.
"The biggest hang up on putting a 5 watt in an MR hilt, besides the obvious heat issues, is the 8 volt requirement of the Lux 5 combined with the 4.5 volt drain of the MR board. To get decent autonomy, you'd need to run a 12 volt system and there's not a whole lot of room for that many batteries in the newer MR hilts."
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So there you have it...
Of course you could try and fit two batterypacks or hypethetically string a 9volt to piggyback a 4cell
but I'm pretty sure the 9volt won't power an MR board nor does it light up a 3watt very well from what
I've been told, so I can't imagine using it as a powersource for a 5watt
because even though it has voltage it carries inadequate Amperage.
(Like a car with Horespower but no Torque ;))
I'd hate to see what the inside of it looks like with AAAs and a 9volt shoved in there... ::)
just a wiring and reliability nightmare as far as I'm concerned :P
I like a Clean installation and I love the power I get from the MR board.
I use it with the 3watts and Energizer Lithium batteries and it's irritatingly bright 8) 8) 8) 8)
I keep all my wires in my graflex conversions VERY short and I use a larger Gauge where appropriate
so I don't need them to be brighter than they are right now.
I use mine for 1/2 hour at a time usually and after that green or blue glow is swinging around in the dark
for a while I'll come back inside and it feels like I've been out in Sun because my eyes need to re-focus
quite a bit.
All the Graflexes I've done the LEDs are very intense... even compared to a few others I've bought and
I can see the Low resistance does more than you'd think ;)
I do RC Cars as well and I'll tell you... short wires can win races... just as they can help get every single
ounce of juice out of the MR board.
I do think there will be a great advantage to using 5watts with the narrow 3/4th blades and a narrower
lens but the issue there again is heat so I didn't do it in my Obiwan EP1 Larbel I used a 3watt and it's
Got great brightness for a thin blade... I was actually suprised how well it worked with the narrower lense etc...
well I'v carried on and gotten off the initial question but it's just my 2cents :D
MTFBWY
always
YODA
