Hey guys this is Martin again from SIRS-E.
And today I am going to teach or show you.
How to make an LED panel out of LED strip lights.
These panels can be made.
With pretty much any sort of strip any color.
And any type of configuration size.
The only thing you got to keep track of.
Is how everything is going to be lay out.
And I am going to go over a simple one that I made here.
And I am going to show you what I did.
And different techniques that you can use.
To under carry such thing.
For example here, I am actually using.
Two sorts of LEDs.
Alright, I am using a warm white.
Along with a cold white.
And the way I lay them out.
Was, one warm white one cold white.
Warm white, cold white so on and so forth.
And the reason for that is.
For the following.
By mixing the two I could achieve certain white color temperatures.
That can be useful in different applications.
Such as photography and other things like that.
So that way I have everything setup here.
I have the strips lay out.
Right next to each other in parallel.
I’ve use an angle aluminum.
I think they are like 1/2 inch and 1/2 inch angle aluminum pieces.
And then they have another piece of angled aluminum.
With some rebites.
So you just drill holes.
And then you slide the rebites thru.
And that is what holds these two plates in place.
You can use a plate that is already assembled.
Or depending on the size and all that.
You could always use screw and nuts.
To hold that in place.
But I mean there are a lot of different ways.
The reason why I like to use aluminum.
Is because it dissipates the heat pretty well.
On this side I have a regular clamp here.
Made a hole and it’s just being held on there.
So you can paint it up on whatever.
Over here, I have an RGB dimmer.
In this case we are not using RGB. But the freedom that it give me.
Is that I can control the warm white.
The intensity of the warm white.
And also the intensity of the cold white.
And this way I can mix them.
Depending on what I am looking for.
So, the way I did it.
After I lay them all out.
I just solder a little bridges from one to the next.
But keep in mind if you are doing two colors.
Like a warm white and a cold white.
You got to make two separate circuits.
So you will only interconnect.
The cold whites with the cold whites.
And the warm whites with the warm whites.
And then you take your main leads out over here to the dimmer.
And then you hook up one of the channels to the blue.
Which will symbolize cold white.
And the other one to the red.
Which is symbolizing your warm white.
So that is pretty much what I did.
And this dimmer.
It is just being held on to this aluminum here.
With double side tape.
And this power supply.
Is being held on with double side tape with the dimmer here.
It is all heavy duty adhesive.
Double sided tape used a lot for like car trim parts and stuff like that.
So it really hold on really well.
But like I said there is not much to it.
You can create pretty much any size.
Any sort of configuration and lay out any color of LEDs.
So possibilities are endless.
Is really up to you think about what it is that you need.
But you can make them this size.
You can make them twice as big.
And if you do some research on some trial and error.
You come up with a bunch of different designs.
But this is some of the cool stuff you can do with LED strips.
This is one of the few applications.
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