SERENITY - Dec 23 2005

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My attempts at cleaning up the inside if the engine intake are not going well so I decide to prime it hoping that will make it easier to spot the mistakes

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What a mess. The primer spray can decides to spit out goop. The inside still looks terrible and the outside needs to be cleaned up

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Close up of how terrible the inside is

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The quick wiring for the LED circuit. A maze

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The modified LED board with some of the red LEDs pulled off

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Wiring added to the back

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The entire mess back

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The front

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It works. Sort of.

When I was trying to prime the engine intake the spray can does something I have never seen it do before. It sprits out gook and sort of ruins the finish of the part. So I try and pull as much of it off as I can by hand. I do a second respray and hope that is OK.

 

I have left the lights as it can be said that it is not really needed for the finished model. If I do a lot of other stuff on the model I may return to do a bit more on it. When playing with the lights the spacing between the LEDs is too big and I can add 16 more LEDs to make it look smoother. I am not sure if this circuit board can handle the increased load. Hence my looking at the original board and the PIC programmer.