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Affable_Knight
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LED lights when recharging batteries
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March 12, 2017, 09:27:35 PM »
Hello Saber Techies,
I have just installed a switch craft, in-hilt recharge port for a V3 soundboard. (The battery + and - were split, with each having a short wire (+ and -) coming to an end, attached to nothing, and each having a second wire connecting to the Obsidian sound board. My assumption was these two short wires were to accommodate an in-hilt recharge port.) I connected the recharge + to the battery + and the recharge - to the battery -, the short wires.
I turn on the light saber and all works well. I plug the charger into this new recharge port and the LED lights up and stays lit as long as the charger is plugged in to the outlet.
The saber has a tri-green LED, buckpuck, non-illuminated AV switch and the Obsidian V3 soundboard. (It is my intention to replace the LED with a GGW for FOC. So, I have soldered a wire to the FOC connector pin on the Obsidian. But this wire is not yet connected to the LED.)
Can anyone tell me what I did wrong or what I should do to fix this?
Thanks.
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Krilleth Luxio
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Re: LED lights when recharging batteries
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March 14, 2017, 05:16:03 PM »
It sounds as though you're, quite unintentionally, completing the circuit by doing so. Long story short, by having it to the battery + to the charge + and the - to the -, you're creating a full circuit around the entire saber, which is powering the LED on. I'm not an expert on how electronics work, so I won't claim to be. Somehow, you'll have to wire it in such a way that you don't complete the circuit unintentionally. You might have to create a bypass to prevent this. As to how to do so, my only suggestion would be to set up something that prevents the circuit to the LED (maybe like a quick disconnect), or some kind of external switch that you can toggle on/off to prevent the circuit from completing. It would have to be on the negative wire from the LED to work
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Affable_Knight
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Re: LED lights when recharging batteries
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March 15, 2017, 09:19:11 AM »
Thank you for the feedback. I think I'm going to start the project over again. This time, I'm not going to make the assumption that I know where those two shorter wires go. I actually like the in-hilt recharge ports where a kill key stops the circuit. So, I'll give it another go.
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Affable_Knight
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Re: LED lights when recharging batteries
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March 30, 2017, 02:08:52 PM »
Ah, yes. So, I once again show myself why assumptions can be a bad idea. It would appear that I had originally connected my re-charge port to (perhaps) the wires destined to go to the switch's LED (of which I have a non-illuminated AV switch).
I have re-wired the re-charge port, connecting as would normally be expected to both the battery and the soundboard and all is working perfectly!
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