Jas-Ot wrote:
I'm going to order the LED from LEDsupply, standard 20mm star. Should fit in there just fine.
I prefer to use Artic Silver for a TIM, and while it's tacky, it wont hold the same as thermal tape, so that snap ring idea sounds like the way to go.
Recommendations on chassis? I'm still trying to decide on Soundboard, leaning to a Spark2 since the LED will be B/B/W. Although not sure about sound quality/volume from a single 20mm speaker.
the sound on 2 20mm bass speakers is kinda amazing, there are relief cut outs under the clamp that lets that upper speaker let out some good sound, and almost overrides the rumble motors feel.
I bought goth 3d chassis part for 7/8 since it 7/8 all the way through the chassis, and just under 8inches(from grenade to end of pommel) with all the parts you come out just over 7 inches. I got a battery holder section, and 20 mm section, a ignitor/spark section and the 20mm recharge port combo, I got a maxi amp from NEC so I could run 2x 20mm speakers, I didn't use the capacitor/resistor cause I wanted stereo sound, not the sub woofer sound. the maxi amp will just fit on the under side of the sound board chassis section. under clamp there is a lot of cut out relief in that section so I was able to hide some of the wires for the switches and the rumble motor there.
I basically put the battery in the grenade section, I glued the upper 20 mm speaker to the sound board section, used the relief section under the clamp to run wires over the speaker to the switch, led and battery ect.. and glue some Velcro to the bottom speaker/receharge port combo so I can move it to access the memory card when the pommel is off.
also if you've ever done a graflex and you rounded out the clamp lever slot for more tension I suggest you do that, cause its a royal pain to get the switches to slide under the clamp and the bubble card is loose as hell.