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Nikola
Hung Like a Flea
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
Posts: 790
Location: Edmond, OK
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Well, I got back to working on the guitar tonight, again with Leb's help. We tried about 20 different LEDs and poured through everything RadioShack had before we ended up deciding on some LEDs from a string of Christmas lights!
It's interesting to note that so far we haven't been able to find LEDs quite like these anywhere else. They have a conical cut into the top that helps disperse the light in a 360 degree angle to the sides as opposed to a much smaller viewing angle out from the top of the LED.
Anyways, here's what we got after wiring them up on a breadboard section that Leb cut too short The copper leads at the bottom was the solution to the too-short breadboard.
After that was all accomplished we drilled a hole from the Floyd Rose cavity to the electronics one. I almost cried drilling into my baby, but the worst of that was to come later.
After that we fed the wires through and soldered up the resistors to another small piece of breadboard and realized we didn't have any foam tape to mount any of this with so we went to Wal-Mart to grab it, came back and continued on mounting them in place.
After all of that, I had to decide whether I really wanted to drill a hole through the gorgeous quilted maple top or find some other way to switch between 9v and 18v. After a couple hours of deliberation I finally gave in and drilled through and countersunk a hole to mount the switch in. I may or may not have shed tears drilling through the top.
Once that was done we buttoned it all back up and sure enough it all still works, but more importantly it looks SWEET!
The next mod for this guitar will probably be a momentary killswitch that I can press to instantly kill all signal from the guitar. It will have to be able to be very low latency so I can spam it, but we're still deciding on how best to accomplish that. _________________ Failure is just success rounded down.
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Sat Sep 26, 2009 3:49 am
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