Project: Motorized Madness!

[rendermandan]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. After I looked at it some more, the trays really dont' extend all that far out, so I just decided to put some led's that light up the sides of the case. -See the final pics and I think you will agree, that it looks great!.

I picked up a few more ball ends and got the servo for the trays installed.

So then it was time to start on the top of the base. I cut and glued a frame -smaller than the size of the bottom.

then I cut some stand offs and glued them to the framwork of the base.

then i glued on the top.

next I started to fill in the gap with some more Sytrene.

Here it is all done.

This is what it looks like with the case on top.

Here you can see the led's I installed in each tray.

And here is what it looks like in the dark.

I'm going to be covering alot of the base in kit-bashing type work. But for now, What do you guys think?

[Ouch!]

%^$£ing' Ace!!!

[p0Pe]

impressive what that styrene can hold :O... where do you buy that stuff

[danthegeek]

WOW,,,.... That is so damn awesome. I love it. Hey...... Il trade you the BF2 case for it . lol j/k. I couldn't take that from you. Its to nice.

[rendermandan]

Well, I'm a little pissed off today. -3 things happend.

1st. I went to install my Bulgin Iluminated power switch. I prewired it before putting it in the case for both power and led light. -The switch works great. but guess what. the led doesn't work correctly. It goes in and out because the connector on the back is loose or something. When I wiggle the connector on the back it flickers the light. -I'm going to give performance-pcs.com a call later today to see if they will RMA it.

2nd. Some of the led's that I installed in the base trays. -3 of them went out on me. I got them from Lsdiodes.com -I wondering if they are really cheap, and if these 3 went out, what will happen to the others? I don't have any more to replace them.

And 3rd. -The Rockies suck ass! -They could have at least shown up to the game.

-Very frustrated right now!

[The boy 4rm oz]

Could you please take a pic of how you wired the switch up. I have a switch with 3 pins (2 power and one LED) and I don't quite know how to wire it properly. I know one of the wires is ground because when I use it on the LED connector nothing happens. Do I have to splice the other wire so I can attach it to the switch on/off terminals and the LED?

[rendermandan]

Sorry, but I already de-soldered it and put it back in its packaging to send back.

By the way you are describing your switch. It has the 2 terminals for the switch and one negative ground terminal for the led. your switch is probably not momentary.

-See the diagram below. -the swith must control the flow of positive power whatever your switching, like a light. then the positive feeds the led and that is why it needs its own ground.
Not sure what the exact layout of your wires on the switch is though. You can test this with a simple electrical ohm meter.

Hope that helps.

[Luke122]

Some of the led's that I installed in the base trays. -3 of them went out on me. I got them from Lsdiodes.com -I wondering if they are really cheap, and if these 3 went out, what will happen to the others? I don't have any more to replace them.

I've got tons I could spare.. what colors/sizes do you need, and how many?

-Luke

[calumc]

It's very unlike and LEDs, no matter how cheap, to just go so soon like that. There must have been a short somewhere in the circuit

[rendermandan]

Yeah, I thought so too, but they were working for a while. -I was working on another part of the case while they were on and I looked up and they suddenly 3 of them were off. -not sure what happened. -you can see that they were working in this pic.

I got a RMA number to send the $20 switch back. hopefully the next will work!