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Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:08 pm
by littletankman
Hi, Thanks have you any picts of this please . Im out of work at the mo , hence the free time . So I shall have a bash at this tom .
Thanks Andy

Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:10 pm
by fv432
still havent got that far yet so sorry no pics but its fairly easy ;)

Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:13 pm
by littletankman
Hi thanks , If I get it done tom I will post a pict but Ive got a lot to do . Its amazimg out of work buy still got lots to do . Ive zimmereted my back pannel for my Tiger1 as I bought Riks Asiatam bottom half . Correct me if Im wrong but the swing arms look the wrong angle , its a lot higher than my HL bottom ?

Again thanks Andy

Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:50 pm
by fv432
heres a dia of the light box  ;)

Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:26 pm
by littletankman
Hi fv432 ,
I went to poound land today no luck with fibreoptics in my branch . But my mums got a small christmas tree with them on it so I pruned some of ;D . However there not very thick , thanks for the pict . Can the LED be wired to the RX13 board were the front light comes from ( sorry Im no good at electronics ) . But I will put a on of switch ?

Thanks Andy

Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:04 pm
by fv432
yes should be ok just check the voltage
off the top of my head its 4.5 volts to the headlights so a led in that range would be good ;)

Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:07 pm
by littletankman
Hi fv432,
Thanks will check it out , my fibreoptice cables very thin is there veriations in the thickness ?

Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:43 pm
by fv432
yes the hdmi cable i use is about 1mm and the next lot i just got which is computer network cable is about 0.5 mm

Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 6:03 pm
by littletankman
hi thanks I used cable from an xmas tree . to thine I think will look at HDMI cable,

Thanks Andy

Re: Help please with late war Tiger 1 rear blue convoy light

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 12:01 pm
by littletankman
Hi,
Sorry if this sounds a sillt question does it have to be a particular HDMI cable as I got some and there was no fibreoptic cable in it ?

Thanks Andy