Sean Wills' Refit Enterprise

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The portholes are all fiber optics and the longer windows are filled with clear resin. The light in the primary hull is transferred to the circumference by a 1/8" circle of Plexiglas with a hole cut in it. While this works fairly well if I could do it over I would use white LEDs instead of the fluorescent tube for the saucer. There are separate lamps located under the impulse deflection crystal and by the shuttle bay to light up the impulse engines and the shuttle bay windows. Everything is run off a 6 volt 1800 mA power supply through a DIN connection and into the ship. I chose not to light up the warp engines with LightSheet because I can't stand the high pitched whine of the LightDrive. However, if I could do it again I would choose to include this on a separate circuit because the light scheme seems incomplete to me now.

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