Great video buddy. It would have been nice for you to illustrate at the beginning of the video, the soldering of the power supply and the electrical power cord. Looking forward for the next update!
I learned this from another youtuber. Go to the thrift store and buy an old clothes iron. Put the iron on it's lowest setting, then lay you heat sink LED chips on it, they wont suck up all the heat from your solder iron.
Stephan Bitterwolf the whole project crashed and burned. It would have been better to wire all the different colors on their own driver instead of try to have one long stream powered by one driver... Too many failure points. The whole thing has been sitting in the corner for the last year or so... I'm as disappointed as you are. Sorry
I had a very similar experience last night....... Managed to fry all 12 of my LEDs can't imagine what you went through... I'm going to try it again next week. Did you fry all of your LEDs too?
Stephan Bitterwolf I might have... I know for sure one popped... I got discouraged pretty quickly, especially once I realized I was going to have to re-wire and re-solder 96 LEDs...
@@Seanmmvi you should use 5 channel driver for this project, so you could adjust each colour as you like also make a separate power line for each colour, this way if one led fail the rest still will be powered. Good luck next time mate.
So can I ask why you didn't continue with that? I'm asking because it looked really promising. I'm kinda researching whether it's worth it or not to try to put one together. What was that stopped you?
RipVan Winkle I wired something like 96 LEDs in a single series. that was foolish. there are a lot of failure points In a single string of hand soldered LEDs. I couldn't get all of them to turn on at the same time. If I were to do it again, I would put all the reds on one channel, all the greens on one channel, all the yellows on one channel and I would split all the whites into two channels. This would be much better to track down a failure. it does complicate the wiring tho. That's why I tried to do it all in one string...
Sean Williams man, that is fancy. Makes sense. I was arguing with people about true quality builds. They think the $40 flood light LED is comparable to high end matrix fixtures. Maybe initially with poor rendered light, but not even the same thing at all. King of DIY is spreading this idea. A Cree Lumia LED Matrix is $100 on average just for one matrix. The told this to Joey too. hahaha
ADU Aquascaping I got it all wired up and powered on, but half on the LEDs aren't working. I think it's because of the red LEDs are messing things up, they require a different voltage. so I need to re wire it. the wifey sauce made me clean up my office for Christmas, so all my tools are put away. I gotta dig them all back out and get back to work on it. having a little trouble with the 75 right now, my diffuser came loose and floated to the top for an entire day so there was zero co2 in the water for an entire 9 hour photo period. algae all over everything now. im on day 2 of a blackout right now
I expected more from this video. Ultimate DIY led ??? What is ultimate is first build, old tech and no final result ? I didn't see how this light work.
