This weekend's work was all about electrical and lighting. We have received all of the miniature and color-changing LEDs we ordered and so we set out to work, experimenting with how they could be added to our model. In the above picture you see we have broken out a piece of the Flipper's poles and added a color-changing LED behind it. In our testing these ended up working great. And we learned a huge lesson. It is better to work your lighting in BEFORE you put your model together...not after :)
Over on the Log Ride we have done just that. We waiting on these pirate signs and are really glad we did. Here you can see the back of the sign with a positive wire running up one side and a negative wire running up the other. Believe it or not, that tiny little speck of yellow with the two wires coming out of it sitting left of the sign is a mini LED.
Once installed and running it looks like this. Notice the yellow light lit on the right pole. These look really neat in low light.
So with the experimental part of this phase done we are now working away to add the rest of the lights to both models and to our game booths.
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