Yesterday I recieved my LED "Starter Kit" from TSDS ( http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/TSDS/116943975056112 - http://www.tsdsinc.com/ )
This LED Lighting Strips Complete Basic Kit consists of a 9v battery connector, two solder-less connectors and two 6" strips of LED lights for 10.99$
Instructions are really simple.
You can cut these stips into smaller sections of 4 LED and either use the solder-less connectors or solder the connections yourself.
So I decided to do a first test with two small sections of 4 LED each.
The first section is to light the Mural of the rear hangar. For this I cut a stip open into the rear wall and mounted the LED section.
And connected with the battery, it looks like this.
I mounted the other section of 4 LED in the roof of the rear Jump Deck.
:)
Really not bad.
I think this can work, but I will need to change some things:
- Light the rear hangar mural across its entire length
- Add a second light strip at the bottom of the mural, so lighting is more evenly
- For the 2 Jump Decks I will continue with 4 LED sections
- For the Observation Deck I will most likely 2 sections - 1 at each end.
- Make a seperate light circuit for the Command Deck (one long strip for the bridge" and 2 small strips for the conference room
For this I odered some more parts.
So this was a first test, successfull in my opinion, and until all other parts are here, I will continue with the actual build of the ATHENA.
Not sure what will be next though. Either finishing up the Earthshaker turret, or re-visiting the NEMESIS CIWS, or some railing, or, or, or... :)
Thank you for your time and I hope you liked todays update.
C&C welcome
Cheers
Klaus
