Monday, April 26, 2010

Building A380 with LED light

I purchased a huge 1:144 scale A380 from REVELL.
I decided to build this one with led lights as it looks like real.
For better effect and reality, I chose surface mounted(SMD) type chip led instead of
regular round or rectangular leds. Of course this requires more sophisticated soldering work
and hassle of wires.

This part is an overhead panel of the main passenger deck.


Above picture shows how wires are connected inside of the upper panel.
The black square thing in the middle is a slice of thin PCB and it will distribute supply voltages
to every leds connected through it. One 500 Ohm resisors are used per leds.

Seats are illuminated by leds attached to the overhead panel.

A lounge in the back of the fuselage is beautifully illuminated by a tiny bluish white led.
I just purchased small 1608 size SMD bright white led but didn't expect this result.
It looks better than just a white led.