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Blade format decides what a blade can draw. In Base Lit format a single high-power LED sits in the hilt and fires up a diffusing tube, so the whole blade lights as one — bright, robust, inexpensive, and uniform from emitter to tip. In Neopixel format the light source is a strip of individually addressable LEDs running the full length of the blade, which means the board can decide what each segment does at each instant.
That distinction is usually about ignition style and effects. On a Darksaber it is the whole look. A dark centre with a narrow luminous rim is, by definition, different light in different places along the same blade — exactly what a per-pixel strip exists to do and exactly what a single hilt lamp cannot resolve. A Base Lit Darksaber gives you the silhouette, the sound and the presence; it does not reproduce the edge-lit core the same way. If the effect is the reason you want one, that decides it. Neopixel vs Base Lit covers the general trade-off, and what a Neopixel lightsaber actually is covers the format from scratch.
One thing worth stating plainly, because it trips people up: what you are choosing is a format and a profile, not a fixed hilt colour. Blade colour and effects are set by you afterwards — in the Xenopixel configurator app, in the Proffie config, or on the hilt for RGBx. Any saber here can be made to look like something else entirely on a Tuesday.
Both are soundboards, both drive the same Neopixel blade, and neither is a blade format — the two get muddled constantly. The difference is how much of the system you want to be responsible for.
Xenopixel V3 arrives configured. Thirty-plus sound fonts, gesture ignition, smooth swing, blaster block and flash-on-clash all work the moment you charge it, and colour and effect changes are made through the configurator app on your phone. Most people who want the Darksaber for what it looks like should stop here.
Proffie V2.2 is the open-source board. It runs the same hardware to a different philosophy: everything is exposed in a config file, fonts and blade styles can be authored rather than selected, and if you want a bespoke Darksaber ignition that behaves exactly one way, this is the board that will do it. It rewards being fiddled with. Our Proffie vs Xenopixel comparison goes deeper, and the wider ranges are at Xenopixel lightsabers and Proffie lightsabers.
There is a Base Lit Darksaber on this page — Model Mando, running the RGBx soundboard, which is the board that pairs with Base Lit. It is a genuinely separate hilt design rather than the Neopixel hilt with cheaper internals, it carries the same flat removable blade and the same angular profile, and it costs meaningfully less. Sound fonts, blaster block, flash-on-clash and smooth swing are all there, and colour is set on the hilt.
Choose it if you want the shape, the weight and the sound on a smaller budget. Choose Neopixel if the edge-lit blade is the point. Both are legitimate answers to different questions. The full Base Lit range is at Base Lit lightsabers.
The Spin is the most interesting product on this page and the one most likely to be misread. It is built on the Eco Pogo Core system, and the core takes two different blade-shape inserts: a standard round blade, or the flat Darksaber profile. Same hilt, two completely different weapons depending on what you slot in.
The practical consequence: this is the only hilt here that can be a Darksaber for display and a sensible sparring saber on a different afternoon, which is a real answer to the duelling problem below.
The legacy version of this page cheerfully told people to go and recreate their favourite battles with it. The honest answer is a matter of degree: light clashing is fine with a flat blade; full-out duelling is not. A flat blade concentrates impact along an edge instead of spreading it around a tube, so it takes light contact and choreography perfectly well, but it is not the tool for a heavy bout.
For full-contact sparring, run the Spin’s round blade, or start from the duelling lightsabers range, which is built for it. Lightsaber forms explained is a decent starting point if you are new to it.
Taking the Neopixel Model Mando as the reference build: a 32.5 cm aluminium alloy hilt, a 76 cm flat polycarbonate blade that removes for storage, a 50 watt RGB Neopixel strip, a 2–3 watt speaker, a 3000 mAh 18650 safety cell, and a charging cable. Effects run to stable, unstable, rainbow, candy, pulse, fire and cracked, with multiple ignition styles and 30-plus fonts. One warning that matters: charge only with a 5V 1A maximum charger. Spare and replacement blades live in saber blades.
Boards are fitted and configured by our own technicians in the UK, which counts for most on Proffie, where the config is half of what you are buying. Cover runs to 12 months as standard, and repairs@padawanoutpost.com reaches the same bench that assembled the saber rather than a ticket queue. There is no shipping charge on any lightsaber to the UK, EU or US, and none on other orders above £60. Everything listed is a replica-style build inspired by the screen weapon, not officially licensed.
Blade colour and effects are yours to set, not fixed at the factory — Xenopixel through the configurator app, Proffie through the config file, RGBx on the hilt. What Neopixel format makes possible is the dark-core-with-lit-edge treatment the Darksaber is known for, because that needs addressable pixels along the blade. It is a profile you run, not a property of the metal.
Xenopixel if you want it working beautifully out of the box with app-based control. Proffie if you want to author blade styles and fonts yourself. Both drive the same Neopixel blade to the same brightness.
Same hilt silhouette, same flat blade, same sound and effects, but not the same edge-lit core — a single LED in the hilt lights the whole blade evenly by design. It is the cheaper route to the shape, not to the effect.
One. The Xenopixel and Proffie versions accept both the round and the flat Darksaber insert, but only the blade you select is supplied.
Light clashing with the flat blade is fine; full-out duelling is not. For that, use a round blade, either on the Spin or from the duelling range.
Blade format is how the blade produces light: Base Lit or Neopixel. Soundboard is the electronics driving it: RGBx pairs with Base Lit, while Xenopixel and Proffie pair with Neopixel. Choose the format first, then the board.
On the Darksaber page — origin, the Vizsla line and the rule about winning it in combat.
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