Just me again with a quick update. I've been working mock lighting assembly. Finally finished the speedometer and tachometer assembly.
I was a bit worried that the lights would drain power from the linear motors. In an
illumination relation topic I posted Cristiano said that it
should be okay so I moved forward with some confidence, however it was a relief to see it all work in the end cos my technical
production skills can be flawed at times. I suppose 1AMP was more than enough to push the 12v into the motors and LED’s. I
just need to get my hands on the RP cases, shorten the wires and all I need to do is paint the cases and design/fabricate a
stand for it. Getting there slowly.
In the new assembly rendering below you can see how the new lighting assembly incorporates onto the main frame of the cluster. Only
slight mods were made to the frame to add spacers for the small PCB panel that hold the 12v LED resistors. I’m going to add switches
to the back of the rear cover so I can turn the lights on/off. The red dots on the image below shows the location of the switches in the
wiring system. Thought a bit of drama could be fun so I bought some covered aircraft aircraft switches. The LED mounting has changed
too to help stop light leakage.
Also got a part back from the work shop. Above is a picture of the front cluster. All is going well in the production of
these. They need a bit of finishing because there are small ledges that are created because a short milling bit was
used for this one.
The next one is already on the plate and buzzing around. For those who like to watch short videos of repetitive work
machines click on the video link to get a 36 second blast of the frame being robotic sculpted from a block of sikatool:
http://youtu.be/8NYuG_VnZeo
