1/350 PL Enterprise strobe board

jonle · Post by **jonle** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:08 am

I'm building a PL E. and have purchased the trekmodeler DIY light kit. well any way last night i was attaching the two have of the engineering and tested my lights and some how managed as far as I can tell fried my strobe and nav light board. has any one else had this happen? i'm kinda stressin this mornin on what to do next. suggestions appreciated.

pics:
http://s1072.photobucket.com/albums/w37 ... nterprise/

Mr. Engineer · Post by **Mr. Engineer** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:37 pm

OK, first thing first, how do you know its fried? Did the lights come on again when you remove the two Engineering halves?

I am not sure if i can help you but from this picture: http://s1072.photobucket.com/albums/w37 ... 32_408.jpg

The possible theory is that the electrical tapes could have gotten loose somewhere and the wiring could be touching the aluminum foils thus creating a short. I'm not there, and I could be wrong...

So, the next step is to get in touch with trekmodeler on this.

jonle · Post by **jonle** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:49 pm

Well turns out the board isn't fried just burned out the leds on the bottom of the secondary hull. Big relief but still trying to find the short. All I can figure is that my foil tape grounded out a circuit like mr. engineer was saying. Gonna replace the two burned bulbs and go at it again. Wish me luck

Mr. Engineer · Post by **Mr. Engineer** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:40 pm

Phew! That was close!

OK, now lets see you complete her!