Airborne Trooper

I have a different model than you do, the bigger one so that's probably why. Was just curious to how you suit up in yours.

Figured out my noise issue was. I had a weak solder joint on one of the microphones. Easy fix and working great now. My question is how do you suit up? I have my power supply in my chest and ran the Cat5 though my neck seal. Connect my Cat5, turn on the power, and then don my helmet. My wife pulls the excess slack through and tucks it so it can't be seen. I'm considering maybe putting the power supply in one of my ammo pouches on my hips so it's a bit easier to turn on. The 5v automatically turns on but I have to push the button to get 12v on. It'll turn off after 5 or 10 seconds if it doesn't have a draw.

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I have ukswraths and have only had feedback if I turn the Amp2 all the way up. I have everything besides my Antigravity power supply in my bucket too.

Cool I was wondering how this sounds out the hovi speakers. If you could upload a video that would be even better.

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Personally, I would have recommended you not cutting it off at all and then filling any ridges you may not like with apoxie sculpt or ABS paste. But since that ship has sailed, I would cut a straight line starting from the inner portion of the notch all the way up. Get some spare abs sheets to make a backer and a shim. Make sure you curve the shim prior to gluing it in or they will stick out like crazy. Erase all seems with ABS paste or apoxie sculpt.

I think the fitment looks pretty good. Try putting some foam on the top of your shin and it should point it out enough so it doesn't catch. If it's still bugging you, trim the shins at the bottom maybe 1/8" or 1/4" at a time, put the complete legs and boots on and walk around. Don't want to cut too much off

Really cool idea!

Interested in a case if you do a run. LMK, I don't have the energy to hunt down a local printer and haggle prices with them right now.

Well since you have a ROMFX, I'd like to see read your opinion. I know that the ROMFX is better than the iCOMM and seeing how this allows more options it may be a good replacement without breaking the bank and pissing off the wife lol

That looks awesome!

Same thing goes on in my house. Took me a while to get all the parts and after waiting 6 months with no reply from Echo, ukswrath releases his own mount and I was able to finish. It wasn't hard putting it all together so this project seems pretty fun.

If you check out ukswrath's Gen 4 electronic thread, I have mine setup exactly like that. Should be easy enough and if it's 5v I shouldn't need to do anything but splice a USB to JST connector and plug it in my harness.

I think you've got me sold. Sounds like an awesome Winter project. Just gotta figure out how to wire it in my current ukswrath setup. The iComm has it's own battery so I may have to treat this more like a ROMFX and put a voltage regulator in.

Very awesome project you have here. Kind of hard to tell from your video on page 1 but does this change the sound of your voice or just add the radio static sound? I am looking at an alternative to my iCOMM as it takes up a lot of space in my helmet but not ready to throw down a lot of money on a ROMFX card.

Technically it does melt in some as that's how it bonds. You can't just scratch this off with your fingernail. You literally have to sand it away layer by layer.

First coat looks good. Getting the air bubbles out of the abs paste is a PITA.

Congrats, Angie! I haven't been around a lot lately here since I've been trying to breathe some life into MEPD but it seems the site is once again not working. Armor looks great and glad you finally got it and assembled. Now, you need to look into building a sandtrooper

I put my headphones in and I was getting some bad noise. It should be quiet other than picking up audio. Maybe I should go back and check the solder for the mics? I have it connected to the 12v circuit, wired together with the Amp2. Sorry these photos were taken before I put the mic JST lines in.

All wired up! Only thing I have noticed is there is a lot of noise coming from the SHA. I will put everything in my bucket and play with the wires but if it continues, I'll go back to a separate power.

I'll take some pictures tonight and more once I get the bracket it. The hardest part was getting the solder out of the Anker2 PCB. I have a crappy 4xAA battery soldering iron though. I ended up taking a really tiny drill bit to it and finishing it off with the soldering iron. Now I just have to think what I am going to do with the spare line.

Ok, I get it now. I thought for some reason it was providing power from 12v and also 5v. I see now that all it is doing is going from a 3.5mm mono cable > JST > Red and Yellow portion of the ethernet harness > ethernet cable > ethernet harness > Red and Yellow > JST > Mono > MP3 Player. I'm beginning my wiring today in anticipation for my bracket to arrive.

Glad I have one of your brackets on the way as well as the remaining pieces from Amazon. Giving me another use out of my power supply than just powering fans and playing Pokemon Go! One thing you don't really cover in the tutorial but it's in the schematics is the 3.5mm cable being wired into the RJ45 female harness and plugged into the Amp2. What's confusing is then the Amp2's 7.4 voltage reducer plugs into the on/off switch and into 12v power portion of the RJ45 female harness. What's the purpose for that?

Joseph here on the forums sells a fantastic latex hand guard. Pair those with some chemical gloves you can pick up at Lowes/Home Depot and you're good to go. I already had a pair so Joseph's went on my flight gloves as chemical gloves make my hands super sweaty and its what I prefer to troop in.