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Hello everyone! I hope someone can give me a little advice, I am building the P/L 1:350 Enterprise Refit and I am right now at a cross road, I am prepairing to shoot the inboard Flux chiller or as I call them the (flux grills) my eyes when it comes to shades of black aren't what they used to be, ar...

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Look for the RL5-WW7035. Nice warm white glowing LEDs.

If there is heat in the model itself, then there are resistor issues. Resistor values on this particular build were never disclosed. The total number of LEDs were never disclosed either. If it's just the wal-wort heating up, then it's being overdriven. I've had great success with the power supplies ...

Opps, sorry duplicate link to Fiber Optics Products as seen above.

I havn't tested the voltage output of the A/C adaptor but I am leaning towards this being the problem. The amp rating on your power supply is too low ( Output: DC + 12V/1.25A). Research a dedicated supply of 12 volts / 5 amps at: http://www.astec.com Model LPS53 What are the values of the resistors...

Best to shy away from deals to good to be true. I bought from a "bulk" dealer [name withheld ] and had an overall 30% reject rate during bench tests. Just friendly advice.

I just received 200 Warm White 5mm LEDs and they're nice!
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I've been using a CPU power supply (of which I have a bunch of) for the 1:350th EA and it works the nutz! 12v side to power my circuit boards and the 3.3v side for my LEDs. It's smalle enough to hide in the custom base and comes with a quiet fan. It sounds like overkill, I know, but it's a nicely re...

Try http://www.LSDiodes.com Never had a problem and they ship fast

Thanks Madman. If I recall there were 68 LEDs total in this puppy. 2 circuit boards run off 12v for the flasher and photons. There's no offense taken to using wall adapters. I just have a slew of desktop computer power packs in the shop. I figured that since I had a fairly large base then why not us...

Using a PC power supply to light up some LEDs is overkill. PC power supplies tend to be bulky and have fans. Most modern supplies also require a "power good" signal from the motherboard which you'll have to supply. Also, some power supplies require a current load before they start operati...

Wait till you get to the shuttle bay casing that goes on the fantail of the secondary hull. The lower section of the secondary hull is warped producing a bit of tension during the fit. I've seen it on 3 of my kits and I'm getting input from a few others about the same issue. Then again, some kits do...

I have PhotoShop 6.01. I'm interseted in taking a jpeg image of the Runabout and making a "stretch" version of it. Has anyone ever tried this using Phot0Shop?

Thanks

Jack