DIY LED lighting

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14th January 2009

The wiring is pretty simple. The live wire from the adaptor goes to the positive input and the neutral wire goes to the negative input of the current controller. The positive exit of the current controller goes to the positive side of the first LED, from the negative side of the first LED into the positive side of the second LED, from the negative side of the second LED to the positive side of the final LED, then from the negative side of the final LED back to the current controller's negative exit.

Each setup like this will complete a series and there will be 5 series from left to right. Each series' wires go to a wire connector on the right hand side of the board.


15th January 2009

On to the testing of the unit.









These pictures of the test are taken with the lights on so you can see the effect of the lights. The room surrounding the lights gets darker as they get brighter due to the camer adjusting.


The 2 blue strips in the centre are cold cathode tubes which I previously had. These can be used for moonlight viewing. They are also wired to a 12V adaptor but one rated at 300ma.


The board was then laid into the luminaire and screwed down. The next step will be to connect all the wires to their power adaptors and see how it looks over the tank












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