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Make you own wearable arc reactor and be cooler than Tony Stark!

Step 7Making your power source!!

Making your power source!!
This is a pretty easy step.

1. Take your battery pack and soler a long (long enough to reach the center of your chest from your belt and then some) wire to it. tape the connection to the pack if you want.

2. solder you positive lead to the center of your slide switch.

3. solder a long strand of wire to either other pin of the swich.

4.attach switch to power pack and insulate connections

5. solder positive long wire to positive end of arc reactor (resistor end)

6 Solder negative long wire to cathode of led.

7. affix wires securely to arc reactor module.

done!
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3 comments
Jun 8, 2008. 2:08 PMmanny123456789 says:
I am stuck on this step. What do you do for the switch? it doesn't work any way that I have tried.
Jun 10, 2008. 5:34 PMmanny123456789 says:
I just realized that my battery pack had a switch built into it...I feel kind of stupid now.
Jun 10, 2008. 7:56 PMmanny123456789 says:
My Arc reactor caught me on fire because I tried to super charge the thing
Sep 20, 2008. 4:26 PMmettaurlover says:
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! so funny... did it hurt? cause it hurts laughing so hard about it!!!!! you should join my group. it's for people who do things like that...
May 26, 2008. 7:32 AMjeff-o says:
In revision 2 you could use just two AA or AAA batteries (3V is enough to run a single blue LED) and fit them right inside the arc generator module... then you won't have to run wires at all.

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