TOPIC: Juggernaut Warrior Tier to champion Tier Upgrade

Hello, I have recently purchased a pre-owned immaculate condition warrior tier juggernaut(Darth Malgus) with plans of upgrading it with sound later on, i looked at the insides already and noticed that it didnt have quick connectors on the wiring, i do not have any experience in tinkering with lightsabers since this is my first lightsaber(not counting black series ones lol), but would i have to replace all the electronics or would i be able to recycle the LED and switch and use it with the sound upgrade

You can re-use the LED, and perhaps the battery, but you'll need to replace the latching switch with a momentary switch.

i dont have any experience in soldering,so i do not know how to switch and replace electronics

You'd need to do at least a little soldering even if you went with a plug N play package. There are lots of videos and tutorials online on how to do basic soldering. You'd need to invest in the equipment however.

If you don't want to do any of that, you could hire someone to add sound for you.

I'm not the best person to answer DIY questions, but I figured I'd at least bump your thread and try to point you in the right direction. This thread is probably better off in the Saber Electronics DIY section than Hilt DIY too.

The simplest thing to do would be to just buy a Champion PnP kit, PnP LED module, and Momentary switch (lighted or un-lighted) and just gut the current electronics and replace it all. The Champion kit includes soundboard, battery/holder, speaker (all bundled together in heatshrink), recharge port, and pre-wired connectors.

You can easily reuse the current LED by just cutting the wires and adding a micro deans connector. Doing that would save you $40 on a new LED.

Reusing the current battery/holder would make it a bit more complicated, since you'd have to do the whole electronics package DIY. For the $15 cost of battery/holder I personally wouldn't bother. You can always save the current Warrior internals (battery/holder, latching switch, switch cover) to use in an empty hilt later. You'd have to cut the switch wires and re-solder (or use a connector) but that shouldn't be too hard.

If you're looking at more advanced soundboards than what the Champion kit offers, then you'd need to gut everything anyway and use the Hero Kit, or do a whole DIY install if you prefer a different board or LED setup (such as a 6w/6w LED instead of RGBA).

You can recycle the LED unit and the battery. The switch is no good for a sound setup.