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I've grown tired of attaching and detaching my lights, so I'm building one for a permanent home. Fingers crossed. 11 panels (5/1/5). Based roughly on the B-series because of the straight lines, but slightly different dimensions to help with the weight of the rig, plus some other refinements. Planning on midnight blue, fluorescent green, and white/reflective trim. The lights will ring the kite and be held in with the sheer trim. Here are the lights in action, held with packing tape on a Djinn.

I am curious how often you guys would mess with adjusting the bridle on something like a Nexus. I have about 8-10 sessions and I am still learning and I've flown in some strong-ish winds (15mph) and light winds 8-10mph. I have had issues with the kite stalling in lighter winds or during gusty days where the wind is either blowing at 12mph then drops to 3mph. Is it worth opening Pandora's box with adjusting the bridle? Thanks!

I learned a lot on this forum about building kites so I thought I would document my second build on a new thread. Day 1 was to layout and cut the panels. I am using rip stop nylon as the primary fabric. As you may be able to see it will be a vented quad. Here is a picture of one of the panels with the vents cut out. Tomorrow the vents will get white screening. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

I find the spot I like in the bridle adjustment and almost never touch it again. Generally, I like to bias towards nose-forward. If the kite's not flying in lower winds, I usually take out a lighter kite. The Nexus likes 5-15mph, and like most Prism kites, it flies with a heavy-butt feel. Doesn't mean it won't fly, it just flies slow... If you fly the Nexus in lower winds, it will teach you how to fly a kite like the 4d in zero winds.

On now pulling out my Prism Quantum, I see that the centre T setup is slightly different than I had envisioned, in that there is no ferrule in one spreader, but, rather, both spreaders plug into a fitting. Not uncommon, but not what I was thinking when I made reference to a ferrule, which is more typical of kites using larger diameter skyshark type spars. I experienced the same as you on my Quantum it looks like, and I had adopted the rubber band method referred to above. In the spirit of a picture being worth 1000 words, I attach one of my setup. Sorry for any confusion! https://i.imgur.com/DT5GDVr.jpg .