LIGHT MY BRICKS 10256 Manual

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Light My Bricks: Taj Mahal Lighting Kit

The following page is instructions for the Light My Bricks LEGO Taj Mahal

(10256) LED light kit. You purchase this kit on our official website.

To ensure a trouble-free installation of your light kit, please read and follow

each step carefully.

Package contents:

8x White 30cm Bit Lights

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9x White Strip Lights

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2x Multi Colour Strip Lights

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6x 6-Port Expansion Boards

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7x 30cm Connecting Cables

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10x 15cm Connecting Cables

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1x USB Power Cable 30cm

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6x Adhesive Squares

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1x 8-Port Expansion Board

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Page 1 Light My Bricks: Taj Mahal Lighting Kit The following page is instructions for the Light My Bricks LEGO Taj Mahal (10256) LED light kit. You purchase this kit on our official website. To ensure a trouble-free installation of your light kit, please read and follow each step carefully.
Page 2 LEGO Pieces 9x LEGO Plate 1x6 (any colour) • 4x Plate 1x2 (any colour) • . . . Important things to note: Laying cables in between and underneath bricks Cables can t in between and underneath LEGO® bricks, plates, and tiles providing they are laid correctly between the LEGO®...
Page 3 CAUTION: Forcing LEGO® to connect over a cable can result in damaging the cable and light. Connecting cable connectors to Expansion Boards Take extra care when inserting connectors to ports of Expansion Boards. Connectors can be inserted only one way. With the expansion board facing up, look for the soldered “=”...
Page 4 Doing so will damage the plug and the connector. Installing Bit Lights under LEGO® bricks and plates. When installing Bit Lights under LEGO® pieces, ensure they are placed the correct way up (Yellow LED component exposed). You can either place them directly on top of LEGO®...
Page 5 OK, Let’s Begin! Instructions for this Kit 1.) Start by removing the center tower as well as the second level of theTaj Mahal. 2.) Disconnect the four towers.
Page 6 3.) Take one of the towers and disconnect the roof as per below: Take a White 30cm Bit Light and stick it underneath the roof in the centre using an Adhesive Square.
Page 7 4.) Reconnect the roof ensuring the cable from the Bit Light is facingone of the corners, then disconnect the bottom of the tower from the below position:...
Page 8 5.) Take the top of the tower and then disconnect the following piecesfrom the bottom:...
Page 9 Gently pull apart the two upper round wall sections and then slip the Bit Light cable inside. Lay the cable down the middle of the wall sections and then close them up.
Page 10 Reconnect the two lower wall sections ensuring the Bit Light cable is laid down the middle. Thread the end of the Bit Light Cable down the top of the round plate below and then thread the cable down the bottom of the white dish.
Page 11 Reconnect both pieces to the bottom of the top section of the tower. 6.) Take the bottom half of the tower and then disconnect sections andpieces as per below:...
Page 12 7.) Insert the black rod with red pieces attached back to the top half ofthe tower.
Page 13 Thread the Bit Light Cable down the top of the section below before reconnecting both round wall pieces as well as the round plate below ensuring the Bit Light cable is threaded down the middle.
Page 14 8.) Take the lower section of the tower and then disconnect the blackrod with round red piece attached. 9.) Thread the Bit Light cable through the white dish below and thenreconnect the black rod with red piece attached.
Page 15 10.) Take the lower section of the tower and disconnect the white 3x3 plate as well as one of the wall pieces. Reconnect the lower section by threading it up the rod and securing to the bottom of the tower while ensuring the cable is threaded down the middle.
Page 16 11.) Take a 6-port Expansion Board and connect a 30cm Connecting Cable to a spare port. Connect the end of the Bit Light Cable from the tower to the expansion board and then tuck both components inside the wall section of the tower while ensuring the 30cm connecting cable is laid down the middle of the wall piece.
Page 17 Reconnect the other wall piece as well as the 3x3 plate. 12.) Repeat steps 3 through to 11 to install another 3x White 30cm Bit Lights to the remaining 3 towers using 3x Adhesive Squares, 3x 30cm Connecting Cables and 3x 6-Port Expansion Boards.
Page 18 13.) Reconnect all four towers to the base of the Taj Mahal ensuringthat the cables from each tower is facing towards the centre of the base. 14.) Take 2x 6-Port Expansion Boards and connect them together using 1x 15cm Connecting Cable.
Page 19 Connect the other end of the cables from the front two towers into one of the expansion boards and then connect the other end of the cable from the back two towers into the other expansion board. 15.) Take the USB Power Cable and thread the connector side through one of windows on the back side (near the steps).
Page 20 Connect the USB Power Cable into your USB power Bank or wall connector. Verify the lights for the four towers are working OK.
Page 21 16.) We will now thread the cables from the towers underneath thewhite plates to prevent them from being too visible. First disconnect the cable from each tower from the expansion board and then disconnect the 6x10 plate closest to each tower. Thread the cable down through the space and pull the cable out from the inside to then reconnect it to the expansion board.
Page 22 Place your nger down on the cable close to the tower to ensure there is enough excess cable then carefully reconnect the 6x10 plate over the top. Repeat this step for all four corner cables.
Page 23 17.) We will now install strip lights to light up the ground oor of theTaj Mahal. Take 8x White Strip Lights and 7x 15cm Connecting Cables.
Page 24 Connect them all together using the connecting cables. Take a 30cm Connecting Cable and connect it to one of the end strip lights.
Page 25 18.) Stick each strip light to provided LEGO 1x6 Plates using the adhesive backing.
Page 26 19.) Starting from the front right corner, remove the following twowhite plates and then turn them over to mount the rst strip light (with the 30cm connecting cable) in the following position. Ensure the end with the 30cm connecting cable is facing the right.
Page 28 Thread the other end of the 30cm connecting cable down the space and then pull it out from the inside. Thread all the strip lights through the space and pull them all out from the inside toward the left before reconnecting the two white plates.
Page 29 20.) Pull the other end of the 30cm connecting cable from the rst striplight out and then connect it to the spare port on the 6- port expansion board closest to it.
Page 30 1.) Moving along to the front left corner, disconnect the following two white plates. Pull the strip lights all the way out from underneath and then stick the second strip light to the base of the two white plates we removed in the following position:...
Page 31 Thread the remaining strip lights back down the space toward the left to allow us to easily pull them out later.
Page 32 Reconnect the two plates. 22.) Disconnect the two plates on the left side of the base (above thetower) and then pull the strip lights out from underneath.
Page 33 Mount the third strip light to the bottom of the two plates we disconnected in the following position:...
Page 34 23.) Disconnect the following plate to allow us to thread the rest of thestrip lights under and then out the space which has been created.
Page 35 Reconnect the two plates we disconnected earlier...
Page 36 24.) Mount the fourth strip light underneath the plate we removed instep 23 then thread the remaining strip lights down the space below before reconnecting the plate.
Page 37 25.) Disconnect the following two plates from the top left of the base asper below: Pull the strip lights out from the left side and then mount the fth strip light underneath the two plates in the following position:...
Page 38 You can disconnect extra plates to make it easier to pull the strip lights through Thread the remaining strip lights down through the space toward the right before reconnecting the two plates. 26.) Disconnect the next two plates toward the top right corner of thebase. Pull the strip lights out towards the right from underneath before mounting the sixth strip light to the following position underneath the two plates.
Page 39 Thread the remaining strip lights down through the space toward the right before reconnecting the two plates. 27.) Disconnect the following two plates underneath the top rightcorner of the base as per below:...
Page 40 Pull the strip lights out from the left side and then mount the seventh strip light underneath the two plates in the following position: Thread the remaining strip light down through the space before reconnecting the two plates. 28.) Disconnect the following two plates toward the bottom rightcorner of the base as per below:...
Page 41 Pull the remaining strip light out and then mount it underneath the two plates in the following position: Reconnect the two plates.
Page 42 We have now completed installation of all the strip lights to light the entire base. Check that all the strip lights and tower lights are working ok by turning on your USB power bank. 29.) We will now light the middle section of the Taj Mahal starting withthe four towers on the top.
Page 43 Take a White 30cm Bit Light and place it in underneath the roof directly in the centre. Take a provided LEGO 1x2 Plate and connect it underneath the roof to secure the Bit Light in place as per below: 30.) Reconnect this section back to the tower ensuring the cable isfacing toward the back.
Page 44 along the base. Secure the cable in between studs under the following LEGO tile: 31.) Install another White 30cm Bit Light to the other front tower using the same method as we used to light the other tower.
Page 45 32.) Take the cables from both front towers and then thread themdown the middle space.
Page 46 33.) Install another 2x White 30cm Bit Lights to the remaining two towers in the back and then secure cables down by laying them in between studs under tiles.
Page 47 34.) Thread both cables from the back two towers down the middlespace.
Page 48 35.) Turn the entire middle section of the Taj Mahal onto it’s back. Pull the four cables down from above and then connect them into a 8-port Expansion Board...
Page 49 36.) Take 2x Multi-Colour Strip Lights and connect a 15cm Connecting Cable to each strip light (total 2x 15cm connecting cables)
Page 50 Connect the other end of each connecting cable to the 8-port expansion board.
Page 51 37.) Take a 30cm Connecting Cable and connect it to a spare port on the expansion board.
Page 52 38.) Mount the expansion board to the following position inside thetower using 2x Adhesive Squares. 39.) Mount the 2x Multi-Colour Strip Lights to the back wall using eachstrip light’s adhesive backing.
Page 53 40.) Take the entire middle section of the Taj Mahal over the groundoor and then locate the other end of the 30cm connecting cable from the 8-port expansion board and then connect it to one of the 6-port expansion boards on the ground oor below.
Page 54 Secure the middle section of the Taj Mahal in place and then test all the lights installed so far are working OK by turning on your USB power bank.
Page 55 41.) We will now light up the top tower of the Taj Mahal. Take thistower and then disconnect the following section from the base:...
Page 56 Take the remaining White Strip Light and then stick it to the remaining provided LEGO 1x6 Plate. 42.) Connect the remaining 30cm Connecting Cable to the strip light and then mount the strip light to the inside of the tower in the following position...
Page 57 43.) Reconnect the section we removed to the base of the towerensuring the cable is threaded through. Take the entire section over the Taj Mahal and then connect the other side of the 30cm connecting cable to the 8-port expansion board below.
Page 58 Securely reconnect the main tower. This nally completes installation of the Light My Bricks Taj Mahal Light Kit. Now turn on your light kit and ENJOY!
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