{"id":606,"date":"2017-01-09T15:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2017-01-17T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:22:30","slug":"bandai-star-destroyer-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Bandai Star Destroyer Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=599\">&lt;&lt; Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small amount of progress before Christmas got in the way. After trying to use 0.5mm fibre for the smaller engines I gave up due to the problems with bending them up to the LED &#8211; they were just too stiff over such a small length. So I downsized to 0.35mm which works better but still had some issues with the off-centre LED placement, so I have decided to take the hit and do a PCB revision with a few tweaks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Small engine LED moved to centre and brought back a few mm to help with clearance around the fuselage top.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Larger slots at back of PCB to aid routing lower fibres up to top of PCB.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Increase clearance around side holes for a better fit.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Rework main engine LED pads to allow a different type of SMD package, and remove unused through-hole pads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just waiting for the new boards to arrive, but here&#8217;s the old one in action with the fibre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9219.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9219-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_9219\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9218.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9218-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_9218\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time passes..<\/p>\n<p>The new boards have arrived, so quickly made one up for comparison. Having the engine LED in the centre is much better, and I was able to go back to the 0.5mm fibre for the small engines. Everything also fits better inside, and the top of the Destroyer fits on with ease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9225.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9225-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_9225\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9227.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9227-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_9227\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9229.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9229-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_9229\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9230.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_9230-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_9230\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=617\">Part 3 &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&lt; Part 1 Small amount of progress before Christmas got in the way. After trying to use 0.5mm fibre for the smaller engines I gave up due to the problems with bending them up to the LED &#8211; they were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=606\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,4],"tags":[33,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}