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TOPIC: Installing Saberforge 12w LED with NBv2 setup
Installing Saberforge 12w LED with NBv2 setup 9 months 2 weeks ago #20644
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I'm new to the whole lightsaber scene and I've been looking at various sabersmiths every day for a few months now. None of them ever got quite what I wanted so I decided to build my own. I have my part list down but I want to use Saberforge's 12w Yellow LEDs for my future saberstaff.
I've found tutorials online for connecting wires with soldering and such, but I'm not quite willing to mess with resistors which is why I'm going with SF's 12w LED. My planned setup will be using a single 18650 Li-Ion battery per saber connected to a Nano Biscotte v2 soundboard. I've noticed on the 12w LED page on Saberforge.com is that it has three wires. I'm just wondering how I wire all of this up. I've been given a little advice on the matter through Saberforge's customer service but they didn't really go into the details.They mentioned something about a Power Extender and that I would need one to properly wire the 12w LED to the NB v2 soundboard. All I know is that I apparently need one, but I don't know how to do so. Can anyone help me out with this? |
Installing Saberforge 12w LED with NBv2 setup 9 months 2 weeks ago #20693
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Resistors are the easy bit
 In order to use a Nano Biscotte with a 12W saberforge LED setup you will be needing to provide more current to the LED than the NB board was originally designed to do, hence the power extender "hack". Essentially the hack allows you to use the transistor from the PEX board to amplify the current to the LED unit. The PEX has the transistor on board but you could just use the correct transistor instead. I've never wired one like this myself as I like to use the pwer extender as intended for the flash on clash. I'm sure someone could give info about the 3 wires on a saberforge 12W module , my guess is that of the 3 wires, 1 will be a negative with the other two being positives for different colours. (ie a 12W purple has a separate postive for each 2 dies - a 6W red and 6W Royal Blue). I've attached someone elses (jt_trouble I believe) diagram for the wiring including the "PEX hack" but it's showing a tri-LED and not one of the 12W modules.
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Installing Saberforge 12w LED with NBv2 setup 9 months 2 weeks ago #20719
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Takamatsu wrote:
Resistors are the easy bit
In order to use a Nano Biscotte with a 12W saberforge LED setup you will be needing to provide more current to the LED than the NB board was originally designed to do, hence the power extender "hack". Essentially the hack allows you to use the transistor from the PEX board to amplify the current to the LED unit. The PEX has the transistor on board but you could just use the correct transistor instead. I've never wired one like this myself as I like to use the pwer extender as intended for the flash on clash. I'm sure someone could give info about the 3 wires on a saberforge 12W module , my guess is that of the 3 wires, 1 will be a negative with the other two being positives for different colours. (ie a 12W purple has a separate postive for each 2 dies - a 6W red and 6W Royal Blue). I've attached someone elses (jt_trouble I believe) diagram for the wiring including the "PEX hack" but it's showing a tri-LED and not one of the 12W modules. Thanks, this only confirms some things for me. Saberforge customer service told me about a Facebook group of custom saber owners who can discuss sabers from various brands. Getting help on this issue has been a bit frustrating because each sabersmith has their forums and fanboys and it's nice to get help from people who aren't biased and set this aside to help others. Anyway, someone by the name of Shameem Moshrefzadeh helped me out on this. He's actually helped me with LED questions weeks before via customer service. He showed me this diagram of how to wire the PEX to their 12w LED to the NB. Turns out all the positives and negatives on the 12w LED are formed to create one common positive and one common negative. Still, I'm not 100% sure on the set up and I've just been trying to go around for a second opinion as I would have to solder wires onto portions of the NB that aren't labeled in the manual.
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Installing Saberforge 12w LED with NBv2 setup 9 months 2 weeks ago #20720
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Shameem has done a LOT of NBv2 installs (including one for me) and has a lot of experience at it.
I was actually the one that referred you to the group and the one that tagged him in the post for you. He's very very good at what he does and used to be the SF CSR but recently had to step down. Big shoes to fill were left, and I do what I can, but I don't have as much knowledge as he does about those types of things and so did my best to lead you in his direction.
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Installing Saberforge 12w LED with NBv2 setup 6 months 3 weeks ago #26799
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Hello,
Very new to this but I love electronics and what better way to start. So i have a few questions. I am getting a Guardian 12W green, to my knowledge that is a single LED, would I just solder the LED straight to the NBv2 or would I have to use the same power extender? Also will I need a resistor, I have read that the SF LED's have resistors already. Thank you. |
