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Happ/FX Clear Buttons, RGB-Drive, and Ponyboy's Leaf Switch Brackets. Success!
Santoro:
I was able to modify a Leaf Switch Bracket from Ponyboy to work with a clear button and GGG's RGB-drive insert. Here's what I did:
Apologies in advance for the absymal photography.
1) Drill a hole in the center of the underside of your pushbutton large enough to accomodate the RGB-Drive LED.
Before: After:
Put the button aside.
2) This part will take a little care, you need to cut part of the bracket off of your leaf switch bracket using a strong utility knife. Cut small amounts off at a time,you can always take more off, but you can't put it back on.
You need to take off about as much as shown here, including the bottom portruding part - I estimate it to be 1/16th of an inch.
Hints:
a)Be sure not to cut too close to the hole on the right! If you do it might break when you install it.
b) You really can't cut this plastic by drawing the blade along it very well. I found that carefully 'stabbing' it with the tip of a strong utility knife broke off small managable slices.
When I did this and fitted everything, I found that when the button was pressed it would sometimes hit the white bracket or catch on it because I had not taken enough off.
So I carefully trimmed it again. Bingo, perfect fit.
Standard disclaimers, use common sense and caution, at your own risk, etc. You might ruin a few brackets before you get this down. I doubt it, but it's possible. I didn't.
whammoed:
Hey, great job! Good news, I like the clean install of using the rgbwiz pcb. Question: what is holding the rgbwiz to the button since there is no microswitch there. Is part of the leaf bracket holding it down or is it simply held in by the friction of the led in its hole?
Off topic: Have you play tested the leaf yet? Is it adjustable like the old leaf switch buttons are?
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: whammoed on March 24, 2006, 02:34:00 pm ---Off topic: Have you play tested the leaf yet? Is it adjustable like the old leaf switch buttons are?
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I haven't installed mine yet, but I did play around with them for a bit. I'm about as far from a leafswitch expert as you can get, but it was pretty simple to bend the leafs to get them closer/farther apart. I'm assuming this is what you mean. If it is, then yes, you can do it with these pretty easily.
whammoed:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on March 24, 2006, 03:28:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: whammoed on March 24, 2006, 02:34:00 pm ---Off topic: Have you play tested the leaf yet? Is it adjustable like the old leaf switch buttons are?
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I haven't installed mine yet, but I did play around with them for a bit. I'm about as far from a leafswitch expert as you can get, but it was pretty simple to bend the leafs to get them closer/farther apart. I'm assuming this is what you mean. If it is, then yes, you can do it with these pretty easily.
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Yep! Thanks, I plan to order some regardless, but I was curious. Thats very good news, its a big reason to go with leafs...no clicks is nice but adjusting them to a very short throw is what makes them perform better.
DrewKaree:
Santoro, wondering if a Dremel sanding drum would work instead of the knife. If so, mebbe sticking some sandpaper to a flat surface and running the bracket along that would work in case you don't have a Dremel
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