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Figure 3 – Basic wiring for Spark Color 2™. This will drive a single main LED and would require a removable battery for charging. Note that a
resistor between the blue wire and C1- of TruDrive™ would be needed if the LED is red, amber, or red-orange.
4.2.
RGB WIRING
The preferred setup of Spark Color 2™ is to use an RGB LED. This allows the use of all the popular Igniter™ specific
features, such as separate colors for clash/lockup and blaster, ClashShade™, BlastShade™, and BladeShade™, and
the popular R4 feature Saber Dual Phase™.
The recommended LED to use with this setup is the NECree RGB LED that is sold right from our store! This LED was
specifically designed to have the brightest possible colors throughout the entire color range, and can do vivid
oranges, purples and other mixed colors that other LEDs cannot do as well. Another good choice is the standard
TriCrees that you can get from the custom saber shop.
The following diagram shows the NECree RGB wiring
Figure 4 – Wiring up Spark Color 2™ with the NECree RGB LED. This setup uses RGB wiring and allows for full color-mixing for main blade and
blade effects. Notice that the diode for the red is built-on and thus no external resistance is needed!
4.3.
RGBW/RGBA/RGBX WIRING
With Spark Color 2™ a fourth die can be utilized for even more flash effects, and even more main blade colors! The
following diagram shows an X4 RGBW, but any combination for a fourth die could be used. For instance, an RGBA
LED would allow for very rich purples not previously available under the standard RGB color mixing model.
