Lighting sabers ?

[paulcarson]

I'm looking forward to receiving a couple of new Star Wars characters soon ( you can probably guess which ones ) and I'd like to have their sabers have the ability to light up.

I've seen some that have the cold cathode tube ( I think ?) but I've seen this and wanted to know if anyone here had this capability ? I'm not very technically minded I'm afraid .

 

[TOE]

it is being run by an LED light and the wire on the bottom can be placed ont eh + and - of the cell battery.

Very simple to make.


ps...i think this is more inexpensive than the cathode style

 

[nash]

too bad only the bottom 3rd of the blade really lights up. the rest doesnt look so good.

 

[lerath666]

that's the difference between cathode and led sabers. led ones onl,y light at the
bottom. cathode light the whole blade.

 

[dedguy]

I imagine that would depend a lot on the strength of the LED and the material the light is being projected through.

 

[hurricane]

ive worked thru both ways of doing this, found the hasbro blades lit quite well with a high intensity led 20000mcd or there abouts, also did one or two with EL wire, but now the way to go is cathode saber,judge for yourself,
L.E.D

EL wire

Cathode saber

 

[pixletwin]

Um, yeah... I'm thinking cathode is definitely the way to go.

 

[metaphorge]

ive worked thru both ways of doing this, found the hasbro blades lit quite well with a high intensity led 20000mcd or there abouts, also did one or two with EL wire, but now the way to go is cathode saber,judge for yourself,
L.E.D

EL wire

Cathode saber

I've been meaning to ask: what kind of power do your saber conversions work on?

 

[hurricane]

I've been meaning to ask: what kind of power do your saber conversions work on?

9 volt battery

 

[genorules]

Is there a write up anywhere on how to accomplish this with my lame SSC light saber?

 

[CombustedGremlin]

I was going to ask the same thing. I'm really intrigued to see how this is done.

 

[C-Phan]

Impressive, this is maybe my next step about the whole Star Wars custom.

 

[CombustedGremlin]

Is it possible to do this with the Star Wars Mighty Muggs?

Also, are there walk-thru's for noob customizers? I'd really like to try this.