Problems with the white light

[Linkthealmighty]

I have a vniti blade wired with a GT point. Today at practice after it took a fairly hard whack from a beat attack the white light started going off over and over again. I've changed the tip and spring and I've checked along the wire to see if I could see any breaks and found none. There are two spots where the wire has come off the blade in a sort of hump but it looks fairly insulated still. I'm at a loss here for what the problem could be. Let me know what you all think the problem could be and if there's any way to get out of re-wiring the blade.
Thanks

[DHCJr]

Those humps are they sharp. Losing insulation would not cause white lights. In fact it would cause the oposite problem, no lights. What you have is a break somewhere in the system. If the spring does not seat properly that is one problem. I usually take out the tip and spring and then with a jewelers screwdriver, I touch the contact at the bottom of the cup and the side of the barrel to see if there is a connection. The barrel may be lose, another problem. One of those bumps may contain a break in the wire. There may be a break at the connector. Even the body cord may have gone bad from the hit. Short out the body cord against the guard to test that.

In short, what you are looking for is a break.

[Morion]

Did you check to see if the wire connection at the guard side was still good. They can occasionally break but still be held in place by the spaghetti tubing.

[Linkthealmighty]

I glanced over that really quickly before I had to change weapons but it didn't seem broken. I'll check again though when I get some time to work on it

[Linkthealmighty]

Ok, so I just checked the blade and I think there's a break in the wire. I took an Ohm meter and with one end touching the tip I ran the other lead down the wire and found two or three points where the meter measured something other than 0 (which I'm told is infinate). Other than that I know it isn't the body cord, the conection in the socket seems still good so all I can figure is that there is a break somewhere in the wire. Let me know if there could be something else wrong, I really don't feel like rewireing my blade this week.
Thanks

[Morion]

????

The only point you should read anything other than a short is at the opposite end ot the wire.

Disconnect the wire from the connector at the guard end. Measure from the contact to the end of the wire. Open (or infinite resistance) = rewire.

Then measure from the end of the wire to bare metal on the blade. Short (or really low resistance) = rewire.

[penguin_2000]

unlikely to have a break along the blade unless the wire is really sticking up. probably separated the wire from the contact in the barrel... which would mean a re-wire.

[Linkthealmighty]

I get the feeling that it's going to be one of those weeks.

[mrbiggs]

Originally Posted by penguin_2000

unlikely to have a break along the blade unless the wire is really sticking up. probably separated the wire from the contact in the barrel... which would mean a re-wire.

i've seen it a bunch of times. Quick and dirty way to test it is to bend the blade one way or another; if that solves the problem, it is probably a small break in the wire.

[Linkthealmighty]

I'll give that a try before I re-wire