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Frequently Asked Questions Q: What Voltage is needed for these LED systems? A: Anywhere from 10vdc to 13.5vdc is sufficient, or a typical 3S Lipo pack. Other strip systems out there say you can run off of a 2S battery, and in effect you can, but the LED's get so dim it defeats the purpose. Q: Can I run these off of my receiver battery? A: No, a receiver typically only has 5 or 6 volts and that is not sufficient to run the LED's. I have heard rumor that some of the newer 2.4ghz receivers can handle up to 12 volts, but haven't verified that yet. Q: Can I run these off of my motor battery? A: Yes you can, but we recommend against it. As the motor spins up and draws more power, the battery voltage sags and may cause the LED's to dim. Q: What size battery do you recommend? A: We like the smaller 3S Lipo packs, I use some 700mah and some 360mah packs depending on the setup I have. Our FF3 30 LED system pulls 200ma in one hour at 2.4W and 0.2A, the FF6 60 LED system pulls 400ma in one hour at 4.9W and 0.4A. Q: How does your Modular system attach to the Plane? A: It is up to you, but I personally have the Side Force Illuminators attached with Velcro to the wing tip ends, the other modules can be attached the same way, but I use Velcro and zip ties for those. The Side Force Illuminator circuit board can be drilled through and attached with blind nuts to the wing tip ends if so desired, you just have to make sure you don't drill through any of the circuit traces. Our next production run of circuit boards has location points for drill holes already configured. Q: Can you re-use the strip LED's? A: Yes you can, the adhesive is very strong and made by 3M. After a couple of times though you may find the adhesive isn't as strong as needed. You can use double sided carpet tape and renew the adhesive. Q: How do you attach the Strip LED tape to the Plane? A: The Strip LED's have pre-installed 3M self adhesive backing tape, you just peel off the backing tape liner and expose the adhesive tape and then attach it to the Plane. We recommend cleaning the area where the strip is to be attached with isopropyl alcohol to make sure there is no grease or residue that will weaken the adhesive bond. Q: How durable are the strip LED's? A: Extremely durable! Take a look at the Gallery and you can see my Katana MD that I put in the dirt at Joe Nall, full throttle, nose first because of a left aileron lockout. It was probably one of the hardest impacts I have ever done to a plane. The plane was totally destroyed, virtually no piece of balsa from the nose to the turtledeck survived, it was absolutely crumpled. I destroyed the Plane, a Brand New 45amp ESC, Brand New Torque Motor, Prop and a New 30C Thunderpower 4S 2250mah battery. I had two 30" length strips of white LED's, one on each side from the tail to the nose, it all survived. It is actually what held the fuselage together enough to even pick it up, even though it looked like a dead shark all limp and such. I did lose one separate 3 LED section that was mounted on the cowling, I guess the prop or motor sheared it in half. Some of the LED extensions and cables came unplugged in the impact, but after plugging everything back in, it all worked! Our LED strips have a 2 year warranty against material and workmanship. Our strip LED's have the CE and RoHS certification. Q: What does it mean that the LED Strips are cutable every 3 LED's? A: Our Strip LED's are basically a continuous set of series circuits of LED's. Every 3 LED's are marked with a "Cut line" and have a Positive and Negative solder point on either side of the cut line. Each set of 3 LED's is it's own individual circuit with a current limiting resistor in each set. If you have a 12" strip for instance, it will have 6 LED circuits of 3 LED's each, or 18 total LED's. You can use the strip as one piece with only one power input needed to light all 18 LED's, or you can cut it into sets of 3, 6, 9, 12 or any combination of 3. Then you can solder in a positive and a negative jumper wire from cut strip to cut strip and power them all from one power source. You can run up to 600 LED's or over 32 feet or continuous LED's with one power supply. Q: Does the Modular system only come in Green circuit boards? A: For now, Yes and the main reason is cost. To get these boards in white or any other color requires us to produce these boards in a great quantity, over 20,000 to be exact. I have painted mine white with great success, and they do look good like that. Q: How do these systems connect together A: You can view the connection diagrams here... Strip connection diagram Modular connection diagram |
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