I am starting to think that lighting the cargo bay of the Revell’s Razor Crest is a bad idea. This means I had halt production to re-do the programming of the chip, redesign the circuit board and get more components to prototype the changes. There is a very high chance that I am going to miss the June deadline if I keep doing this at the current pace. Yeah, I got a new Job.
THE NEW PCB
One of the issues with the Razor Crest’s cargo bay is that it has FOUR lights (you heard ’em, Jean-Luc) located at the ceiling corners where the two side entrances are. You’d need to drill out four holes and then insert four 2mm warm-white LEDs through it. This step creates 8 unnecessary wires and you have to secure the LEDs with some epoxy. Therefore, the redesigned PCB will follow the shape of the ceiling. This not only solves the problem but also, as a means to anchor the PCB into the model too.
Anyway, I must finalise the new PCB, errors or no, by this weekend because the PCB turn-around qill take about 3 weeks on average. I will have less than a month to light and paint the model. I could speed things up but then, this would not make me feel at easy since I would feel guilty with all the possible shortcuts I need to take. Ha ha.
