leds

[David Gray]

hi , could anyone tell me the best place to get LEDS suitable
for the machine gun. powered by the bendini sound unit.
i have Tried mapplins and RS but i cannot find the right type

Dave

[Richie Wignall]

Hi Dave

For the MG flash, i use 3mm 3volt 8000mcd super brite, cheap on ebay even cheaper over sea's. Maplins are around £1 each .

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0057098551
use a servo cable , cut the female plug off, white or orange cable not used so heat shrink up. solder the red on the long leg of the led, and the black on the short leg ,( no resister needed) use heat shrink again on each leg, (best to use long nose pliers at the light end of the led then you dont fry it). then just plug into socket 6 on the sound card.
one way will give you MG flash and the other Muzzle flash by just rotaing the male servo lead on the sound board.( so if you find its doesnt work try Muzzle flash option you may have it upside down

Richie

[Ad Wouterse]

Don't forget to activate the on board outputs first
"How to" can be found in the Benedini manual.

[Richie Wignall]

yep, but not while your soldering

Richie (wiggytronics)

[Jeffrey Goff]

I went to Maplins for 10 ultra bright white LEDs, they only had 6 so I bought them, I did not check them untill I had wired them in, I had 2 red, 3 warm white a 1 ultra bright, because i had trimed the legs off, nothing they could do, then I found this guy on ebay,( alaya_male), I bought 100 3mm 15000mcd ultra bright leds £3.20 no postage cost 10 x 300mm servo leads £1.30, and 5x servo "Y" leads £1.31, took 5 days from Hong Kong all for less than £10, why shop in Britain
regards
Jeff

[Richie Wignall]

Hi Jeff

I 100% agree, rip off britain.

Richie (wiggytronics)