Do I need a data resistor in my blade?

Sabers
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The only blades I’ve built personally have been using KR V2 pixel sticks, and there was no additional resistor required inside the blade itself.

Now I’m repairing a blade built by someone else that uses the traditional method of gluing 2 strips together. The blade PCB has a resistor on it.

The amount of glue leftover and some minor damage incurred in the process of removing the PCB makes me just want to use a new one.

My question is, since my data line is already resistored inside my saber(data1), is it necessary to add another resistor up on the new blade PCB?

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Nope, no need if you’re only going to use it with sabers you know already have the resistor either on the data pin on the board or on the in hilt pcb

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Ok, that makes sense.

New question then, if it has an SMD footprint, do I need to bridge it? I have a few Shtok V2.5 blade PCBs laying around.

If that’s the case, I might as well just hot air a resistor on.

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Yeah you need to bridge the pads if not using a resistor so if you’ve got resistors might as well put one on. A few in line won’t hurt

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Awesome. Thank you.