what are you doing to me gordon that's a bit of a bit busy on the bench but we'll get there
okay so i'm a little nervous here we've got tons of stuff going on everything around us is
a bit hectic so i'm going to panic early slip the old glasses on and ask you the question
i don't want to know the answer what are we up to today gordon well gary we had some criticism
about the quality of the lighting on our set which which for me is a bit embarrassing
having a bit of a lighting background so i thought i'd best do something about it but
first i thought i'd best start with some nice shelving so we can put things on it so you've
got this shelving here and i know how you like to buy from that famous online retailer offers next
day delivery but i've got a feeling you didn't order them from there no i've just recycled some
bits of tray and unistruct we had a lying around the workshop to build a solid steel shelving
well you were talking about lighting at the start of the video and now you're talking about shelving
so how would you link the two together okay well good good shelf lighting will help nice in the
background but because that's all built from steel to actually when it comes to the installation
we're going to use a brand new connector system from Unibox called the Konnetk Hive and that's
going to really speed up install when we get to that stage right so because it's metal you've
got a system that's going to be easily installed on there so we went up to see nick wraith up at
manchester we had a fantastic time gordon talk us through some of the processes that we saw
there and you can also assume in another video that we've got yeah so unibox is a is literally
a hive of innovation there's always something great to look at there in that video we looked
at their edge light technology and some of the stuff for backlighting signage in a retail area
okay so he's taking it on to one step further so if i just move on to my hand cam so if i press
that there this stuff here that's stuck to this metal enclosure is obviously where you're going
to take me on this video and you've got a profile in front of me now the profile they're standard
profiles aren't they that we can get from unibox yeah so i've selected in this case i've selected
a one that angles the light back in towards the shelf i could have gone with a flat one we'll
mark we'll hold on to those thanks very much for them nick uh for another project um and we'll see
how easy it is to fix a little trick at the end when it comes to there's a magnetic strip on there
just pinch me trick there you go just got that one there but i know what you're thinking so
let's get the camera out and have a little look at this so we just finished the holiday season
and it looks like your all-inclusive wristband has still remained with you gordon can you talk
me through what that is okay well just remember when you're working with uh with um led strip
you need to um you need to watch your static electricity because that can actually damage the
damage the strip during the assembly process so just got there check out that video yeah and
again we went through that it's an unearthed video but it might be the time we released this one we
might have actually publicly released it it'll probably be in the description below it may be
in the link above our heads it's worth checking out that video in order that you can obviously
not damage your led strip when obviously you're working with it just through simple things like
static yeah so the other question i think we'll deal with before we get to just installing it as
a lot of people ask us is about specifying a power supply for lead tape okay which is just here yeah
which is just there and so i went through the work example here we're going to light four shelves
and each length of led strip is 650 millimeters long so it gives us 2 600 millimeters which is
2.6 meters the strip we're going to use from ozram is 7 watts per meter squared 2.6 times 7
18.2 watts total for the whole installation um so looking at the driver we're going to use 24 volts
so p equals v i rearrange it to get i so i was the power divided by the voltage so 18.2 watts
divided by 24 volts 0.76 amps oh well done yeah there we are in math's corner so all we've done
there is obviously work out the current work out of the power i'm gonna look on here and work out
which one we need and if i have a quick look at that that says 20 watts to me yeah so there you
go so more than the 18.2 watts worked out just as when you put the glasses on there you go that
was the same question for me um so what are you going to do next then are you going to do a bit
of soldering are you going to yeah so i've got a little bit of a little bit of soldering so the
lead we're using there is the osram short pitch we've seen before you're doing a little bit of
soldering so you're working away so we've seen you did a little bit of soldering before with the old
solder mate check out that video and we know that as it's uh an osram tape that it's always best to
tin those pads before obviously inserting the conductors so what you're trimming up here the
good people are currently seeing a video that can be seen onto the channel so okay you got that one
sorted so is it short pitch it's short pitch so we're going to try and get as close as possible
to the end of this to create a nice uniform light okay so this is our profile so i'll take that
front diffuser off okay so that's off sound and we've talked in the previous video as well about
the benefits of using a profile or attaching led strip to a surface because obviously it works as a
as a heat sink so this is going to work as a heatsink for our oz ram so here's a top tip
on this one gary okay the end caps from the extrusion all right make sure you thread the
wire through them first to feed in widely having already made three off i would suggest that was a
painful experience from uh from life an absolute top tip there okay so are you gonna peel it off
and stick it down then or you can check it out so i'm gonna put the solder the end on first
okay so in a previous video i didn't help you here because i was a little shaky with the hand cam
yeah now the good thing is these these leads from universe they're pre-tinned
on the end just keep it still let's have a little look pretty tender
so it just shows you how good that solder mate is that's held those perfectly in place
but here we go moment of truth swinging off the iron here's the space man's head
so just getting some solder sorted out yeah it's worth checking out there isn't an earth video of
me having a go at soldering which is not worth watching so we're using the old ts 100 soldering
iron and we've done a video on that gordon here we have okay switched it on that's going to sleep
because i've been uh talking too much cordon over today 350 degrees and 350 is required temperature
for for this uh yeah for the austrian strip yeah uh i'm just letting that warm up a little bit
so let's just warm it up okay so it doesn't take long so it's already there yep already
that's a good video that video on the ts 100 i'd recommend you check that out very
inexpensive solder on iron you're using it but it's very good for what we need it to do
so there we go on those fingers again you don't want the criticism gordon
oh you're in with your fingers again yeah that's that done on there so i'm going to switch the
iron there because a lot of leads okay so also also good so far you've got everything together
so you're now going to put it into the uh profile profile get the lead tape in there so peel off the
back sticks in and as we said before in a previous video presentation it works perfectly as a heat
sink uh check out that one because believe it or not leds do create a lot of temperature and we
proved that in a video as well didn't we let's have a little look let's get a little closer
so before you stick that down it's not going to go right to the end right to the end right
just start that off so pulling it back and you think you're going to have this almost
perfect the length of this short pitch more cutting points on the short pitch i
think they're every 50mm according to video we produced changes with manufacturer now
okay so we go you didn't check it which i think is brave beforehand so this might find that
it doesn't work and you'll be in the world of pain gordon well that went in that's actually
the perfect length perfect length remembered my end cap yes yeah from experience i would suggest
from experience i've done that i'm going to lose my static check it on the power supply
hopefully so just to just remind you there is a video where we cut led strip in the wrong place
okay so we cut that in the wrong place and we saw that it caused us a massive issue and some of
those leds then didn't work when we cut it in the wrong place so again choosing the right led strips
really important yeah so that works okay so you're looking got that illuminated off camera so you're
going back so you've done three more of these and these are going to be on our shelves i know
i should mention the magnetic strip i don't think our audience thought they were going to be held on
by magic okay so yeah so i've got that ready to go let me stick that up there okay so i've just got
to prepare the driver the driver so you're going to connect that into there yeah a couple of feral
ends i see there so we've already prepared that earlier gary no i already there we go a couple
of feral dents okay and they're going to go into the driver itself make sure you get them right
i'll try to get them right yeah yeah i wouldn't uh okay i'm in the wrong side so connecting those in
and this is going to power the track is that right am i using the right words yeah so it's going
to power track it'll take up to eight amps but obviously when we're using about one point sorry
zero point seven six i think you're fine so if you look back there yeah zero point seven six of an
main supply going in amp they feral ends as well you move it too quick feral ends yeah okay yep
feral ends yeah brilliant just handy for preparing leads to feral stuff beforehand because it just
stops and again if you haven't watched that video there's several videos you've produced on the
channel about the benefits of ferruling ends of cables especially when they're stranded and fine
stranded but uh check out those videos they're worth looking at so you've connected that up
yeah and this is this drive this optotronic driver from australia is nice they used to
call them the mouse back in the halogen days okay um and this end is also a cord grip as well okay
so squeeze that one down so this is going to power the track and we're going to connect some
sort of connection between the led strips with those leads that you put on that will connect
onto the actual track itself yeah so that's it so driver look at what you've got over already
there we go they're all prepared and ready to go so here's the clever bit so this is a bus bar
so that's what i'm calling the track you're calling it a puzzle yeah
yeah it's a bit think of a bit like a bus bar so it's a it's a slightly flexible pcb
again on the back here's the club it's got a magnetic strip okay that makes sense and
here's our and our connectors are just going to sit on now these connectors if you get gloves in
here i've got tiny little spring-loaded contacts okay so when we introduce that to the track
and that's it's going to magnetize to the steel of the shelving and connect itself
to the track it's very clever so that's clever that is clever and if you wanted to extend this
okay so you had a longer track you can get these extension pieces as well so they're just
look joining baby yeah so there's four of them yeah makes sense and again it will be
magnetized down but joining two tracks together again even though i've joined joined two tracks
together would that be still an eight amp rated yeah still eight amps it's the it's the conductor
on the track right so here's for the fast installation okay so let's see so let's put
it on to shelving cam so you're going to come over to here yeah and what you're going to do
for me well i'm going to use the factory we've got an upright that's made of steel
so just remind me that's the track going on there that's the track going in there
i'm going to power up that track that's the track stuck to the outside okay and now you're going to
power it up yep so so i connect that onto that look at that in a minute and then you're going
to simply plug this in and that will be the track livened up that'll be the track look at that so we
come around here and we've got that connected like so yeah it makes sense wouldn't matter where you
put it on the track is that true so you don't put it at the bottom end you can put it in the middle
as we progress the installation here we'll we'll probably move it multiple times um yeah so there's
the units i've assembled okay with the magnetic strip on the on the back so just put that under
there on our shelf the other bit it's got these little magnetic cable clips as well
so we can just uh we can hide them in there little clips and put it around the right way
and because it's oh there you go job done so that's one shelf done okay well
i see why i didn't get this job it's really easy so you can just bring bring them over
to me i noticed we've got a couple of the muppets on the screen is there any any stories beyond
that gordon uh someone yeah someone did say the other week that yeah we look like the uh we've
yeah we're a bit like the muppets so is that the right way around what i've done so nothing just
around the wrong way gordon yeah what have i done there i've brought the wire in at the wrong end
we'll deal with that off camera okay so that's going to be angled the other way is it that's
going to be angled the other way lesson learned there yeah so put that one on okay
but we've obviously got that on there that one's angled back so we see the difference
so that's angled back into whatever products we would have been putting on the shelf and
glare this one's angled forward so we've got this one some magnets grip onto anything yep
so that's that one's going to be in this i mean incredibly simple system and a lovely bit of light
so is this the last one last one so it gives us four of these uh connect hive system yeah yeah
that one's on pop it onto the actual track itself let me have a look at the side piece
ah you just moved the supply up there yeah i like that so that one's on as well let's
have a quick look around here these connections so that's just simply magnetic on the sides it
finds a position on the track and you can see the camera off and position it we've got it on
wow there we go job done so which sector do you think this would most benefit from this form of
lighting i mean unibox's background is retail and that's what they've designed it for retail
shelving you know retailers move the shelves a lot uh change displays quick setup but what you don't
want to do is be you know with that bus bar track at the back you've just got total flexibility to
add as many or few items as you need you can do a first fix install and then it's yeah it's it's a
non-technical install just about to say that yeah the person that's changing the lighting after the
electricians set the system up doesn't necessarily need a huge amount of technical competency to
actually configure the lights accordingly yeah which makes it very very versatile so anything
else you want to draw into the conversation from stuff we've done in previous videos
and what we've done here no so i mean that's it hopefully we'll show you how to quickly
check the power you need for a driver this will be sitting in the background of a lot of our videos
now so you can check if my soldering actually lasts and goes the distance uh yeah watch out for
those shelves uh in the background and we've got some more lights to add to the set as we go along
we're going to have some color change in some videos coming up as well loving that so we've got
a huge amount of videos that we're almost covered in this one we've done stuff on ferals we've done
the soldering iron review review on the ts 100 do you agree ts1 we've looked at static we've
looked at cutting led strip we've looked at short pitch we've looked at the two different voltages
that are commonly used being 12 and 24 and when you'd use those all those videos will
be in playlist hopefully you'll put them in the description or the end cards at the end of this
presentation i recommend you check those out and we're always interested in your feedback
so make sure you leave your comments below and gordon will try and get back to as many as he can