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i just finished replacing the lights on the back of my mini.
I got a 5m strip of 5630 LEDs from Banggood, and I am very pleased with the result.
I think 5m might have been a little overkill but I want to re LED my night quad at some stage.
Should hopefully make it a bit more visible to the guys I fly with, even in daylight.
The red ones are the pathetic excuse for lights that I removed.
There is actually 3 green LEDs on each arm but the camera had trouble separating them
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Very cool:)
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Very bright, like my front ones...
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Awesome!
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Got green to go on the back of mine to Stambo should have my printed bracket tonight hopefully it came out ok,
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I can't remember who but I think someone here came up with this idea of using the spine thing from a cheap binder to mount on the arms. I stuck pieces of this on the arms and used the stick on LED strips.
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Yeah that was me, lol

That's how I got mine now, but wanted a bumper string on the back,

Will put up pics tomorrow
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I loved that Idea Kev.
I will be doing that to mine, once its flying right.
Those LEDs are super bright :)
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Really looks good, Stambo! Very bright! I ordered Blue and White LED's, I can't remember where from, for my quad. I have the White LED's on the front two arms and Blue LED's on the rear arms. They are awesomely bright. I've never installed LED's on a model before so I really didn't know how it would turn out. However, I was able to get good solder joints and I didn't burn anything up, lol. I'll see about posting a video, later today, that shows my finished quad with FPV and LED's.

I also ordered some more Blue, Red, and Green LED's for a night flying plane project, from HK, along with my Lost Model Buzzer...I actually ordered 3 buzzers......just in case.
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Love the binder idea Kev, my prob is I've got the ESC's on the arms...
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Tony wrote:Love the binder idea Kev, my prob is I've got the ESC's on the arms...
So have I, still works for me. :)
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Did you stick the ESC's on top of binder, a picture would be good Stambo
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Tony wrote:Did you stick the ESC's on top of binder, a picture would be good Stambo
If it was me Tony, i would slide the thin end over the arm and use the large flat side to stick it on:) I expect that is what they are doing:)
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Yep that's what I'm thinking too, it will mean sticking the ESC's on top I recon. I've got some rgb led strips I want to put on but they look AWEFUL just on the arm. Also just got my accelerometer chip.. But that's a new post...
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Dam these green are mega bright,
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Very nice Kev:)
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That's really cool, Kev! Looks awesome!
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Wow, those are bright.... Lol
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Here you go Graham.
I put a little hot glue inside the channel just for a bit a bit of extra security.
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Mint Stambo, I think it was me who wanted pic. Cheers
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