Thread: hooking up led lights?

Originally Posted by ofishlbizzness

I got a roll of LED lights to play with making some nitestalk lights. Is there anything special I need to hook up to a battery or just solder on some alligator clips and hook straight to the battery?

the only thing special when hooking up LEDs is make sure positive to positive and negative to negative they are polarity sensitive !!! make it as easy and simple as you can for yourself !!!

John, I tend to fuse everything other than that + to + - to -
Make sure whatever you stick them to is really clean. I wiped my aluminum strip down with alcohol

I recently did just this with a dimmer switch up front.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2004.15.02.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2004.15.12.jpg
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2002.28.32.mp4
is the dimmer switch in action


http://www.ebay.com/itm/261347067761...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
light strips im using. (i cut them to fit and soldered wires in places)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271518393516...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
dimmer switch im using and its VERY weather resistance. especially if you put just a touch of silicone on the inside of the seam where the 4 screws are.


not sure how to get crappie.com to play nice with my dropbox

I made my underwater nightstalking lights with a roll of those green LEDs from ebay. Works by far better than any light I ever bought. I got a roll of red, too and put around my boat on the inside. Worked real well, but I didn't have them protected, and they got beat up and a lot of LEDs started going out. The ones in my underwater lights are holding up perfectly.