Re: Hot Toys - DS001A-C - Iron Man 2: 1/6th scale Hall of Armor Collectible Specs & P
I did some testing on this tonight and one 4.5vdc power supply will run everything
I started with an 8 position buss bar and an 8 position jumper strip. I cut the jumper strip in half and attached the halves to the buss bar, this gives you 8 places to connect to for the power and 8 for the ground. Then I attached this to the back of the middle bay with 2 sided tape.
Then I took an old converter that had a plug the fit the bay’s jack and I cut the converter off. I plugged this into the middle bay’s 4.5vdc jack and ran it to the buss bar. I cut it to length and put some ring terminals on it so I could easily attach it to the left side center power and ground terminal of the buss bar.
I didn’t have a 4.5vdc power converter so I just taped 3 D cell batteries in series and ran some wires to the right side center power and ground terminals. This will work for this test but once I have a 4.5vdc power supply I’ll replace it.
I turned the bases on and they all worked
The I wired up each wall similar to Hokietwo’s dowel rod method except I used screws instead of thumb tacks.
As I wired up each wall I ran the wires to the buss bar and connected them to make sure they worked. Sometimes I would have to loosen the screw to make contact on the positive terminal of the wall unit.
It took a couple hours to do 3 bays but I had a lot of trial and error.
This would work for any number if bays and if you had a lit figure base in close proximity to the buss bar you could run power to it as well.
Then everything could be controlled with one switch.
This actually looks exactly like what I'd need, as I have no route to a power socket for my HoA. You've used some terminology I don't understand, though (not an electronics / electricals bod here), and I can't see enough in your pictures to work it out for certain.
I see I need at least
* Lots of wire (duh)
* DC adapter to fit the HoA unit
* Dowel / other + pins to make the battery substitutes
* D-type in-series battery holder (or lots of sticky tape
)
I don't know what buss bars or jumper strip are, though. From a google search, it looks like buss bars are the same as terminal blocks, and jumper strips are like metal combs (or the other way around) - is that right?
From what I can see in the picture and determine from your text
* The halved jumper strip goes into the top and bottom half of the buss bar
* The power-in cables go +ve above the split, -ve below, making the top half of the bar all +ve and the bottom all -ve
* Any top-half can then be run to a +ve terminal, and any bottom half can go to a -ve terminal
Is that correct?
If so - to make it work for bigger set ups (I have 7 HoA + workshop = 10 outputs), it it just a case of using a longer buss bar?
