My First DIY LED

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And these frames are going to replace the shitty looking things I have holding up the fans now. I'm going to paint these white.

Update:

Time to put the rest of this thing together! So I finished drilling holes in the last cover and attached the fan. Mounted the 3 heatsinks to the aluminum angle and put on the cobs. I had just enough thermal compound left over from when I built my current computer. Now I'm going to spend a good chunk of the evening playing with wires.

I've got the first connection done! This is going to take a while but I've got the whole weekend. The wire length is a little longer than I'd like but this is something I don't have much experience with. The rest of the connections should get better as I go.

This is as far as I'm getting tonight. I ran out of heat shrink of a certain size. Gonna make a run to the hardware store tomorrow. So I got up to the 2nd row of COBs. I cut the rest of the wires to there desired length. I had bought the 12" picco ezmate and that was way longer than I needed. I just wanted to be safe instead of sorry. I also got the wrong wire size on the ezmates. The leads are like 28awg, way to small. So I had to splice onto a bigger wire.

I believe there's 3 wire size for eezmate.
Do you mean that's better to buy the bigger size?
Have a great day ★

littlejacob said:

I believe there's 3 wire size for eezmate.
Do you mean that's better to buy the bigger size?
Have a great day ★

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It depends on how you plan to connect the wire ends. If I wanted a permanent connection I probably wouldn't have needed the bigger wire.

??? WHY ???

Red crimp connectors are designed for 22 to 18 AWG wire. (28 gauge is too thin)

Finished wiring up the COBs and the driver! I aslo put on the new bracket/frame thing for the cab fans.

nice and tidy!

Beautiful work...you know how to handle tools
CU

So, I got everything ready for the first boot up. Tried the fans first and they are all working. Went to plug in the lights and...nothing.
Now I've gotta go looking for a loose connection. I had to repair 2 wires that broke when I was flipping it over. This thing is a bit heavy. Hopefully
I can't get the lights on by the end of the night.

I couldn't get the lights to work... I'm going to blame the 28awg ezmate wire. Shit's just to thin.

I'm going to do a bit more testing before I go and order the different picco ezmate size. I'm so butt hurt that the lights didn't turn on when I plugged them the first time.

28awg is for small projects.you would want something with a few cores rather than a single strand

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge#Tables_of_AWG_wire_sizes

SSJGemini said:

I'm going to do a bit more testing before I go and order the different picco ezmate size. I'm so butt hurt that the lights didn't turn on when I plugged them the first time.

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time to pull out a soldering iron and scrap the pico ezmates.

Pretty bad ass build bro, I cant imagine what the future holds for you being that this is your first one....space ships maybe haha. I wish I had access to the tools you do!!! Im still building my first fixture, just about done, working the cooling and dimming out...then I have 3 more half way built lol....Is it me of does building these get addictive and costly lol

Bonjour
To be sure...if I remember well there's 3 pico eeze size...did you purchase the smaller? Which one are you going to buy? Medium or big one?
What they make the small one for? Vero10 @250mA???
Have a great day ★

@PurpleBuz I'm not quite there yet.

@silvrsurfer77 Thanks man. Yea, I think space ships sound about right for my future. lol. My only problem is I can't get this mini ship powered up.

@littlejacob Yea I bought the smallest size. I'm most likely going to by the ones with the large wire ends.

I have a V29 running on the smallest/shortest EzMate.....I would say the problem lies elsewhere...The 28 Gauge is still safe up to 300 volts or so, highly doubt that is the issue....

Have you troubleshot all your connections?, any loose, wiggly or not touching but not visible?
alsocan't remember if you have a multimeter or not @SSJGemini....can you check the driver output?

Fuse connection is worth checking too....pushed in all the way or attached?