Sunday 24 April 2016

Mast(erbalster) part 4

This time I've been doing more work to the mast.

I've made the H aerial using various bits of styrene, aluminium tube and brass rod.  On the basis that a picture speaks a thousand words...

Before...                                              
and after

The lights all work too.  I've made up a circuit board to run separate circuits for the cabin lighting, navigation lighting and SIMS screen.  I'll post about that board in a future post.  Also, A fellow club member made a couple of small circuit boards up for me so that the blue and orange lights flash separately.

So, here's a picture showing all the lights on, which caught the blue and orange ones on.  I'm both relieved and impressed that he wiring inside the mast still works!


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3 comments:

  1. Unknown3 February 2017 at 06:51

    Phil,
    Where did you get the maxt lights from, i am having difficulty sourcing them.
    Regards
    Rob

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  2. phil.crowther3 February 2017 at 12:30

    I made the mast nav lights as I couldn't find any either. They are flat top LEDs inside, I think from Technobots. The lenses were made from acrylic tube bought from eBay and I think I just searched for it; can't remember the seller. I then made the tops from styrene sheet and put a small piece of bare metal foil on the inside of the top as a reflector. I then sprayed the port and starboard lenses with clear red and green before masked a small band around the sense and then sprayed the rest black.
    Hope that helps.
    Phil

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  3. Unknown11 February 2017 at 02:55

    Thanks for that

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