Feb
24

Disassemble and painting Sony NEX flash

I’ve recently painted the NEX flash to be black to match my body better. Here are steps to disassemble the flash and some pictures.

the grey flash
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Remove the side tabs by prying them, they are held by double sided tape
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Remove the 4 black screws, 2 at each side
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Remove the small piece of metal and put it aside, this metal is so small. I dropped it and it took me half an hour to find it in my crowded room
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Disassemble by pulling the top cover off
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Pull the metal rod out
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Preparing for spray painting
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A stage to hold the side covers
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Painting in progress
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Paint used is Krylon Fusion for plastic – satin black
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Painting done
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Reassembled
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Final result, the Sony Nex-5N with Vivitar Series 1 90mm f2.5 (Bokina)
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Aug
08

Dash light error delete

As you all know, there’ll be error indicators when changing from halogen to xenon due to different loading of the bulb. In my case the error persists on the dash but the xenon can still be powered up but they flickers. To mimick the load of halogen, capacitors were installed so that during LCM test they will drain current (to charge up) fooling the LCM that the bulb is okay. After installing the capacitor, xenon will no longer flicker. Please refer to earlier post for picture and value of capacitor. Unlike resistor that gets hot during operation because it dissipates power in the form of heat, capacitor does not. In a DC environment, capacitor only uses power to charge and once it’s full there’ll be no current flowing through it.

So thats the deal with my low beam warning, no warning for high beam because I’m still using halogen. Warning left is the parking/pilot lamp because they are removed due to no place to put in a quad projector setup. Unlike the low beam which is high powered, the parking lamp bulb is marked as 5W so it is cancelled with resistors. Not to keen to write anymore so on to pictures, leave me question if you have any..
Error in INPA

Putting the resistor in

One side down, another side to go

Jul
05

Quad projector project cost

E46 quad projector project cost breakdown as below

E46 bi-xenon projector set – RM464
FX-R projectors – RM382
HID D2S ballast + bulb – RM151
E46 replica shroud – RM89
Yellow Philips H7 bulbs – RM76
Paints – RM70
Relays etc – RM60
D2S harness – RM27

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