chrisab508
New Member
Hey Guys,
I understand that LED projects are popular, and that you get a lot of questions regarding them so I apologize if what I'm asking has been covered.
I am making an LED sign (essentially a neon sign but made with LEDs). My plan is to make the outline of a christmas tree with green LEDs, and some "christmas lights" inside the tree with red LEDs. I have a fairly large perf board because I wanted to make it pretty large. My question to you guys is how do you think I should power it? Given the size I'm looking for, I could be using quite a few LEDs, so I'm guessing a simple battery (e.g. 9v) will not be sufficient. I could do the calculations, however, I feel that someone here has probably tackled this situation previously.
I also have a similar question. I will probably be operating somewhere in the range of 100 LEDs (perhaps more), so I would imagine that I do not want to wire them all in series, or all in parallel (which would be a mess), would you guys recommend splitting them into lines of 10? 20? n?
EDIT: I can get a DC power adapter pretty easily. A 12v, 500mA is easiest for me to get (won't have to order it online), however, a quick ebay search shows me that I can get a 12v 2A power adapter as well. Thoughts?
Thank you in advance, any help is appreciated.
- Chris
I understand that LED projects are popular, and that you get a lot of questions regarding them so I apologize if what I'm asking has been covered.
I am making an LED sign (essentially a neon sign but made with LEDs). My plan is to make the outline of a christmas tree with green LEDs, and some "christmas lights" inside the tree with red LEDs. I have a fairly large perf board because I wanted to make it pretty large. My question to you guys is how do you think I should power it? Given the size I'm looking for, I could be using quite a few LEDs, so I'm guessing a simple battery (e.g. 9v) will not be sufficient. I could do the calculations, however, I feel that someone here has probably tackled this situation previously.
I also have a similar question. I will probably be operating somewhere in the range of 100 LEDs (perhaps more), so I would imagine that I do not want to wire them all in series, or all in parallel (which would be a mess), would you guys recommend splitting them into lines of 10? 20? n?
EDIT: I can get a DC power adapter pretty easily. A 12v, 500mA is easiest for me to get (won't have to order it online), however, a quick ebay search shows me that I can get a 12v 2A power adapter as well. Thoughts?
Thank you in advance, any help is appreciated.
- Chris
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