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Ultimarc U360 Mod to add rotary function&Top-fire/LED
Bender:
--- Quote from: Stub on May 23, 2008, 09:03:59 am ---I am testing with an LED wiz. Only way to go, I will most likely have 4 of them because each only will handle only 10 RGBs.
I was thinking about a wacky idea, using the steel shaft as the ground. It would save a wire. Anyone think I'm nuts?
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--- Quote from: Franco B on May 23, 2008, 10:59:43 am ---Good thinking Batman :)
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that's just what I was going to say
This is already way more complicated than the top- rotary I started with.
So I'm going to stick with the one color LED or I'll never get this thing done
But you never know, that is a great solution Stub!
there is still the rotary connection on the bottom to solve with that approach
although I have seen some 2 and 3 lead bi-color LED's around, How does that work?
Bender:
Ok I Got some LED's From GGG
They came really quickly!
but now I want to know if there is an easy way to test them without hooking up the led wiz and the computer, can I just hook them up to a battery?
Franco B:
Now come Bender, you know they will work, you don't need to test them ;) You just want to look at the pretty lights :)
From looking at the GGG site those LEDs need between 3.0-3.5v. You should be able to connect two 1.5v AA batterys together to power one.
If the LED doesnt light, reverse the polarity. Dont worry, you cant damage the LED etc as the diode stops the juice from flowing the wrong way. One of the LED 'legs' should be shorter than the other, thats the negative (there may also be a flat on the LED body next to the negative)
Stub:
I cannot seem to find any 4 conductor socket plugs that could actually fit inside the shaft with terminals. Nor can I find a molded one that would work.
My thought is to friction fit the male portion of the plug in the stick. If I am going to do that why dont I use a 6 conductor 3.5mm instead? The socket is large at 12mm wide at its widest point, and 15.6mm deep, but on this would make a nice mounting surface. See attached
With it stacking up and the pcb moving back further I still this we are in range of its tolerance of what it can programatically correct.
Twin-X:
--- Quote from: Stub on May 27, 2008, 03:52:22 pm ---I cannot seem to find any 4 conductor socket plugs that could actually fit inside the shaft with terminals. Nor can I find a molded one that would work.
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Cant the stick itself not function as a conductor?
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