with the flickering, roviding interesting behaviors of the high- ower LED for non
conventional or non-saber related ro s like an Electric Staff or a Light Whi .
The Plecter Labs high- ower LED driver embedded on the Crystal Focus Board can
now drive u to 3A and works with any high ower LED featuring a forward voltage
(Vf) lower or equal to 10V. Luxeon, Rebel, Seoul, Prolight, Cree and Ledengin branded
LEDs have been tested successfully. Please note that as we’re writing this manual, we
cannot guarantee the use with ANY kind of high- ower LEDs a earing in the market
in the future.
Warning : High-po er LEDs (such as the Luxeon brand LED, hich is
mentioned in this document) are
extremely bright
. They are considered
"class 2 lasers"! You should neither look directly to the beam nor point
someone ith it hen the blade is not attached to the hilt, just like a
po erful lamp or flashlight. Plecter Labs could not be held responsible for
any bad use of high-po er LEDs.
To avoid injuries and retina damage due to the high brightness of those
high-po er LEDs, simple “emitter plugs” can be built using a piece of blade
tubing ended ith some decorative greeblies.
Sound section
The Plecter Labs sound board is unique. It has been develo ed with the ur ose of
im roving the quality of DIY sabers’ sound FX in a significant way. For too many
years, sound modules were obtained from sacrificed toys and remained low quality.
Master Re lica FX sabers broke the line with better sounds and good dynamics.
However, the low resolution motion sensors used as well as closed electronics made
those boards im ossible to adjust in term of sensitivity or sound contents.
We have monitored several attem ts for building an embedded sound module laying
custom & changeable sounds, often based on chi corders. Using bulky arts, those
were often unreliable and hard to fit in a hilt. Not to add those chi corders were
designed for digital answering machines, and therefore feature a bad restitution
quality (voice sam le rate).
Plecter Labs decided to rocess the internal motion sensors and the sound generation
on the same board which requires some non-volatile memory. Second, we needed a
sim le way to u load or download sound
contents or configuration of the saber
through a sim le and standard way.
To avoid any lugging roblem with a small
connector and an easy-to-lose cable, we
o ted for a high-end flash memory card in
the SD format (now microSD).
Inserted in a USB card reader like one we
sell, the card is seen as a USB storage key
and it takes a few seconds only to transfer
files to or from the card, on Mac or PC,
without the need of any custom iece of
software.
