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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 11:47 am
by Darthness
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.
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:47 pm
by Chris from Washington
can you post your schematic on how you're hooking them up?
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 7:50 pm
by Darthness
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.
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 12:39 pm
by Darthness
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.