Cutting LED Filament

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I love this LED filament, but the one draw back is that it can't be cut. Luckily with a little bit of patience, you can cut and resolder the connections to make whatever length you need!
I am using a mix of Adafruit Noods (12V), and a generic LED filament(3V) from Aliexpress for this video.
Make sure you know how much power you are drawing with your final length and size your resistors accordingly!
My go to source for 3V filament (Aliexpress):
shorturl.at/lqmCa
Or from Adafruit
Find 3V, 12V, and 24V variations!
www.adafruit.com/category/536

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27 июн 2024

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Комментарии : 31

@Engineezy 24 дня назад

The hot glue/heat shrink is such a great tip! Definitely going to be using that in the future

@wesselscreations 24 дня назад

It has saved a few of my terrible solder joints! Going to check out the marine heatshrink that was also suggested for future projects

@excrubulent 2 дня назад

Well, this answers the search I just made, "can you cut flexible led filament".

@mikescholz6429 12 дней назад

Omg thank you for this. You just green lit at least three projects I was hesitant about due to not being able to trim. The single ended power and ground is even more incentive now.

@wesselscreations 12 дней назад

@@mikescholz6429 that's awesome! It is really great to have the option to modify them

@thomaskampouris9713 23 дня назад

Thanks for the amazing tip. This video inspired me to start a project including these LED filaments. I would definitely love to see a tutorial on how you made one of the LED dioramas you showed.

@wesselscreations 23 дня назад

Thats awesome! I will do just that!

@mooreevair 25 дней назад

I experimented with the same light and while I didn't come out as neat as you , I made / 3d printed a spindle light for my Bridgeport mill. Seeing what you did here inspires me to go redo it as it flickers every now and then due to a poor connection. Thanks and subscribed

@wesselscreations 24 дня назад

They can be really finicky, if I mess with it too much while installing it into something, I sometimes have to resolder a joint. Thanks!

@alfblack2 25 дней назад

wait. what! first time to see this LED filament. so cool

@libervolucion 16 дней назад

Nice video, keep it up

@jordanwaeles 25 дней назад

That "cutting a piece of hot glue" tip was genius! Your video was inspiring, concise and well shot, I subscribed, good luck with your channel!

@wesselscreations 24 дня назад

Thanks! I appreciate it!

@arvindh13 25 дней назад

Thank you.

@CrashMakerspace 24 дня назад

Nice work dude! This is a great topic and should get more Subs 💯

@wesselscreations 24 дня назад

Thanks! Appreciate the support!

@Ernzt8 8 дней назад

Great tip, thanks!

@khobragade 25 дней назад

Wonderful!

@jayytee8062 18 дней назад

There already is heat shrink tube with adhesive.

@NeneExists 24 дня назад

Using marine heat shrink should be nice for this, because it comes with the glue already coating the inside. When you shrink it the glue melts through and around anything you shrink it onto, without having to balance a tiny sliver of hot glue.

@wesselscreations 24 дня назад

I will have to get some and see how it works!

@HW_Printing 24 дня назад

@@wesselscreations I use it at work and it is fucking awesome!

@excrubulent 2 дня назад

Is that what it's called? I definitely had some of this at one point and loved it but never knew what to look for. I only had it in really large diameter and forget what it was even used for, just that I wished I had more of that gluey heartshrink. Thanks so much!

@emmettpickerel5016 24 дня назад

Thanks for doing this experiment! I'd contemplated these since they came out, but the lack of ability to mod them put me off. Also, did I understand correctly that they're wired in parallel, so if you needed them shorter you *could* just cut one? It'd be an interesting experiment to design a tiny connector, as exist (in varying qualities) for strip LED lighting.

@wesselscreations 24 дня назад

They are in parallel! But the positive and negative are wired to each end, so you can cut them and only solder the missing one if you don't mind having a wire on each end of your filament

@arvindh13 25 дней назад

Where did you buy it? if possible give me a website.

@wesselscreations 24 дня назад

This is where you can find 3v, 12v, and 24v variations www.adafruit.com/category/536

@HW_Printing 24 дня назад

Aliexpress has it cheaper

@wesselscreations 24 дня назад

@@HW_Printing True! but not a hugely amount like some electronics can be. I get most of mine from aliexpress if I don't have a time crunch on the project haha

@excrubulent 2 дня назад

@@HW_PrintingThe last time I mentioned that site in a comment, purely to answer a question just like you did, my comment got yeeted and I got a warning about spam that threatened my channel. I have no idea what yt wants here. Maybe my comment was reported or something.

@HW_Printing 2 дня назад

@@excrubulent RU-vid is a bitch sometimes