Project: Frankenstripe

[SXRguyinMA]

eagerly waiting

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eagerly waiting

I've lucked into an 8 to 5 shift tomorrow. Planning on getting the rest of the panels primed after work.

It won't that exciting of an update, but it will be an update nonetheless!

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Text update for now--left my camera across town.

Stopped by Radio Shack, got 4 3mm red LEDs, 2 chrome 5mm LED holders, and a pair of yellow LEDs, of which I'm only going to need one (HD activity.)

Cut the offending latch system off the bottom of the case on the windowed side.

Wetsanded the front panel. Got a bit overzealous. No biggie, I'll be throwing more primer at it shortly.

I also have some mineral spirits in my possession. Time to prep some metal.

But not now, it's nearly 9 pm here and I've pissed off just about every dog in the neighborhood with my dremel.

There might be pics in the near future--I've got a bit of homework to knock out as soon as I get home.

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A bit of an update!

I've started my frontal assault on the fan controller. For those of you who don't remember, I won a grab bag from site owner Crimson Sky last year, and one of the items in the bag was this:

That blue, however cool it does look, needs to go. It does NOT fit in with the color scheme one bit. So, out comes the Leatherman and the soldering iron:

After much fighting with my cheapo soldering iron, and figuring out which side was positive, I ended up with this:

Low intensity LEDs from Radio Shack FTMFL. 2.5 mcd, 700 nm peak wavelength. If I install all five of them, I'm gonna end up with pink--and that ain't gonna work.

So, another order to Hong Kong's finest LED Shoppe is in my near future. And a trip down to Radio Shack to return the package of FTL LEDs that I haven't opened up yet.

[SXRguyinMA]

should look nice. you may end up needing high intensity reds to get the full color

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should look nice. you may end up needing high intensity reds to get the full color

And I just ordered them today, along with a vandal switch.

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A small preview of what is going to happen tonight when I get home:

Then it's back to the painting.

[Acey]

Erm.. I dont get it.. pardon me, electronics retard here

[SXRguyinMA]

mmm cant wait for the update

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Switch has been installed. And in the true spirit of this mod, I had to do a bit of hacking to make it work.

I took an unconventional approach and made my pilot hole from the back.

Phone call interrupted my modding, so I thought I would take an in progress picture.

The biggest drill bit I have wasn't big enough. No problem, that's what the dremel is for.

Damn thing got away from me. Not to worry though:

As you can see, most of it got ate up while making the hole, and the rest of it will be covered in the near future by a flat washer.

That's with nine volts applied. Seems a bit orange, but in real life it's quite red.

I've also abandoned the chrome LED holders, as they protrude too much. I'll get something worked out--lets say I'm formulating an idea for the HD activity light.

Now, as soon as my LED Shoppe purchase shows up, I'll finish switching out the LEDs on the fan controller.