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Just started my build since I had to wait on a couple of switches and My acrylic isn't pink like it was orderd. Also the USB was crooked but I fixed that with some force.
Would like to know how we can get this fixed since it has switches soldered in already.
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It looks neon pink when held up to the light but when sandwiched it looks orange to me. Does it not look pink at all to you?
It looks pink in direct light indeed, saw that later but still in a sandwiched case that isn't the situation so it will just keep looking orange. Which isn't something you would want.
Agreed completely! I was wondering if I was just losing it or something because I kept seeing pink in the picture where you are holding it up and it can be seen though, then I noticed it looked decidedly orange when sandwiched. Just wanted to make sure that I was seeing things properly!
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The more I think about it the more I remember having some acrylic that was neon pink like yours and I remember it being orange when looked at from the side when it wasn't lit up enough to see through it. Maybe some bright white internal LEDs would help?
Ah, no you saw it all good ;)
Well I wasn't planning on using LEDS and it will need to be both at the bottom and the top of the PCB. I mean I can but some LEDs revesed in but that wouldn't be ideal I think. Rather just have it looking Pink but LEDs might be the only way to get it somewhat decently done :/
Yeah, it would take quite a few of them to make it bright enough to shine through properly, they might even draw too much power making the Golbat not work properly. I remember someone earlier in the tread posting that they had issues with LEDs, I think they were SMD LEDs but my memory is terribly so I may be wrong, because they were pulling too much power and causing issues.
Bright light was the only thing that made my older acrylic show up as pink when looking from the side but I am not sure that would work here. You could test it out by assembling the case without the PCB and shining some light though the sides (out of the case wouldn't give you the same results) to see if it will show up as pink and not orange because even bright light may not make it show completely pink from the sides. If so that would be the way I would go but I prefer LEDs in my stuff whereas you didn't have plans to add them.
One other option is to find someone who can cut acrylic, like what is included in the Golbat kit, and get a sheet of pink acrylic that is more clear or lighter and get it cut. That would probably be the better way to do it if you don't want to add LEDs.
