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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: robC on February 01, 2008, 10:54:39 am
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Hi there,
I am just wondering how you folks have been wiring these LEDs? I took all my LEDs and hooked each single channel into a screw terminal block. Then on the other side of the block, I used 20 guage to go to the LEDWiz. The problem I have though, is that the very thin gauge of wire in the ribbon cable from the LED is sometimes loosening up in the terminal block. Its just not enough wire to tightly hold in there.
Can anyone post up some example pics of how they cleanly wired their CP with these LEDs? Mine is starting to look like a rats nest with 4 leads coming out of each LED.
Thanks for the info and examples.
Rob
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Each LED has a short leg and a long leg.
I soldered one end of the resistor to the short leg of the LED light then soldered 20 AWG stranded black wire to the other end of the resistor. I then used heat shrink tubing to completely cover the short leg from the LED light as well as the full resistor wire completely
For the long leg of the LED light I simply soldered 20 AWG stranded red wire and then used heat shrink tubing to completely cover the long leg from the LED light.
The following picture shows you how I connected my LEDs to the LEDWiz. Please note, I combine multiple LEDs together to be used on one port of the LED Wiz. Also, the picture below obviously does not show the heat shrink tubing used but you can see there are little circles near the LED lights themselves. These circles are my solder points and everything to the left of the circles (up to the LED light itself) are protected with heat shrink tubing.
Oh yeah .... the green trapezoid things represents the serial cable connectors I am using as my quick disconnects. I was told I should split the 5V load over several pins of the serial connector and then rejoin them after. This allows the pins of serial connector to be abel to handle the 5V load.
Hope this helps.