As I mentioned I've finished the install of my Emerald setup into my Archon hilt. So guess I'll start from the beginning.
First I had to drill out my switch hole for my 16mm AV switch. I used a 5/8 bit. I forgot to take a picture before I installed everything but I pulled the switch out some to get a pick. It was easy enough. It matched the counter sink hole that was already there and turned out perfect.
Here is a picture of the setup out of the hilt. I hadn't added the connectors for the switch wires yet. For the switch, they are the ones pointing downwards. From left to right is a gray wire I marked with a sharpie, another gray wire, a white (+) and purple (-). The grays go the the switch functions. The LED wires are running up and to the left. They are black, red, blue, brown, green with stripe and green. I'm not positive on what ones are what but I documented where they go on the LED. I'll cover that later.
Here is the 16mm Illuminated AV switch. The wires clockwise from top are white (LED +), gray (switch function), purple (LED -), Grey I marked (other function wire). Another advantage of using this switch is that it already has the resistor wired in.
Here I have connectors added. For my connectors, where applicable, I naturally use red as positive and black as negative. That's what I did for the LED leads. I matched the gray I marked to the black wire on the switch function set and soldered their mates to the wires coming from the module. I also make my connectors so that I am plugging my removable parts them into a port as opposed to sliding the port over a post. Just my preference I guess.
While we're talking wires I also took a picture of the Emerald RGBW LED. I'm sorry it's not better but you can make out enough to follow it. The LED pad is numbered so that's a bonus. In my image, starting at the top the wires go as follows.
7 red, 6 black, 5 green, 4 green w/ stripe, 3 blue, 2 brown, 1 green, 8 green w/ stripe. Now you might be saying to yourself, "I think he made a mistake, green and green w/ stripe is on there twice." I can explain this a little. As the wires run up to the LED there are resistors added to them before getting to the LED unit. It appears that they split the green and green w/ stripe at the resistors and that's why they appear twice.
And it powers up and works fine.
I want to mention that this set up is really, very, very, tight. There is very little room between the LED and switch as well as very little room between the switch and electronics module. To get this all to fit involved sending LED through the hilt from the back to out of the front and screwing the LED into the module housing. Next I got the connections for the switch through the hole and connected my switch. I then pushed the switch in and push the led into the nose of the saber. I sort of fished the wires back toward the rear as I installed the LED. I then had enough wire to where I could grab the whole set and put a loop in the wires. I then pushed the loop up in with the Electronics module and pushed it in as far as I could go. I the pulled the LED out of the front and fished some of those wires forward. That gave me room to get the rest of the electronics module and pommel installed. Keep in mid that the unit goes in all the way past the threads in the hilt so that's some space you don't actually have inside the hilt. Anyway, I them fed and slowly, loosely twisted the LED back down the front. And this is the result.
And in case you've never seen it before, here's what sense of accomplishment looks like in the dark.
The batteries are about at 1/2 charge in these pics as I took them recently and have been playing with it last night and today.
Well, I think that's about it. If anyone has any questions that this doesn't answer, feel free to ask and I'll answer if I can.
On a side note. I believe I had mentioned the tip coming off of my EUH blade. I was looking at it and I think I found out why that had happened. (Aside from bashing it pretty darn hard.) As stated before this was a super hard hit and I feel it is a completely acceptable result for the hit it took. I'm guessing most folks when they duel, it's with some sense of style, technique and/or grace. My nephew and I were trying to bash the crap out of each other and I was honestly surprised this didn't happen the first time we had dueled together. This happened on the 4th encounter.
This blade has been smacked against wood, metal, my walls (on accident, shh, don't tell the Mrs.) I just want folks to know that even though I'm posting a picture of a damaged blade, it is not intended to make anyone think they are of a poor quality. This blade was/is a beast and I just want to show off the achievement.
So now I'm on to contemplate the next saber purchase and upgrade to this one.
MTFBWYA
