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I think im getting addicted
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:52 pm
by Darthness
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!
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:58 pm
by ridr4lif
I dont know what addiction is worse?
Underglow on the toilet might be overkill dude. But it would definitely be different!
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:14 pm
by Darthness
someone on the oznium.com forums inspired both ideas... im definitely doing LED chirstmas lights next year.
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:18 pm
by joeyc
dude thats funny, your toilet?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:22 pm
by Ryan from Ohio
You better watch it...
Your treading in Chris's domain
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:17 pm
by GlassWolf
[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.
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:36 pm
by Darthness
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
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:50 am
by haynes
LED's are cool. Fiddle with them all the time :)
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 7:24 pm
by geolemon
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.
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 7:39 pm
by Darthness
i was joking about the couch underglow :) although it has been done.