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A Neopixel blade is a polycarbonate tube with a strip of individually addressable LEDs bonded inside it, wrapped in diffusion so the strip reads as one continuous blade rather than a row of dots. Because every LED is driven separately, the blade does things a single light source cannot: ignite and retract as a travelling wave, flash white at the exact point where it is struck, take a blaster bolt at one spot along its length, or flicker unstably from end to end.
This is the most useful distinction to hold on to, and the one most often got wrong.
Base Lit and Neopixel are the two blade formats. A Base Lit blade is a hollow diffuser tube lit by a high-power LED seated in the hilt; a Neopixel blade carries its own LED strip.
RGBx, Xenopixel and Proffie are soundboards — the electronics inside the hilt that drive the blade and play the fonts. RGBx pairs with Base Lit only. Xenopixel and Proffie pair with Neopixel only. They do not cross over, so the blade format decision comes first and the soundboard follows from it.
It also settles the colour question. Colour and effects are configured on the soundboard, not fixed to the hilt — the same blade will run whatever colour and font you set.
This page holds our speciality blades: daylight-visible blades, a lightning-effect blade, and the replacement side blades for the KY1 crossguard hilt. Some are offered in Base Lit as well as Neopixel, so read the option list on the product page before ordering. For the standard combat and replacement blades in 1" and 7/8" — the ones most people are after — go to saber blades; for hilts, chassis and fittings, see lightsaber parts.
Diameter is the thing to check first: 1" is the common size, 7/8" the thin-neck alternative, and each product page states which it is. Neopixel blades are built for contact and will take duelling, but treat a blade as a consumable — it is the part designed to absorb the hits, and heavy sparring wears one out long before the hilt. Our technicians are in-house in the UK, and every saber we install carries a 12-month warranty. Shipping is free to the UK, EU and US on all lightsabers, and free on other orders over £60.
A Base Lit blade is an empty diffuser tube lit by an LED in the hilt, so it glows evenly from the base out. A Neopixel blade holds its own strip of individually addressable LEDs, so it can ignite as a travelling wave and flash at the exact point of a clash.
Xenopixel or Proffie. RGBx drives Base Lit blades only and cannot run a Neopixel strip.
No. The hilt has to be wired for a Neopixel blade and fitted with a Xenopixel or Proffie soundboard to drive the strip. A Base Lit hilt on RGBx takes a hollow diffuser blade instead.
Whatever you set it to. Colour and effects are configured on the soundboard, not fixed to the hilt.
Yes — they are polycarbonate and made for contact sparring. Treat the blade as a consumable, though: it is the part built to take the hits, and it wears before the hilt does.
Check the blade neck on your hilt. 1" is standard and 7/8" is the thin-neck size; every blade product page states its diameter.
Email repairs@padawanoutpost.com. We have in-house technicians in the UK, and every saber we install carries a 12-month warranty.
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