Crystal Focus Saber Core

Crystal Focus Saber Core - Vibrationsmotor

A rumbling motor gives your saber a small but fine extra. The vibrations, depending on the brightness of the blade, make the saber feel more like a lightsaber!
On top of the minimum of a CFSC you need:

rumbling motor
maybe resistor

RESISTOR:
You compose the right resistor like this:

R=(Vlux-V)/I

for red, red-orange or ambercoloured luxeons it would be like this:
R=(2,5-V)/I
for white, blue, green of cyan luxeons it would be like this:
R=(3,7-V)/I
The voltage and current is different from each motor, the one from PlecterLabs has a maximum voltage of 1,5V and a current of 0,1A
red:
R=(2,5-1,5)/0,1 = 10 Ohm
blue/green:
R = (3,7-1,5)/0,1 = 22 Ohm

Rechner.

If you use an other motor than the PlecterLabs one, you have to try the right resistor. First try a high resistor and decrease it until the motor runs the way you want it to.

I did not buy a PlecterLabs motor but gutted an old mobile phone. I did not use a resistor, but that does not mean that no mobile-phone-motor needs a resistor. Just try ;)

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At first glance this may look complicated again, but most of it is described in the wiring guide:

All that is added, is the motor and the resistor. Solder the resistor to the plus-side of the motor and the plus-pad for the Luxeon. Solder the minus-side of the motor to the minus wire of board and battery.

When the motor is wired correctly it is important to bond it with the hilt. Also look that the motor has enough to rotate.

I took an empty roll of Scotch Tape, that nicely fits inside the hilt. Then I melted the legs of the motor, which were used to keep the motor inside the mobilephone, into the plastics (you can use a soldering iron in a WELL-AERATED ROOM). Then I positioned the roll, that the motor is not inhibited. So the motor is tightly inside the roll of Scotch Tape, which is tightly inside the hilt.

Another possibility is to use the housing of an old switch and to put the motor in there. With the holes in the housing you can screw it into the hilt.