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Old 06-14-2007 | 11:10 AM
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Default RE: Night flying lighted blades / frame

The above photos and video:

Align EL wire 7.99$ x 2
Align EL Dual driver 7.99$
MicroDeans matched pair 3.00$
-- EL wire powered off Main 1320mAh 11v TP Lipos
-- Installed micro toggle for quick main battery disconnect, and deans above for light disconnect.
-- www.helihobby.com

Venom 245mm CF LED blades 90.00$
Venom Charger 12.00$
Power Pins 3.00$
-- Venom blades are PC board and battery integrated molded CF blades. Each blade has it's own 3 LED array and permanent battery.
-- Tower hobbies

Photon II Keychain LEDs 16.00$ x 3 retail (I got them for 8$)
-- each light individually powered by 2 x CR2016 button cells.

scotch tape (for layout)
Hotglue and Med. CA, and zipties for setup

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NEW Version in the works, with one more EL wire (Orange for skids), but required second EL driver.

(Note to all: be careful when installing EL wire, with respect to the beginning and ending terminations of the glowing part. I leanred the hard way that you can flex the hell out of the EL wire itself into pretty tight bends, but DONT flex near the endcaps unless you give yourself about a 1cm buffer of wire. I didn't, and smoked my second wire driver because the EL wire shorted at the feeding end. )