Creating Crystal Chambers build/Input thread/material ideas/sources

[GrumpyBadger]

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Thanks! For wiring a crystal led to blade match, I use an online resistor calculator once I know the forward voltage coming from my main led, then i hit radio-hack and find a 5mm red green or blue led,(they also have have common cathode RGB 5mms that will run all 3 colors for multi die flash on clash led units) The cathode versus anode choice depends on the board for a RGB 5mm. most small leds only want 20ma at most with a FV of 2.4 red to 4.0 some whites.

That is an absolutely beautiful lightsaber, and the garb looks like it is just as nice!  Point to you and thanks for the help!

[Master Rel]

The saber is a piece of art and the technical features are great...though I find the other than saber related sounds quite distracting and taking away from the whole.

But she is a beautiful piece of work.

[DarthCooper88]

The saber is a piece of art and the technical features are great...though I find the other than saber related sounds quite distracting and taking away from the whole.

But she is a beautiful piece of work.

Yes Jedi Yar Nala had 20-30 fx quotes for each font(had to talk him out of a few) there is a setting as to how often they occur, the quotes are kind of neat, though for fx wav's I like the robot armada with the sounds of fighter flying over and the battle droids talking in the back ground

[Vex]

I got one of the 3D printed chambers. Painted it tonight. It turned out Ok. It's going into my Scorpion as a part of a blade plug. It will be visible in the horizontal slots in the lower emitter section.

[XtheXcodeX]

man, I wish I could make something like this

[DarthCooper88]

Wow I didnt know this was still a running thread! More and more 3d printed parts for sabers are coming to market ( I just ordered a rotating double helix Crystal chamber kit for I don't know what yet) This is the same blade plug as shown in previous posts. I painted it with silver gold and copper enamel paints, then finished it off with 4 coats of gloss clear. It is tied into the main blade with a 5mm RGB led that is mounted inthe center of the blade plug

[XtheXcodeX]

Wow I didnt know this was still a running thread! More and more 3d printed parts for sabers are coming to market ( I just ordered a rotating double helix Crystal chamber kit for I don't know what yet) This is the same blade plug as shown in previous posts. I painted it with silver gold and copper enamel paints, then finished it off with 4 coats of gloss clear. It is tied into the main blade with a 5mm RGB led that is mounted inthe center of the blade plug

yeah, I just decided to revive it, due to the awesomeness of crystal chambers

[DarthCooper88]

Here is a pic of one finished for a SK, this has 4 stainless rods, brass led mount/top mount, 2 brass rods for rear support, brass radiation shield, 3 blue smd led chips with diffuser, 2 brass and copper "injectors" natural rough Arkansas quartz stone with blade matching RGB 5mm slaved into the main blade's circuit, The primary wiring for the main led runs through the 4 rods


Here is a  "Crystal accelerator" pommel with blade matching RGB chip

[DarthCooper88]

How about some more crystal chamber goodness?
Here is a saber that was a mess when I got it, I reworked all of the parts, made a new chamber, main battery mount  and hid a soundboard under the crystal, its also running a new Luxeon Z6 for the main Led (6 die under 1 dome)

[chicago.jedi]

Amazing work as always.

I really must take a page out of The Book of Cooper and make some cool blade plugs.

[Darth Kitsune]

Whoever treated that saber so badly on the inside....was a fool. That's such a NICE lightsaber! I'd kill to have one of that quality and design. O.o

[Obalon]

Darth Cooper your getting a dark point! Really love these. Awesome sabers. Id kill to have one. -thumbs up-

[DarthCooper88]

Thanks guys! I cant claim to own any of these as they are other peoples sabers that just get a little machine love in my shop. Now this is a personal one that I had worked on last year and set it on the dusty shelf for a rainy day (in this case a stretch of 20 below degress weather that wouldnt let my 2 shop heaters to get it above 40F! So I happen to have a spare board, new style led and battery on hand and some time to kill, it also has a custom FX package by my Friend Tron with a bunch of Python quotes on the 1st font ( I shot a vid if you guys would like to see it)

I present "Cardinal Fang".....

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[Genkaku Sho`shyk]

just.... sick!


i recently built a modular kit out of junk metal clothing hangers and solder, its not as pretty as these... but i thought it was a fun ordeal and learning process... its all thanks to your pics posts of work you have done that inspired me to get creative with my latest purchase, as it was a very tight fit in my design... and as a craftsman it felt horrible pulling the wires out and having to slowly tur n and twist the m back in.... so i went modular, and found some strong materials in simple junk







its not a chamber, but close enough.. no??

[DarthCooper88]

Wow!
That is a very creative way of using whats on hand to build a working chassis!
 I had never thought of the skeletonized approach, it should work very well for resonance from the speaker