Lightmybricks Palace Cinema User manual

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User Guides for Light My Bricks LED Lighting Kits for LEGO®
May 23, 2016 · 23 min read
Light My Bricks : Palace Cinema LED
Lighting Kit
Here is the instruction document for the Lego Palace Cinema LED lighting
kit. Please read and follow the steps carefully to ensure this lighting kit is
installed properly.
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Package contents:
• 5x LED Strip Lights
• 15x Standard Bit Lights (warm white)
• 12x Flashing Bit Lights (white)
• 3x 12-Port Expansion boards
• Lamp Post with LED and cable attached
• 1x Battery Pack (3x AA batteries not included)
• 8x Adhesive squares
Connecting Cables
• 2x 5cm cables
• 3x 15cm cables
• 2x 30cm cables
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Important things to note:
Laying cables in between and underneath bricks
Cables can fit in between and underneath LEGO® bricks, plates, and tiles
providing they are laid correctly between the LEGO® studs. Do NOT
forcefully join LEGO® together around cables; instead ensure they are laying
comfortably in between each stud.
CAUTION: Forcing LEGO® to connect over a cable
can result in damaging the cable and light.
Connecting cable connectors to Strip Lights
Take extra care when inserting connectors to ports on the Strip Lights.
Connectors can be inserted only one way. With the Strip Light facing up,
ensure the side of the connector with the wires exposed is facing down. If a
plug won’t fit easily into a port connector, don’t force it.
Doing so will damage the plug and the connector.

Connecting cable connectors to Expansion Boards
Take extra care when inserting connectors to ports of Expansion Boards.
Connectors can be inserted only one way. With the expansion board facing
up, look for the soldered “=” symbol on the left side of the port. The
connector side with the wires exposed should be facing toward the soldered
“=” symbol as you insert into the port. If a plug won’t fit easily into a port
connector, don’t force it. Doing so will damage the plug and the connector.
Installing Bit Lights under LEGO® bricks and plates.
When installing Bit Lights under LEGO® pieces, ensure they are placed the
correct way up (Yellow LED component exposed). You can either place them
directly on top of LEGO® studs or in between.

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OK, Let’s Begin!
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Instructions for installing this kit
1.) This lighting kit is installed from the bottom up. Start by removingthe
2nd and top levels of the modular building as well as the “Palace
Cinema Marquee”.

2.) To enable us to lay the cable for the lamp post underneath thebrick
tiles, remove the following tiles as per below.
3.) Replace the stock lamp post with the Light My Bricks lamp postensuring
that the cable is laid in the middle of the 2 studs facing the building.

4.) Gently bend the base plate down and lift the building of theground
floor up and thread the cable for the lamp post underneath the
building wall. Ensure that the cable is laid in between the Lego studs as
pictured below.
5.) Pull the cable up from underneath the wall and then reconnect
thebuilding to the base plate. Then connect the cable to the first
available port of a 12 port expansion board. This set has 3 expansion
boards so we will identify this one as “Expansion board#1”.
6.) We will now move on to installing the 8 lights above the ticketwindows.
In order to get to these light sections, please remove the following
pieces starting from left to right.

7.) Disassemble the clear yellow pieces from the grey bricks.
8.) Start installing the lights by taking a standard bit light (nonflashing) and
thread the connector end through the top of the first hole of one of the
grey bricks. Thread this through and then pull the cable from the
bottom of the grey brick all the way until the LED is sitting flat against
the top ensuring the LED component part is facing the correct way up.
Repeat this for all 4 lights of the first set of ticket window lights.

Ensure LED component is facing the correct way up
9.) Secure these LEDs in place by reconnecting the clear yellow Legopieces
over the top of them. Repeat the same process for the other 4 lights in
the second lot of ticket window lights.

10.) Reconnect these 2 section of lights in the original positionsensuring
that the cables for the lights are laying behind and underneath them
and in between Lego studs.
11.) Reconnect the other Lego pieces we removed earlier thatsurround the
window frames.
12.) Turn the building toward the back so we can easily access thecabling
for these lights. Group the left lot of 4 cables together by twisting them
around each other, then connect them to next lot of available ports on
Expansion board#1.

13.) To prevent all of the cables from hanging everywhere and
gettingtangled, (there will be a lot more to install) wind the excess
cables from the first group of ticket window lights as well as the lamp
post cable around the expansion board.
14.) Group the cables from the second lot of ticket window lightstogether
the same way as we did for the first lot and then connect them to
remaining ports of Expansion board#1. Then, wind the 4 cables around
the expansion board again, like we did for the first lot.
15.) You will notice that the cable from the lamp post is danglingdown
freely. This can probably be noticed from the front when looking
through the window. Use a little bit of tape to stick the cable against
the wall space between the 2 windows.