Boring Green on Display
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- Dale Earnhardt
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Boring Green on Display
Ok, soo has anybody gone crazy yet and went ahead got an extra display board and put Indiglo Blue before instead of the plain green????
not sure if your able to do it though, seems like you could if your good a soldering....
not sure if your able to do it though, seems like you could if your good a soldering....
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Why not use multicolour LEDs together with some control unit? Then you can adjust the colour according to your mood between all possible colours by simply mixing them.Dale Earnhardt wrote:Well I guess if display board were cheap, you could just solder on diffrent color on each and just change em out on your mood for the night lol.....
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- Elroy Jetson
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Found this on those Olympic Radios:
http://www.geocities.com/bennoc_99/stagecrew.html
-Mike
http://www.geocities.com/bennoc_99/stagecrew.html
No pictures though.The Olympic radio system was a trunking system. They used Motorola XTS3000 Trunking radios. These radios, however, were tagged to be Samsung radios, as Motorola was not a games sponsor but Samsung was. They operated on 434MHz.
Thanks to Dave VK2GZ for that information.
-Mike
Yep.
Most of them were ordinary UHF low XTS3000s, with Samsung tags stuck over the top of the Motorola tags, and a plain black vinyl sticker over the /\/\ logo embossed in the battery, speaker mic etc. They may or may not have also been programmed with SP RSS.
The ex-Olympic radios I've used while in the NSW State Emergency Service (complete with SORN tags and the occasional Samsung sticker) all had ordinary green backlights, but I have heard rumours of blue ones from a couple of independent sources. Never seen one for myself though.
Most of them were ordinary UHF low XTS3000s, with Samsung tags stuck over the top of the Motorola tags, and a plain black vinyl sticker over the /\/\ logo embossed in the battery, speaker mic etc. They may or may not have also been programmed with SP RSS.
The ex-Olympic radios I've used while in the NSW State Emergency Service (complete with SORN tags and the occasional Samsung sticker) all had ordinary green backlights, but I have heard rumours of blue ones from a couple of independent sources. Never seen one for myself though.
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Back Lites
I have seen RED back lights on a System MRK. The owner replaced the green surface mount leds with red ones.
The back, or side, lights used on the XTS are easy to change out. Just pick
your color and don't go over the current limit of the factory originals.
Also, the package should be the same so they fit where the original leds were.
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The back, or side, lights used on the XTS are easy to change out. Just pick
your color and don't go over the current limit of the factory originals.
Also, the package should be the same so they fit where the original leds were.
mm
Also the XTS series backlight LEDs are a dual packaged 3 leaded white case rectangular arrangement kind of looking like a mini light bar, that I haven't found a source for as of yet but with care 2 single SMT LED's can be placed in the small recessed slots of the original and wired in to the LCD board.
Mike
Mike
OK here are the direct links, I hope this works
my stock FPP xts5k aside the red display XTS3000
http://img122.echo.cx/img122/6077/mvc004f5qs.jpg
closeup of the red display xts3k
http://img122.echo.cx/img122/8155/mvc005f1lo.jpg
closeup of the fpp xts5k
http://img122.echo.cx/img122/7528/mvc006f5xq.jpg
When I find more time I plan on changing the XTS5k display.
Also I don't have my blue and red LCD sabers with me at this time but I can get them later after lunch and post them.
Mike
my stock FPP xts5k aside the red display XTS3000
http://img122.echo.cx/img122/6077/mvc004f5qs.jpg
closeup of the red display xts3k
http://img122.echo.cx/img122/8155/mvc005f1lo.jpg
closeup of the fpp xts5k
http://img122.echo.cx/img122/7528/mvc006f5xq.jpg
When I find more time I plan on changing the XTS5k display.
Also I don't have my blue and red LCD sabers with me at this time but I can get them later after lunch and post them.
Mike
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Did I miss something here?! The XTS5k is field programmable??! I guess this is a special feature, depending on the flash code? Or how else is this done?mike m wrote:OK here are the direct links, I hope this works
closeup of the fpp xts5k
http://img122.echo.cx/img122/7528/mvc006f5xq.jpg
Mike
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but the XTS are not so common here in good old europe :-)
regards - Ralph, dk5ras
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Here are my sabers
Blue saber display backlighting
http://img171.echo.cx/img171/8179/mvc002f4ks.jpg
Red saber display backlighting
http://img171.echo.cx/img171/8840/mvc004f1pi.jpg
The blue is ok for viewing at night but it is very very hard to get a decent pix with a digital camera, as you can see the red is nice and easy to shoot overall.
I brought the BLUE drive up about 15 mA over the stock values for a green backlight on the SABER display board and it is still very hard to get a good picture of it. I didn't have to change anything in the drive circutry for the RED backlighting.
Mike
Blue saber display backlighting
http://img171.echo.cx/img171/8179/mvc002f4ks.jpg
Red saber display backlighting
http://img171.echo.cx/img171/8840/mvc004f1pi.jpg
The blue is ok for viewing at night but it is very very hard to get a decent pix with a digital camera, as you can see the red is nice and easy to shoot overall.
I brought the BLUE drive up about 15 mA over the stock values for a green backlight on the SABER display board and it is still very hard to get a good picture of it. I didn't have to change anything in the drive circutry for the RED backlighting.
Mike
Nice work!
Nice work on the Blue/Red LED displays.
Would you be willing to share the part numbers / sources of the LEDS you used as replacements? This looks like a fun project!!
Would you be willing to share the part numbers / sources of the LEDS you used as replacements? This looks like a fun project!!
- Elroy Jetson
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Re: Boring Green on Display
How's this for "Not boring"?
Got the LEDs off of an ebay seller..from China. It worked out to 25 each, red, green, blue, and yellow, size 1206, for about 12 bucks or so, delivered. Not bad.
For this radio, 0805 size would actually be correct but I was able to make the 1206 size ones work. I actually needed a few known size
samples in hand before I was sure. Now that I've done that, I won't be ordering the wrong ones next time.
You need good soldering skills to handle 1206 package sizes. Better skills for 0805s. 3020s are relatively easy.
Quick trick: Clean the solder pads with solder wick first. Then tin ONE pad. Place the LED over it, apply gentle but firm downward
pressure on the LED, tap the tinned pad side with the soldering iron, and the LED settles right down. Then a quick tap with the soldering
iron and a very small bit of solder (use very fine gauge solder) and you're done. Very neat, clean, and professional.
Holding down the part while soldering it is truly the one trick that matters most.
Since THESE LEDs are larger than the designed pads on the display board, I placed them with the radio turned on, and held them in place
and soldered them while they were actually illuminated. Positioning was quite tricky.
It'd have been a lot easier with the right size LEDs.
Elroy
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- Elroy Jetson
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Re: Boring Green on Display
My first display mod ever was a UHF Saber II that I changed the backlights out on... to red.
This would have been about 1989 or 1990, or maybe '91. Somewhere around there.
So I guess I'm an "early adopter" or something.
Blue LEDs look good but as you noticed, there are output issues.
I think you will find that you can greatly improve the output of the blue LEDs by getting the
edge-emitting (side lighting) version. Kingbright makes them, at the very least. This makes
a lot of difference. I'll be putting four into my 7100IP (shown above) for the LCD backlighting,
once I get them.
The colors of this photo aren't quite like what it looks like in real life. The white you see is
actually yellow. The camera doesn't quite pick it up right. And all of the colors are a bit more
vivid than you seen on your monitor.
Elroy
This would have been about 1989 or 1990, or maybe '91. Somewhere around there.
So I guess I'm an "early adopter" or something.
Blue LEDs look good but as you noticed, there are output issues.
I think you will find that you can greatly improve the output of the blue LEDs by getting the
edge-emitting (side lighting) version. Kingbright makes them, at the very least. This makes
a lot of difference. I'll be putting four into my 7100IP (shown above) for the LCD backlighting,
once I get them.
The colors of this photo aren't quite like what it looks like in real life. The white you see is
actually yellow. The camera doesn't quite pick it up right. And all of the colors are a bit more
vivid than you seen on your monitor.
Elroy
Re: Boring Green on Display
^^ That's totally pimpin. Makes that ugly MACom radio look almost tolerable!
I'd love to do something similar to a 5000... black case, black sticker, blue LCD backlight, red keys.
I'd love to do something similar to a 5000... black case, black sticker, blue LCD backlight, red keys.
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Re: Boring Green on Display
I can see the new showcoming to Spike/MTV: "Pimp My Radio". The next thing that you'll do is put "Swarovski Crystals" around the display and a big "crystal" heart on the battery...
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Re: Boring Green on Display
smokeybehr wrote:I can see the new showcoming to Spike/MTV: "Pimp My Radio". The next thing that you'll do is put "Swarovski Crystals" around the display and a big "crystal" heart on the battery...
funny you should say that, there is a picture of a pinkBABY PHAT XTS5000 floating around, that someone photoshopped.
I cant find it on here or hamsexy though
-Jon
Re: Boring Green on Display
Courtesy of mikegilbert
Re: Boring Green on Display
Outstanding.
Lowband radio. The original and non-complicated wide area interoperable communications system