woodmandan2
04-21-2008, 07:30 AM
Hello
I have been looking around recently at the available lighting kits for model helicopters and have been very disappointed by the price of them, some even over twenty dollars for as little as 3 LED's. Recently I have found a supplier that sells LED's and resistors, and I took the chance to buy lots of them in bulk. I have decided to help out this hobby by making custom lighting kits for RC Heli's. I have 3mm, 5mm, and even those TINY LED's that you see on some circuits for the kits. The colors of LED's I have are White, Red, Blue, and Green. I can get other colors but I need to be contacted a few months before hand so I can order them. The Starting price will be 5 Dollars per kit, which includes 3 LED's of any color choice. This will include a base kit with a connector to voltage, 3 LED's.. Each extra LED will be 25 cents. I will send a spare of each LED that you buy, but this will not include a connector so if you blow one out you must re-solder it yourself. The Red, Green, Blue, and White LED's are 4000MCD. Others I do not currently have them in bulk so I do not know their specs.
If you wish, for 3 dollars I will upgrade the kit to have a small circuit board that the LED's plug into like a Receiver, using the standard Futaba plugs. I have found the easiest way to power the kit is a small 3.7v Lipo 200mah battery, but some may have difficulty with a charger, so I will also offer this kit to run off the RX as well as a 9v Battery. I have a few pictures of this set up on my own heli, running off of a 3.7v 200mah lipo pack, which as you can see lights up my T-Rex quite nicely.
Dan Collins
I have been looking around recently at the available lighting kits for model helicopters and have been very disappointed by the price of them, some even over twenty dollars for as little as 3 LED's. Recently I have found a supplier that sells LED's and resistors, and I took the chance to buy lots of them in bulk. I have decided to help out this hobby by making custom lighting kits for RC Heli's. I have 3mm, 5mm, and even those TINY LED's that you see on some circuits for the kits. The colors of LED's I have are White, Red, Blue, and Green. I can get other colors but I need to be contacted a few months before hand so I can order them. The Starting price will be 5 Dollars per kit, which includes 3 LED's of any color choice. This will include a base kit with a connector to voltage, 3 LED's.. Each extra LED will be 25 cents. I will send a spare of each LED that you buy, but this will not include a connector so if you blow one out you must re-solder it yourself. The Red, Green, Blue, and White LED's are 4000MCD. Others I do not currently have them in bulk so I do not know their specs.
If you wish, for 3 dollars I will upgrade the kit to have a small circuit board that the LED's plug into like a Receiver, using the standard Futaba plugs. I have found the easiest way to power the kit is a small 3.7v Lipo 200mah battery, but some may have difficulty with a charger, so I will also offer this kit to run off the RX as well as a 9v Battery. I have a few pictures of this set up on my own heli, running off of a 3.7v 200mah lipo pack, which as you can see lights up my T-Rex quite nicely.
Dan Collins