Finally, I successfully illuminated a McClicky switch. I posted about modding one a page or two ago but was never able to make it work properly in that light. The driver just didn’t “bleed” enough and nothing I could do made it happy.
Fast forward a week and a new host shows up. This one went much more smoothly. I already had a modded McClicky and only had to do a small amount of filing and grinding to make it fit this host. I swapped the emitters on the board, screwed it in, and added a bleeder to the 105C driver that came in this guy. No problem. It’ll eventually get a new driver when I decide how I want to build this thing, but this works for now.
So here it is, a copper Okluma TinyDC with a glowing orange tailcap:
Supfire S1 small 16340 tube light, fixed BLF-A6 driver with 460 Ohm bleeder, 219C R9050 SM353, switchboard with 50K pot under the spring, lighted ring with 3x 3.3 kOhm and 6x slow colour change 0805 rgb leds from ebay.
Fun is that the leds are not completely autonomous, they slightly influence each other’s timing and actions so that the cyclus becomes partly chaotic.
Hey all, hoping to get some advice. I ordered some of the LEDs djozz linked above and a built a 19mm rev5.1 board with them, but it doesn’t work nearly as well as his does in the video. I first built it using a single 22kohm resistor and it was basically a red flashing board, with the colored emitters just dark the rest of the sequence. So I figured maybe it was a power/voltage issue not allowing certain colors to illuminate, so I lowered my resistor to the same 3.3kohm value djozz said he used above, with the biggest difference being that my board only uses 1 for all 6 emitters; its not the 3-channel board. Now my tail has roughly 3 colors, red > green > blue, with some flashing and pulsing in between (maybe there’s supposed to be other colors in there? it almost looks yellowish sometimes.), but after a cycle or two, just a couple of minutes, the blue and green stop working too and I’m back to a board that pretty much just pulses red. Its really not a bad look, the slowly pulsing, undulating red, but its not what I was expecting. If I use turn on the light, cutting power to the tail, it starts over again with multiple colors, but every time, after just a few minutes of working, its down to just red.
Any thoughts? Should I try even less resistance since all 6 are pulling through the 1 resistor? I don’t really want it brighter, but I may have to. Are these just not as good as his original emitters?
i never have McClicky.
