BSG Shuttle GAL356

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I did a little more experimenting on the lighting. I found some more small lights that also work on 12V. These are halogen bulbs at 5watts and 10 watts.

This is the 10w bulb next to the previous incandescent. You can see it is much brighter. (The exposures is distorted so just keep relative brightness in mind. Both lights appeared much brighter in person). The 10W bulb got hot pretty fast and I'm thinking it will be too hot for turning on for more than about 15 seconds or so especially since the resin of the engine bell is really thin and might melt fast.



This is the 5w bulb. It is still much brighter than the incandescent but didn't get hot as fast but was much warmer than the incandescent. The size, brightness and color of the 5w halogen looks really good. It's much 'whiter' than the incandescent which looks really yellow in comparison. The color seems to match the color of the light as seen on the show pretty well.


Here's the 5w bulb in the engine bell.

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I also did some work on the armature. I hope Sean, Mike, or Ryan can speak to this issue (I'll post over at RI as well) but I'm coming up with different dimensions than in the photo from Sean.
This is a rough diagram of the layout with dimension in mm. Mine comes to 455mm in length.


Here's with the parts laid out on top. The 2 hardware stores I go to had almost no stock in 3/8" this weekend and this is all they had. for the rear section I'll have to cut pipe to length and tap threads on the ends. The hardware store lets me do this with their equipment but I wanted to lay these out and get some feedback from the group before I do that.


Here are my assumptions on where these go. One is a ?
Please let me know if I'm wrong here.

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(12-20-2009, 11:01 PM)Wombat Wrote: That look's pretty good,perhaps a little large in diameter but the effect sound's like it'd be pretty good going on something between the look on thos elast two picture's.I wonder how the smaller bilb look's that you mentioned?Is it much smaller,again i think something around 10mm would be a good size?
You know,i never thought about just adding two 1.5v batt's to the 9V.That'd work also,although they'd probably drain quicker than the 9V,but who cares,it'll work for me without using resistors to get the voltage back using two 9V's.
Thanks mate!!

I'll wire that one up too and take some pics for comparison. I think it will be too small.

I forgot to take some pics of the product packages so you guys know what I bought. I'll do that and add it here for reference.