I was confused as to why the port side indicators on the saucer section weren't lighting when they were so tediously tested and constructed.  I took apart the fibre driver on the top that was easiest to get to and disassembled the LED, plugged it directly into the circuit board and it still didn't light.  Knowing I tested it with my mini-kit before I assembled it, I connected it to the kit again just to perform a sanity check.

     And it lit.

     I then put the last smaller one right onto the same leads and it switched over to the smaller one, immediately telling me the current requirement for what looked like an identical LED was different then all the rest in the ship!

     I went to a couple of Radio Shacks in the neighborhood and none of them had LEDs with the same current requirements as the rest of the ones in the ship (four of them), so it looks like I get to design another circuit path for these LEDs, and try to match the brightness of all the port side indicator lights on the finished product.

     While I was in Radio Shack I got a number of resistors of differing values so that I may adjust the resistance (and thus brightness) of all the lights on the ship, per the minimum resistance values previously calculated (8/01/01_2).

     I have changed the resistance values for the following Ohm values (they look better - the nacelles look good and the port / starboard indicators are bright and happy) -

red (bussard, impulse) - 100
nacelles - 20
deflector - 20
port, starboard indicators - 100, 100

    I'm still figuring out what to do with the stray LED, portside, lower -  I get to mess with the resistance values...