I have saved a few led's from junk toys, store displays and book light that broke. I can't wait to see some paint on this thing!
You'd have better luck buying brand new LED's from someone who has packaged the correct resistors with them... using junk LED's in old toys before I've ran accross some that don't have resistors, or the correct resistors, and wiring an LED without a resistor you can easilly overload it and destroy it... trust me, I have ruined several....
good news is that they are actually very cheap and readily available on e-bay and at electronics stores...
. I would love to see this on an at-st too. Looks awesome.
Thanks, I have been toying with the at-st trying to decide whether or not to mess with it... theres a few problems I've run into though... 1: hasbro went all out and realy hid the construction of the cockpit/head area very well, I just can't figure out how to take the sucker apart! 2: Even if I could take it apart I don't think there is any room for a battery compartment that makes logical sense.... 3: other than lights in the cockpit I realy don't know where I'd put any other lights to make the project worth doing....
Do you have these set up on watch batteries or AAA for power?
There was very little room inside the vehicle, a double AA or tripple AA battery wouldn't fit... I wish I'd taken a photo of the set up but it's almost identicle to what I did for the freeco bike. In both vehicles I used 3 button cell watch batteries. They are small and give enough voltage to light up the LED's correctly and will last a long time without having to be changed, which is good because getting inside this vehicle is a B@#$@ and changing the batteries will be too....
