Project: Eagle 5 - Spaceballs PC

[TheGreatSatan]

I'm gonna finish my HDPC first, then I'll try using brushes for the brown stripes.

[Airbozo]

I have to admit to having one of these as a kid. I remember it was some light metal (not sure, things that long ago are fuzzy). I also remember this yellowish greeninsh primer I used in the navy that would stick to _anything_ and bond directly with the metal (you would have to remove some of the metal to get it off). Not sure of the name, but I will look it up. It would even bond with corroded aluminum and provide a base for filler. Once you paint it, it becomes one with the paint too.

[TheGreatSatan]

As soon as the Superbee is done, this worklog will reopen. I had real problems getting the HD's to behave in my HD PC and I won't let the pitfalls of this mod stop me from completing it.

See you mid-Sept.

[Cannibal23]

please please please tell me your going to try to do the bumper sticker. that would be clasic.

[TheGreatSatan]

Bumper sticker and side decal

[Cannibal23]

sweetness. so i have a question for you regarding the ligting. your going to need voltage supplies of 5 and or 12 volts. i thought everything inside a ups would be bigger then that seeing as it is dealing with wall current. where do you intend to find these voltages?

[Airbozo]

FYI in one of the ups' I tore apart there are several different voltages to use. If I remeber right there is even a clean 12v, 5v, and 48v signal on the monitoring board.

[Cannibal23]

awesome. i was planning to do a ups mod for a long time. i even got a few spare ups's to use incase it didnt work out so well. my big concern was where to get the voltage for the cathode tube and then where to put the darn thing. guess i should have used my head and looked or logicaly though that out. if its going to led's on the front to tell you how many minutes are left then its going to have all kinds of diffrent voltages. wonder how much of an impact stealing 12v from it is going to make on its internal system. like the one that detects a falut with the ups. guess i will have to go play now lol

[Airbozo]

Seeing as how most of my mods are _always_ built for being upgradeable, wouldn't it be better to just plug a transformer into the regular plug and get your voltage from there?

Although with a ups it really does not matter since what usually need replacing are the batteries. If I remeber right, on one of my APC ups' there was even a lead to pull the different signals off of (battery level, load level, AC power...) APC even has cool software to monitor the ups using a serial cable. (as do all of the ups companies)

[TheGreatSatan]

I'm trying to recreate the sticker on the door just like:

But due to lack of any useful software and very little in the way of skills....

And I painted the other side with no problems.