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by Darthness » Tue May 02, 2006 12:39 pm

edit: i got all my kinks worked out. the First LED in the bar's anode broke... i can't solder it back up because i'll may mess up the LED with the gun (really little peice left)... if i don't mess up the LED im goign to melt the board. after that i want to find a way to beautify it.... if i can put it in a tube or something maybe i will, i donno.

My problem was a few solders came loose. but sweet.I've got plans to put 2 white-LED bars in our shed as lighting and then the dome light of my car and some more lighting in my trunk.

edit2: i fixed everything and got it working. phew. next time it won't be so much trouble shooting. i'll pay attention to polarities and solders..the board was actually looking real nice until i started tearing it apart. but it works. hopefully it'll go in the car tommorow.

by Darthness » Mon May 01, 2006 7:50 pm

its wired in a parallel... i've got one wire coming in for the positive and one for the ground, and then from there everything is wired up together... the anodes have resistors on them and are wired fine. everything looks pretty god but i could be wrong, heh. i just hope i can figure it out so i don't waste all 10 LEDs.... at worst i'll start over when my next set of LEDs gets here.

i'll put a pic up tommorow.

edit: i played iwth it and got most of the LEDs to light \up last night... not sure how i did it though. but im going to take a quick ap and work on it some.

by Chris from Washington » Mon May 01, 2006 1:47 pm

can you post your schematic on how you're hooking them up?

by Darthness » Mon May 01, 2006 11:47 am

damn damn damn. i think i've ran into a problem with my LED bar.... for some reason only 3 (out of 10) lights are lighting up.. it could just be the battery im using... but on the other hand the at first the first four were lighting up... now the first one doesn't light up and the 3 after that do... and the 6 after that don't do anything.

by Darthness » Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:05 pm

just orderd 35 more LEDs :D going to do some more lighting in the trunk, dome light, and also using some white lights to make a light for my shed :D yay

by Darthness » Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:16 pm

my led bar is looking pretty nice.. i lost an LED in testing, but i'm alright!

but i think an LED is much more entertaing to blow than a speaker..them suckers practically catch on fire!

by Chris from Washington » Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:06 am

GlassWolf wrote:a 30-watt pen is all you need.

I have that 100/150 watt gun as well, and rarely need it for work on lectronics or even in cars. It's more for household AC work with large cable. the 15/30 wat pen will give you selectable heat ranges for working on things like LEDs so you don't fry the components trying to solder the leads.
ah good point Glass, I forgot to mention about how LEDs don't like heat. I know a couple of you have been asking about LEDs. When you go to solder them, don't touch the leg of the LED for too long with your soldering device. Otherwise you'll fry the LED before even turning it on.

by GlassWolf » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:14 am

a 30-watt pen is all you need.

I have that 100/150 watt gun as well, and rarely need it for work on lectronics or even in cars. It's more for household AC work with large cable. the 15/30 wat pen will give you selectable heat ranges for working on things like LEDs so you don't fry the components trying to solder the leads.

by Ryan from Ohio » Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:34 am

Weller is decent.

My dad and I use one, its actually made for people doing stained glass. Its a 1000 degree 100 watt deal (I think its 100watt?). ANyhow it heats up vary fast between solders. As Im sure you know the heat drops when you go to solder. THis bad boy heats up like in 2 seconds after working...

Now the bad part is when the tip burns out you need to replace the whole heating element... WHich is like $4 less than a new iron...

Hacko makes some decent irons I hear. Check them out on E Pay :)

by joeyc » Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:05 am

actually it worked great for me on leds

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