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V212 Light Saber Mod
Pretty easy and effective way to make your mini quad brighter at night. Simply cut some clear or opaque straws and mount them between the canopy and the top of the gear housing. The gear housing even has a plastic channel to help hold the straw. Mount your favorite color LED and secure with hot glue. The light saber illuminates the bottom side of the propellor making night time orientation easy to tell at distance.
Using clear or opaque straws as crude fiber optics isn't new and this idea isn't original, although it may be as far as using it to light up as much of the area that the spinning props on a quad create. Here's the video of it in action:
Closeups of the mod: UPDATE: Here's the latest incarnation. This is easier to implement and puts the LEDs further out. No need to hack up the canopy either: |
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Last edited by MassiveOverkill; Nov 14, 2019 at 08:58 AM.
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Very Kool, What type of led did you use and did you need a resistor? Did you use a plug?
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Hey John, I used the WL Toys LEDs:
http://www.massiverc.com/PrestaShop/...hting-kit.html and plugged them into the stock LED plugs, no resistor needed. They're the same LEDs used on the Space ship or Hooten-style canopy. In a day or two I'll seperate the red/white LED kit and make them available individually. |
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Oh sure........... I'm a day late & a dollar short? LOL (referring to my order) Thanks for all you do.
JohnK |
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Nce MO...that's the most UFO looking thing I've seen in awhile
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Thanks BD
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Seems like your photo bucket pics aren't working
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Yeah, they'll be back up Monday. Bandwidth quota exceeded for the month.
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The white lights ended up too bright when I flew it close to me. I bought some colored straws and I used orange straws to match the orange blades and green straws to match the green blades and the orientation is perfect now. Not too bright.
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Looks good Skyjet!
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