Full tutorial of how to wire a ultimate fx Qui-Gon soundcard into an ultrasaber

[Joshie-Wahh]

Hi there, ive just finished watching all of Your videos, and I must say, they are awesome Man, I have been looking for a tutorial like this for some time now, i have an ultimate fx yoda saber that i want to take the sound card out of and use in my saber.

I have a couple questions tho, you could probably tell me,
my saber is an utrasaber INITIATE V3 stunt, but i want to put sound in it, would i be able to using this method, or is the hilt to small?
Also, my LED doesnt have quick connect, can it still be use for it?

I would love to be able to use this method to add sound to my hilt. my kiddos were using the yoda saber, but a few of the leds have gone out near the top of the
blade, and i happened to only pay $5 dollars for it at walmart last year, so i want to put the sound card to good use in my ultrasaber if possible

thank you

[Joshie-Wahh]

I just want to say hi hank you Big Andy, your tutorial helped me.
I installed the yoda sound card into my initiate v3, yes you were totally right about there not being much room,
But I used your art of kram fu, and it did the trick, pit in perfectly, and now I have sound, and it's awesome.
So thank you again, May the force be with you, ALWAYS

[Karmack]

Joshie, was that a Yoda card from one of the current sabers I've seen at Wal-Mart and other places?  I'm thinking about getting one of these and trying to add it to my own stunt saber...

[Joshie-Wahh]

Hi there, no it was one of the ultimate fx ones that were out a few years ago
Don't try with those newer bladbuilder hilts, the soundcards are way to big.

[Karmack]

OK, that's what I was afraid of.  Thanks for the info!

[Joshie-Wahh]

You're welcome, sucks too, cause I bought a hilt today thinking it would work, and found out the hard way that doesn't :-/

[Drahcir]

I've removed the sticky on this.
While still helpful if you come across an older soundboard, it no longer holds enough significance to maintain the sticky.

[Obese Wan Kenobese]

I've just changed the blade tube on an Anakin/Vader color changer in hopes it will endure my nephew's use. And, I wanted to try to fix the LED strip on an old Luke Ultimate FX. I got it apart, expecting to find what I might solder. But, I found that just flexing the strip at the cracked part got the LEDs working again. Pinching it in place and trying to find something to hold it made it snap further, so that didn't last. This would be the last missing saber from my Ultimate FX collection, if I can get the last 5 LEDs working.

Anyone know of a way to repair the existing LED strip?

[Obese Wan Kenobese]

The existing LED strip on an Ultimate FX toy has a brittle support with thin flat wire that runs along the strip. If there's a break, simply scratching the white coating with a razor blade can expose the metal surface. I only needed to solder the break to reclose 3 points. I suspect it would be easy to take advantage of that and add several inches in on the last section and keep the scrolling effect. It would just jump the last foot faster than the first.

I can mod an ultimate fx Kylo to full size. Now that I know how to swap for stronger blades and repair the LED strip, I just have to decide if I want to use this post's method of wiring the sound card to a single LED or extending the strip length on an existing toy and an ultrasaber blade.