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Re: My MKVI self upgrade to CFv5
« Reply #225 on: July 17, 2013, 09:23:33 PM »
that's correct, it's how accubolt is designed. Very nice alex, this must be BRIGHT assuming where you shot the video !

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Re: My MKVI self upgrade to CFv5
« Reply #226 on: July 30, 2013, 11:40:59 AM »
man i missed this  :o
alex the mkvi looks awesome man i love how the chamber turned out very cool
and i also like the led strip set up, its especially fitting here as this is defo not a dueling saber anyway,

great job alex


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Re: My MKVI self upgrade to CFv5
« Reply #227 on: August 28, 2013, 12:49:29 PM »
Awesome job, Alex. I especially love the crystal chamber you designed for this. Very nice work. All the features of this saber are king... but my favorite part is the LS!
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I must have also missed this when you originally posted. Really cool saber.



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Re: My MKVI self upgrade to CFv5
« Reply #228 on: August 28, 2013, 03:08:42 PM »
Finally made it to this thread.  Wow!  You should be totally proud, this thing is awesome.  Can't wait to see the final result when the diffuser is resolved but even so, it is a terrific job and that crystal chamber is stellar.  Very very nice! :))



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Re: My MKVI self upgrade to CFv5
« Reply #229 on: August 29, 2013, 08:47:53 AM »
Thanks for the kind words.   :D  I pretty much have the diffuser solved, I just have to remake the flash strip more like the one in the manual so that there are no sharp edges to hang up on the foam diffuser.  Haven't had the time.   :-\

I had plans to make this a chambered saber for a long time (well over a year) but just couldn't see a good enough chamber for such a spectacular hilt.  Then finally, I forced myself to pick a starting point and sat down for about 5 hours drawing and erasing (but mostly erasing) until it was to my liking.  A few days of tweaking later, I had the design finished, and I started working.  The more I did, the more I realized just how awesome this was gonna look in the end.  I'm definitely proud of what I was able to accomplish every time I look at this saber. 

Also, there may or may not be a V2 version planned.  :-X

I do have a warning for CF-LS users though.  When I originally put this together, I had a font that had the drive setting at ~ 50% of max (max is where it should be for this string).  I originally got the idea from slothfurnace's obi.  in one of his videos, he scrolled through the fonts and superimposed on the screen what they were.  High brightness, high volume all the way down to low brightness, low volume.  Setting the drive below 80% (number recommended by Erv) causes the PeX components on board to act as resistors and become extremely hot, which isn't good for those components.  In my case, one of them blew and I had to strip the saber to repair the board.  Moral of the story, just accept that your runtime will be limited with an LS build, and don't try to put a half brightness font.  It was clearly a user error, and it seems incredibly obvious in hindsight, but I just wanted to share that with everyone so that no one else makes the same mistake.
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Re: My MKVI self upgrade to CFv5
« Reply #230 on: August 29, 2013, 10:12:01 AM »
but I just wanted to share that with everyone so that no one else makes the same mistake.

and thank you for that, along with kudos for the saber itself  :)

 

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