Tunks terrible LED light build.

[Tunkers]

Some toys turned up today [emoji16][emoji16]

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Will be interesting to see what it does,

 

Are they 3 w chips ?

[Tunkers]

Will be interesting to see what it does,

 

Are they 3 w chips ?

Yeah I think I read they were 3w sorry just noticed you'd posted

[Tunkers]

Just waiting for wiring instructions / confirmation before I stick the strips on, but the frame is done. I left the panels loose on the bolts so they can slide along. Can even slide to one end for easier carriage [emoji6]

 

 

This should actually cover a 4' x 4' area..

 

So next expensive part of the build was the U channel I picked up down the local metal yard $47.50. They cut it all for me so all I had to do was drill holes in the ends and pick up the bolts, nuts, carabiner and straps to hang. $23.60 all up.

 

Total so far is $522.90 and very little labour. Hoping the wiring part won't give me too much grief. Won't be any soldering involved, and I'm pretty sure it's just matching + / - on the strips back to the driver output.

Edited January 31, 2018 by Tunkers

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good work tunkers. keen to see how they go. nice little diy to keep ya busy mate

[Tunkers]

Was almost in rock n roll mode..

 

 

See the dead diodes on the second strip? Bastards...

 

I've emailed digikey to let them know they sent me a dud, fingers crossed I'll have a new one sent asap. Other then that, these things worked brilliantly! Burned 4 vertical strips into my eyeballs. The photo doesn't show just how fucking bright these things are!

 

Wiring it all up was so much easier then I was expecting. Here's a quick run down on how I did it.

 

 

Used an old plug off some appliance that was broken for the input.

 

 

Attached the outputs to a thick gauge power cable and then split into 4 smaller gauge cable for the strips.

 

 

I know this looks dodgy with all the red wire but the thicker insulated wire is - and the thinner insulated one is +

 

The stripped wire literally slides and locks into the ends which are marked + / - so there's no confusion

 

 

 

Edited January 31, 2018 by Tunkers

[Tunkers]

Heres to show scale of the thing

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Looks better than pink.

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Forgot to add in how I attached the pcbs to my U channel. You can screw them on if you felt the need but I had this double sided glue tape stuff from a past project that worked great.

 

 

So with the price of the terminal connectors $7.19 in total I spent $530.09 on total build.

 

Edited January 31, 2018 by Tunkers

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can you add 5 w strips ?