Lighting Test 1

I installed all of the wiring, push button and LED into the base front plate and ran a lighting test. The Zip drive had two light pipes that I managed to keep and I installed my flashing LED between them.

As you can see the standard 5mm flashing LED runs the two light pipes very well, so that part I'll call a success.

The other job I tackled was to install the fibre optic in the model itself. I added some squares of styrene to the upper hull to act as light fitting bases and drilled a 0.4mm hole in them. I domed the ends of the optic fibre by holding it near a flame to form a lens about 1mm in diameter. The optic fibre was then threaded through the holes and the domed ends stop it falling through and look quite convincing as light lenses. A test of the optic fibre was then performed.

 The light for the optic fibre was provided by a temporary super bright LED that I have. The lights are difficult to capture with my camera, however they are bright enough to see well in the daytime, but to capture on the camera I had to turn the lights off.

More soon,

Cheers,