So I had an idea to illuminate the GGTS from the inside, so light could shine through all of the holes on the bottom cap.
It started off well, but kinda ended in failure.
Here is my story:
I started off by looking for something I could use as a cap to attach to a battery, while being able to have some sort of contact between the battery and center pole of the atty adapter. After a bit of digging around, I came across some silicone ear tips that I don't use that came with my Apple in-ear earphones.
First, I set everything up on the desk. I got my soldering station out, some solder, some clippers, heatshrink tubing, wires scraps from an old USB cable, exacto knife, 10k resistor, UV led, the center post from a 510 atty, the GGTS for fitting and a battery.
First thing I had to do was trim off about half of the center part of the silicone ear tip. I did this by flipping it inside out, then used the exacto knife to trim off the rubber.
Here you can see the brass post from the 510 atty I removed to use as the contact between the battery and the atty connector of the GGTS.
And this is how it looks fitted inside the trimmed silicon ear tip. A perfect fit!
Next thing to do was to solder some wire to the contact.
Then I fed the wire through the top of the tip and pushed the contact into the rubber post until it was flush fit.
Here's how it looked fitted onto the battery, again a perfect fit!
Ok, so now I had to solder the resistor to the positive contact of the LED. Nice and sloppy (it's been a while since I soldered anything)....
Then I slid on some of the heatshrink tubing onto the wire before soldering the end onto the resistor.
And applied some heat from a lighter to shrink the tubing.
Ok, so at this point I have the battery cap finished and ready to go, as well as the LED. Now I had to figure out how to attach the ground from the LED to complete the circuit.
Everything was going great until this point. This is where I started to fart up a storm in my brain. At first I thought I could bend the little leg into a shape and wedge it into the spring.
But I quickly realized this was not the smartest idea since the spring is already making contact with the ground from the battery, and so as soon as the battery is put into the GGTS the LED would light. Not what I had in mind.
So... I tried wedging it into the brass end.
But that didn't work so well. So then I got some tiny magnets and tried wedging those in. It seemed to do the trick.... kinda....
It lit up ok, but the UV leds are pretty dim and the light wasn't evenly distributed at the bottom through the holes. A disappointing end result.
So I played around with a glow in the dark button clicky from a flashlight by trimming off the rim to get a ring of glow in the dark rubber. I cut a slit and fit it around the pole in the brass end. Then I wedged the negative wire from the LED in with another piece of rubber.
This is the end result:
Kinda disappointing... and 3 hours later I'm not all that happy with it. But hey, I'm not giving up just yet... I'll see what else I can come up with. I'd like a much brighter output, and I don't want glow in the dark green color either.. I want light shining through all of the holes somehow.
Any creative input is more than welcome!
It started off well, but kinda ended in failure.
Here is my story:
I started off by looking for something I could use as a cap to attach to a battery, while being able to have some sort of contact between the battery and center pole of the atty adapter. After a bit of digging around, I came across some silicone ear tips that I don't use that came with my Apple in-ear earphones.
First, I set everything up on the desk. I got my soldering station out, some solder, some clippers, heatshrink tubing, wires scraps from an old USB cable, exacto knife, 10k resistor, UV led, the center post from a 510 atty, the GGTS for fitting and a battery.
First thing I had to do was trim off about half of the center part of the silicone ear tip. I did this by flipping it inside out, then used the exacto knife to trim off the rubber.
Here you can see the brass post from the 510 atty I removed to use as the contact between the battery and the atty connector of the GGTS.
And this is how it looks fitted inside the trimmed silicon ear tip. A perfect fit!
Next thing to do was to solder some wire to the contact.
Then I fed the wire through the top of the tip and pushed the contact into the rubber post until it was flush fit.
Here's how it looked fitted onto the battery, again a perfect fit!
Ok, so now I had to solder the resistor to the positive contact of the LED. Nice and sloppy (it's been a while since I soldered anything)....
Then I slid on some of the heatshrink tubing onto the wire before soldering the end onto the resistor.
And applied some heat from a lighter to shrink the tubing.
Ok, so at this point I have the battery cap finished and ready to go, as well as the LED. Now I had to figure out how to attach the ground from the LED to complete the circuit.
Everything was going great until this point. This is where I started to fart up a storm in my brain. At first I thought I could bend the little leg into a shape and wedge it into the spring.
But I quickly realized this was not the smartest idea since the spring is already making contact with the ground from the battery, and so as soon as the battery is put into the GGTS the LED would light. Not what I had in mind.
So... I tried wedging it into the brass end.
But that didn't work so well. So then I got some tiny magnets and tried wedging those in. It seemed to do the trick.... kinda....
It lit up ok, but the UV leds are pretty dim and the light wasn't evenly distributed at the bottom through the holes. A disappointing end result.
So I played around with a glow in the dark button clicky from a flashlight by trimming off the rim to get a ring of glow in the dark rubber. I cut a slit and fit it around the pole in the brass end. Then I wedged the negative wire from the LED in with another piece of rubber.
This is the end result:
Kinda disappointing... and 3 hours later I'm not all that happy with it. But hey, I'm not giving up just yet... I'll see what else I can come up with. I'd like a much brighter output, and I don't want glow in the dark green color either.. I want light shining through all of the holes somehow.
Any creative input is more than welcome!
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