[TheForge] LED's for shop and home

[terry l. ridder]

hello

I have been making LED lights for a couple years now.
I found 5 meter reels of LED strips on fire sale over the years.
some of 30 LED per meter others are 60 LED per meter.
60 LED are the ones I use the most.

There are several types of LED strips. Several are varying degrees of
weather resistant coverings. Several are only the flexible PCB that the
LED are mounted to. These may or may not have adhesive tape on the back
of the PCB.

I like the weather resistant types.
Take 2 - 1 meter lengths and solder the necessary wires to each end.
I have found old light fixtures which have a reflective interior. I
mount the 2 - 1 meter lengths of LEDS in the reflective interior.

I use either an Arduino, Raspberry PI or an AllPixel to control the LED
strips. There are ready made controllers online. Radio Shack use to
carry these items. Not sure how many Radio Shack stores are still open.
I would suggest looking online for the items.

the LED strips are either 5 Volts DC or 12 Volts DC.
I use a wall transformer, a.k.a wall wart, for the power supply.

The advantage is I can shape the light to the desired shape.
I can also vary the color of the light and the brightness of the light.

I got started with these LED strips when I read an article about using
them for Christmas tree lights. I program the LED strips to change
colors in sync with Christmas carols.


On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, C&J Allcorn wrote:

> Like the rest of you I am slowly replacing Metal Halide, HPS, florescent and 
> incandescent bulbs with LED's.
>
<major snip>
>
> James
> Paris TX
>

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terry l. ridder ><>