{"id":353,"date":"2009-02-22T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=353"},"modified":"2009-02-22T02:14:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T07:14:13","slug":"wires-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Wires break"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing about wiring a model – these wires always seem to have a way of breaking. It\u2019s really annoying.<\/p>\n

Anyway, after I set up the LED for the monoeye… Gee, didn’t I already do this post? Oh, yeah, that’s right, I had to wire the monoeye again<\/em> because I broke one of the wires…
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What happened was I was showing the model to someone, and wanted to show them how when you turn the head, the eye turns as well. (This is a standard feature of the kit, of course… Though adding LED wiring to the mix complicates things slightly) Anyway, it didn’t want to turn that day so I pushed it a little harder, heard a little “snap” and the LED went out. Turns out the wire ripped itself off the LED (taking the LED’s contact surface with it).<\/p>\n

So to replace it I basically had to pull the whole monoeye assembly apart again and wire up and install a fresh LED. This time around I took a few extra measures to try to prevent something like this from happening again:\n\n

  • After the LED was installed, I filled the space around it with Aves Apoxie Paste. This will help prevent any movement of the wires from stressing the connection to the LED.\n
  • The holes leading from the front of the head to the back have been made larger\n
  • The section of wire routed through the back of the head is now looped, to provide extra slack and stress relief.\n<\/list>\n

    Hopefully that will prevent things from breaking again. So far so good, anyway.<\/p>\n

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    One thing about wiring a model – these wires always seem to have a way of breaking. It\u2019s really annoying. Anyway, after I set up the LED for the monoeye… Gee, didn’t I already do this post? Oh, yeah, that’s right, I had to wire the monoeye again because I broke one of the wires…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}