Hello,
I am a complete noob, so this may cause some eyerolls...
I build weird illuminated sculptures out of scrap, and leds seem like an ideal lighting solution because they last a long time, don't heat up, and fit into tiny places which is essential.
I bought this, which is a string of 10 warm white leds running off three 1.5v batteries:
I cut the string up into three lengths of 6 leds and one length of 5 leds. I installed them where they needed to go, wired them all back together, and it works:
So the (naive) plan was then to simply remove the battery pack and splice in a wall-wart adapter to make it permanent, since I have a bag of random ones lying around.
I grabbed this, and selected 4.5v, and tried it out on the remaining leds that I didn't use:
They all lit up nicely..... and then fried within one minute.
So now I'm left with this thing with a bunch of leds painstakingly installed in tight places that I don't want to have to re-do, for example:
I really REALLY don't want to try the wrong thing and fry these and have to fish new ones back through those pipes to the exact proper places.
So, my question is this : Is there a simple solution to making it possible to just plug all this into an outlet?
Is there a ready-made product for sale somewhere and I just don't know what to look for? Or does this need some sort of custom-designed circuit?
It seems like it should be simple, but after looking around randomly online for a couple of hours, I just can't seem to find an answer that is comprehensible to a noob.
Thanks in advance!
I am a complete noob, so this may cause some eyerolls...
I build weird illuminated sculptures out of scrap, and leds seem like an ideal lighting solution because they last a long time, don't heat up, and fit into tiny places which is essential.
I bought this, which is a string of 10 warm white leds running off three 1.5v batteries:
I cut the string up into three lengths of 6 leds and one length of 5 leds. I installed them where they needed to go, wired them all back together, and it works:
So the (naive) plan was then to simply remove the battery pack and splice in a wall-wart adapter to make it permanent, since I have a bag of random ones lying around.
I grabbed this, and selected 4.5v, and tried it out on the remaining leds that I didn't use:
They all lit up nicely..... and then fried within one minute.
So now I'm left with this thing with a bunch of leds painstakingly installed in tight places that I don't want to have to re-do, for example:
I really REALLY don't want to try the wrong thing and fry these and have to fish new ones back through those pipes to the exact proper places.
So, my question is this : Is there a simple solution to making it possible to just plug all this into an outlet?
Is there a ready-made product for sale somewhere and I just don't know what to look for? Or does this need some sort of custom-designed circuit?
It seems like it should be simple, but after looking around randomly online for a couple of hours, I just can't seem to find an answer that is comprehensible to a noob.
Thanks in advance!