There seems to be a lot of various post in other threads about led light strips. Here is my experience from all that compiled knowledge.
here is my shopping list, I went full with amazon because of prime and because i'm impatient. some other stuff i got from radioshack
5050 cool white led strip
helping hands
a heat gun
heat shrink
12v dc power supply
4 to 1 dc splitter (listed as cctv splitter)
25' of 18 guage 2 conductor wire
female dc plug 2.1mm (these are really expensive at RS, i will buy these from ebay in the future)
update: these were $3.50 each at RS. I just purchased them on ebay for $1.50 for 10
and I had my own soldering equipment already.
1) cut light strip along the dotted line, use a blade to strip off the weather proofing if yours has it.
2) cut wire to length and strip, make two solder beads and solder
use black on - and red on +, don't think it matters but helps to be consistent. forgot to take a picture, but put heat shrink around this end too.
3) cut heat shrink to size, and put it, along with dc jack cover into the wire.
4) wire black to the long stem, and red to the short one, and solder
5) screw cover onto plug and line up the heat shrink
6) use your heat gun
7) mount, in my case, i drilled a hole in the back of my besta and wired it through
I will probably do an rgb led strip in the futureand go the ways of using arduino as a controller.
here is my shopping list, I went full with amazon because of prime and because i'm impatient. some other stuff i got from radioshack
5050 cool white led strip
helping hands
a heat gun
heat shrink
12v dc power supply
4 to 1 dc splitter (listed as cctv splitter)
25' of 18 guage 2 conductor wire
female dc plug 2.1mm (these are really expensive at RS, i will buy these from ebay in the future)
update: these were $3.50 each at RS. I just purchased them on ebay for $1.50 for 10
and I had my own soldering equipment already.
1) cut light strip along the dotted line, use a blade to strip off the weather proofing if yours has it.
2) cut wire to length and strip, make two solder beads and solder
use black on - and red on +, don't think it matters but helps to be consistent. forgot to take a picture, but put heat shrink around this end too.
3) cut heat shrink to size, and put it, along with dc jack cover into the wire.
4) wire black to the long stem, and red to the short one, and solder
5) screw cover onto plug and line up the heat shrink
6) use your heat gun
7) mount, in my case, i drilled a hole in the back of my besta and wired it through
I will probably do an rgb led strip in the futureand go the ways of using arduino as a controller.
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