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X-Wing Electronics

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The fully assembled and painted X-Wing Revisited Model comes with special features for lightning the engines with highly brilliant 12.V leds.

This lighting effect for the engines has two very special characteristics:

First of all, the power for the led is given by a Lipo rechargeable battery, very slim and powerful, the kind used for small electric powered Radio Controlled airplanes. This allows the power source to be fitted inside the X-Wing with no need of power cables going out of the model.

For this purpose I personally carve the underside of the fuselage to make the compartment needed for the battery and build a cap out of styrene with the shape needed to hold the battery, hidden from sight.

Secondly, the ON-OFF switch stays hidden from view too, inside a secret compartment in the droid strip sector thanks to a removable hatch.

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On-Off Switch wiring, battery door and Lipo battery.
Wings wiring connection and Lipo batterynd armature.
Wings wiring connection and Lipo battery
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Lighted Engines
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Hidden ON-OFF power switch. Droid Strip sector.
X-Wing full wiring circuit.
Engine lights: full circuit wiring.
Painting a Red 5 X-Wing-Gallery
Constructing the Fuselage.
Painting a Red 6 X-Wing-Gallery

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