I think im getting addicted

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:52 pm

to crack.. it all started when i was 13 and since then its been $20 here, $200 there...

no but seriously. i wired up my first LED today. running it on a 9v battery and im giong to see how long it takes to die. I'm considering ordering like 200 LEDs and building an underglow kit for my couch and toilet!

ridr4lif · Post by **ridr4lif** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:58 pm

I dont know what addiction is worse?

Underglow on the toilet might be overkill dude. But it would definitely be different!

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:14 pm

someone on the oznium.com forums inspired both ideas... im definitely doing LED chirstmas lights next year.

joeyc · Post by **joeyc** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:18 pm

dude thats funny, your toilet?

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:22 pm

You better watch it...

Your treading in Chris's domain

Post by **GlassWolf** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:17 pm

[quote="Ryan from Ohio"]You better watch it...
Your treading in Chris's domain ]

Chris's domain.... is Darthness's toilet?

Quite a throne he has there. I'd watch where you turd though.. er, tread.

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:36 pm

leds are fun..... i just blew one up it was cool. some black crap speed through and it changed from green to orange! i think its because i powered it directly off a battery rather than with the resistor... whoopsie! if i'd of kept it on there it would of caught on fire

haynes · Post by **haynes** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:50 am

LED's are cool. Fiddle with them all the time :)

geolemon · Post by **geolemon** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:24 pm

Just thought I'd stir up the conversation...
You simply can't do much better in the category of "amusing your wife" than building an LED undersofa kit, that's for sure.

So - how about the subject of powering the LED's?
AC works fine (they'll self-rectify

). BUT...
Wire them in series until the voltage divides to a proper "per-LED" level, or use a transformer and wire them all in parallel?

I definitely advocate using a transformer... but of course that can be expensive, and for a few pennies more you could build a whole formal rectifier/power supply...
...a sofa-glow kit probably wouldn't be worth the serious effort... OK, well, you know it would, but you might find yourself committed - and I don't mean "to the project", I mean "to an asylum". No chick will be impressed with you if she finds out you star-trek-geeked up a home-made power supply.

Ah - alternative solution - buy a cheap AC/DC converter and wire it to a simple set of bus-bars?

If you really wanted to build such a thing - I ordered several packs of LED's from Ebay... don't remember the seller's name, but they were tremendously cheap - packets of 50 or 100 or something - they actually shipped from Hong Kong, and shipping was remarkably cheap. Just arrived in an envelope, like they were mailed USPS. Pretty remarkable, arrived quick, cheap... check it out.

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:39 pm

i was joking about the couch underglow :) although it has been done.