Lighting help, 1/350 Ent NCC-1701 Bussard LEDs dead?

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kharlamov
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Lighting help, 1/350 Ent NCC-1701 Bussard LEDs dead?

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[Electronics NOOB :oops: ]

Hey all, I figured quite a few people here have put this 1/350 Enterprise NCC-1701 Polar Lights model together with the lighting kit.

I seem to have run into a bit of a snag. I was so close to finishing this guy off today but both my Bussards aren't lighting up. :( That being said, the motors that run through both of the PCBs in the Bussards are spinning. I am not sure what is going on.

Here is a close up video of just connecting the K wire from the secondary hull PCB to the Bussard PCB to the motor:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/stnvj0vv2aok5 ... no_led.avi

Here is the ship with all the lights:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zauiyqnck3d7w ... lights.avi


I was confused about wire K in the instructions, do I need to cut it at both ends? So I can connect it to wire J, just to connect it to the secondary hull PCB or can I just connect the K wire to the board directly? Doesn't seem like it would matter...

Arg and I just took a look at the instructions, on the site and they changed them a bit looks like both k wires connect to 1 J, will that help? My instructions show that the secondary hull PCB has 3 J inputs versus the one on the website shows 2...


http://www.round2models.com/files/instr ... mka007.pdf

Thanks,
Andrew
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Post by kharlamov »

:D Aziz Light!

Just got a chance to try splitting the wire on both ends and connecting both K wires to one J wire, totally did the trick in case anyone cares. I guess the two Bussard PCBs feed off of each other.
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