Re: *New* The Ultimate Light Mod
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OK KITT is right about my mods I do them because I love messing with electronics and the fact that nobody has thought of the idea except people saying ‘Wouldnt it be great to have a FULLY functional light kit for one of these micro racers’ Which I of course have made it happen and im very proud to of done it. Im selling them to people to give them a chance at owning the mod I have created, as I know for a fact I will get loads of emails asking how it can be done and will you be selling it. So thats why ivedecided to sell it, and remember its only for people who want to show off their bitcharg and say, look at this! I can even turn the head lights on/off with the remote control.
OK now the reason of high cost. But first let me make it known I do not have a factory full of workers making these by the 1000s I make them when orders are placed.
I dont make much profit on these as you will see why in the pics and the description below.
It took me roughly 60 hours to design the program for the PIC chip. This isnt easy but its very challenging and fun to do. Also the PIC chips arent cheap as well as the actual PIC programmer you have to buy and then you have to buy a special adaptor to fit the SMD PIC chips in
I then have to design the circuit board on microsoft word using the art part of it. Again it isnt easy to design your own PCB. As well as calculate all the correct value resistors and capacitors
I then have to make the boards by etching and developing them again I have to buy the Photo resist board and all the correct fluids to develop them.
Then all the boards have to be cut to the right size.
Of course there is also the cost of components which the white LEDs alone cost 1.60GBP each then there is the other LEDs. Plus all the SMD resistors and capacitors.
And then the actual soldering of the very tiny components to the PCB is very fiddley but at the end of the day the result is worth it.
The reason why I charge more to fit it is because the LEDs take a good while to solder the wire onto them and then you have to make sure ts shaped to the body and then glue them into place.
Thats most of it covered so I wont bore everybody anymore with other things but you can probably work other costs and time out.
