Build your own LED battens / strip lights | Battery or mains powered
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- čas přidán 31. 01. 2021
- How I made 5 battery powered LED batten lights to be used in my garage conversion. These could easily be mains powered though and used anywhere.
Parts used:
LEDs used : www.ultraleds.co.uk/ready-to-...
Cheaper LEDs (worth spending the extra tbh) : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WHITE-Ultr...
Metal strips with diffuser : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5m-Alumini...
Wire : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUTOMOTIVE...
Heat shrink : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127pcs-Ele...
Twist on wire connectors : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/50-x-6-5mm...
Cable ties : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cable-Ties...
Background music used:
Track 1
Artist : Airglow
Album : Memory Bank
Song : Innermission
Link : freemusicarchive.org/music/Ai...
Track 2
Artist : Airglow
Album : Memory Bank
Song : Blueshift
Link : freemusicarchive.org/music/Ai... - Jak na to + styl
O so simply explained no waffle thanks
Super helpful video, thanks very much. Some of those links have since expired btw. Any suggestions on what I would need to add to the setup if I wanted the lights to be dimmer? I'm not looking to light up a garage space rather something within a display cabinet.
Could you do these with RGB strips and connect to mains?
Could you explain how I could light light ropes with batteries?
3:02 but my teeth are the best wire stripper I have 🤣
What battery pack were you using?
Great video, looking for a idea to light up my garage. Do you have a link to your battery pack ? Thanks
Thanks! The battery pack I have here is the "BEAUDENS Portable Power Station 240Wh".
They are all similar though just search "power station" on ebay, amazon or ali express.
If you want something cheaper look for a "battery car jump starter" with a 12v output.
The LED's I have here where nicer branded ones that cost £30 per 5 meters and I would definitely recommend these over a £10 roll from ebay.
They are much brighter and only use 6w per meter even though they're speced for 10w per meter.
i had an led light bar. i connected it to the car battery and blew the leds. it was battery powered by 3.7v
do u think the cars 12v was to much. if so. some led bars like the same as mine run on 12v. idk why it blew
Yer the 12v car battery would have been too much for your 3.7v LED strip. The voltage of your power source and device needs to match (roughly, 10%+- won't really matter for stuff like this) as it has no choice but to receive it all. This means the 12v power would be going through 3.7v rated LEDs, resistors and wire causing everything to heat up until one or more parts break or melt. If you happen to have some that are still working from the 12v battery though I bet they are getting hot and with continued use will break also.
You could look at getting an adjustable voltage regulator (with a screen to see what your output voltage is changed to) on ebay for £5-10 which would allow you to convert the 12v to 3.7v (and other voltages if needed later).
Amps (current) on the other had is like energy potential. If your power source can offer more amps than the device needs it will only take what it needs so having extra won't hurt.
I would advise watching some youtube videos that explain voltage and amperage while also being very carful with DC car batteries, for your own safety I'd advise not not playing around with anything more than 24v.
@@craftycamel3498 yh then i realised leds run on 3.7v max and if they run on 12v supply then they all have resistors which mine didnt because it was for battery powered and i tried to convert into wire powered. either way ive learnt something lol
@@nnasssloolllas8024 Not all LEDs run on 3.7v. You can buy 5v, 12v, 24v, etc. It would be possible to run a 3.7v LED with a 12v power source but you would need a large resistor to drop the voltage before the LED, but this is not ideal as it will just waste that electric as heat and break over time. The adjustable voltage regulator is what you want to use.
Electric and wires are often explained as water running through a garden hose. You would not want to water your plants with a jet nozzle so you could squeeze the house so less water gets through, this is what a resistor does. But it's better to just get a nicer shower head which will take the full pressure water and convert it into something usable, this is what a voltage regulator does. They are also called boost converters to raise voltage only or a buck convert to reduce voltage only.
Playing around with low voltage electronics like this is quite safe and you're bound to fry many components, just be carful with using capacitors (electrolytic ones only) the wrong way around as they will blow up.