Hi. I'm new here and rather bad at electronics. Now I'm about to start a guitar project and I want to have RGB LEDs inside of it, and I have a few questions. I will have 10 3W LEDs in the guitar to distribute the light properly, but they will most likely be turned down in brightness.
1) Does it make any difference which driver I choose except how the app looks? I don't want to buy cheap parts that don't work properly, but I also don't want to spend money where I don't have to.
2) Obviously I will need to power these with batteries. The standard in instruments is 9V, so that's what I first thought I was going to use, but I'm not sure that will work well enough. Does anyone know of a better power supply that doesn't take up much more room than a 9V battery?
3) These drivers are designed for LED strips. I'm actually not completely sure how I'm supposed to wire individual LEDs to them. My guess is the individual colors in series wired to the correct pin on the driver? In that case, I suppose the voltage from a 9V battery would actually be split over the three colors, giving them each 3V, right? Then they would actually work? But I guess a 9V battery wouldn't last long that way?
4) Do I need any resistors in this circuit?
These are the parts I'm considering:
I want to use these four pin LEDs:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/3X1W-3X3W-...hash=item3b059c55bd:m:mQD0I6wJtdJDMi1cnM5FOhw
And one of these two bluetooth drivers:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/5V-24V-IP6...hash=item3b164cb926:m:m8GFbY3Qz3z48p_Jqcx4RDw
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SMD-5050-3...hash=item3b07e320cd:m:mtcfSda9Q7_L8zxw0-Yrbzw
1) Does it make any difference which driver I choose except how the app looks? I don't want to buy cheap parts that don't work properly, but I also don't want to spend money where I don't have to.
2) Obviously I will need to power these with batteries. The standard in instruments is 9V, so that's what I first thought I was going to use, but I'm not sure that will work well enough. Does anyone know of a better power supply that doesn't take up much more room than a 9V battery?
3) These drivers are designed for LED strips. I'm actually not completely sure how I'm supposed to wire individual LEDs to them. My guess is the individual colors in series wired to the correct pin on the driver? In that case, I suppose the voltage from a 9V battery would actually be split over the three colors, giving them each 3V, right? Then they would actually work? But I guess a 9V battery wouldn't last long that way?
4) Do I need any resistors in this circuit?
These are the parts I'm considering:
I want to use these four pin LEDs:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/3X1W-3X3W-...hash=item3b059c55bd:m:mQD0I6wJtdJDMi1cnM5FOhw
And one of these two bluetooth drivers:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/5V-24V-IP6...hash=item3b164cb926:m:m8GFbY3Qz3z48p_Jqcx4RDw
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SMD-5050-3...hash=item3b07e320cd:m:mtcfSda9Q7_L8zxw0-Yrbzw