Beginners DIY LED Build

[BBQHILLBILLY]

You are doing a great write up. This will open doors for people who cant or wont spend a couple of grand on LED fixtures.
Check all polarity and use a multimeter diode tester and you will be able to see if all LEDs are good.
Great job.

[Tempset]

Here's what I have so far.

Excuse the sloppiness of SOME of the wiring - took some time to get used to working with a soldering iron.

In this picture, you can clearly see that the wiring is correctly connected.



It's a little bit of a mess - but I promise that they all lit up with the battery tester yesterday!




All 18 white are connected together.

We have noticed that the 9 blues we have wired up ARE lighting up just fine under the battery tester.

[hobogato]

can you post a pic that shows all of the information on the top of the driver?

[Tempset]

I can & I will, but I figured out the problem with the help of a friend of mine (Felix). So I'm soldering right now & I'll post something up when I'm done.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

Wires much more organized than my wires. lol Yall probably saw the LEDs look like their in parallel.

[Tempset]

LED's finally coming together properly.

More to follow. The last few posts were just me having some problems. It's all sorted out now!

[hobogato]

awesome! glad you figured it out.

[rrasco]

Sorry I didn't chime in earlier, but you only need to connect one wire on each side the LED....as you already figured out.

DRIVER+ -LED+ -LED+ -LED+
DRIVER- +LED- +LED- +LED-

[Tempset]

Found the problem.

The last wire connecting the last 2 LED's were on the wrong posts.

All that remains now is:

1. adding additional wire so that I can mount the drivers AWAY from the fixture.

2. Adding "stand offs" & acrylic shield in order to protect the LEDs from getting salt creep & splashes.

[allan]

Nice job, dude. Very nice. Can't wait to see it over water.


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