Hi Folks,
Im a complete Newbie to electronics, although I do repair a lot of electrical items and am really good with a soldering iron, I dont really know too much about resistors and so on.
I really hope someone could help me please? I am trying to connect several leds, I have made led strips, which I need to all light up at the flip of a switch. There are 10 strips in total, 8 strips have 12 leds the other 2 only have 8 leds, the leds are Blue and require a voltage of 3.4-3.6V the strips are for decorative purposes and there isnt much room on the strips for even the wiring so I didnt use any resistors, all the leds are connected in parallal. I was just wondering is there any way to power all these led strips from a single power supply, or to modify a PC power supply to power all the strips (I have several working spare PC supplies sitting around...)
Would there be any better way to get these to all work please without placing a resistor on each single led? at the moment, I dont want to use 10 adjustable power supplies, set to 3v, one for each strip as this would take up too much space and be difficult to maintain.
I really hope someone can help, as I said I am really new and dont know much apart from how to solder.
Thank You
Im a complete Newbie to electronics, although I do repair a lot of electrical items and am really good with a soldering iron, I dont really know too much about resistors and so on.
I really hope someone could help me please? I am trying to connect several leds, I have made led strips, which I need to all light up at the flip of a switch. There are 10 strips in total, 8 strips have 12 leds the other 2 only have 8 leds, the leds are Blue and require a voltage of 3.4-3.6V the strips are for decorative purposes and there isnt much room on the strips for even the wiring so I didnt use any resistors, all the leds are connected in parallal. I was just wondering is there any way to power all these led strips from a single power supply, or to modify a PC power supply to power all the strips (I have several working spare PC supplies sitting around...)
Would there be any better way to get these to all work please without placing a resistor on each single led? at the moment, I dont want to use 10 adjustable power supplies, set to 3v, one for each strip as this would take up too much space and be difficult to maintain.
I really hope someone can help, as I said I am really new and dont know much apart from how to solder.
Thank You