Did one more early this morning. I like this one as it uses all 5 color LEDs I have and they are not overly bright.
Color scheme is left side red and right side green like an airplane plus a blue on each leg plus 2 Amber's in back and 2 whites in front.
This gives me orientation in every direction with all LEDs inside except for the 4 blue on the legs which give me enough light to see where they will touch down. They point straight down instead of a 360 glow.
Really hard to type right now as im in a lot of kidney stone pain. I've got a 10mm+ one trying to block my left ureter. Got an xray this morning and saw my Urologist who immediately scheduled his next surgery opening this Friday as theres no chance it will pass. Was hoping to not have to go to the ER before the operation but the pain is almost too much.
Anyways, this time I didnt bother gluing down the ones inside the arms as they want to stay at the end as the wires push them that way.
Took a lot of soldering to wire 12 together and some hot glue to get all the wires and connections in place so theres nothing preventing the normal vibration dampers from working normal.
The blue directional leg ones came from an auto parts store and have super strong 3m tape. They were a 4 pack and around $20. They were also a pain because they have 1 wire each like a small pair of headphones and you had to remove the outer insulation and then scrape of the conformal coating from the wire ends after carefully separating them making sure no blue coated wires mixed in with the copper coated ones.
What I ended up doing was wiring them in groups and then adding another wire to connect them to the main.
So, theres the 4 blue arms soldered to the power wires then the 4 arm ones soldered together and then the front and rear all with an extra wire.
I soldered the wires for the arms and front/rear together with an extra wire and finally you end up with 2 wires for 8 LEDs and the 2 power/leg wires. Solder them together and that's it. It's all protected by conformal coating, shrink tubing and hot glue.
Still only draws about 144mA which again is basically meaningless for flight time.
One pic shows I had to slightly trim down the moon cuts where the drone fits in the case as the legs keep the drone up about 1/16" too high to shut.
