Led to mains

[kr0nick]

Hi all.
I purchased A LED strip from ebay for A car and I am wondering on how to connect it to power? Either mains or battery power. There are two small silver wires from the end of the strip? I will post pics if it will help but if anyone has experience with this any help would be much appreciated.

There are no blue or red so positive or negative :S and I am confused

 

[Scleropages]

12 volt transformer.

Is it 12 volt LED?

 

[DazTopEndPythons]

If it was for a car it won't be 240v so you will need to find out what voltage and get a transformer to suit

 

[Ricochet]

How many 12 V chargers do you have lying around (ec cordless drills, etc. etc). Anywhere from 12-24 Volts should be fine. I have my LEDs running off these.

 

[kr0nick]

Thanks all I will try that

 

[Batanga]

I also use 12v powerpacks.
They must be run on AC!!!

 

[bimbo]

I would try and get a variable voltage 'power pack' I think you can even get them in woolies/coles. It will convert 240volt down to about 5 or so voltages between 1.5 and 12 and will give you an easy way to vary the brightness of the LED's. This will work with most of the cheaper standard/low output type LEDs - just don't try it with high output LED's like cree's or they go POP.

Cheers
James

 

[kr0nick]

Algood A 12V adapter worked fine but I might try that "power pack" as the LED's are bright as

 

[JAS101]

Hi all.
I purchased A LED strip from ebay for A car and I am wondering on how to connect it to power? Either mains or battery power. There are two small silver wires from the end of the strip? I will post pics if it will help but if anyone has experience with this any help would be much appreciated.

There are no blue or red so positive or negative :S and I am confused

ebay sells the LED strips with the 240v adapter [ u can buy them as a kit - plug in thand thats it] , u just have to look in the right place . im pretty sure i have some power adapters left over [ i doubled up on the strips per adapter ] and i brought the strips with the adapter as kits .

 

[Blake182]

if you were going to use batterys your going to be using lots
so get one of these
AC 110-240V to DC 12V 2000mA 2A Power Supply Adapter AU plug For Led Strip Light | eBay

 

[kr0nick]

Thanks all and blake I will order one of them sounds like the easiest and safest way to go. And jas I will keep looking for A package

 

[Blake182]

Thanks all and blake I will order one of them sounds like the easiest and safest way to go. And jas I will keep looking for A package

no probz
and there what i use for all my fish tank lighting

 

[melluvssnakes]

I realise this thread isn't super current (and sorry for hijacking) but I'm finding a lot of 5m rolls of led strips on ebay. Some come with a transformer and some don't. My question is, can you cut that 5m roll into say 1m long sections and turn it into 5 x 1m strips? How do you then wire up all the strips to attach them to a transformer?

 

[dangles]

I realise this thread isn't super current (and sorry for hijacking) but I'm finding a lot of 5m rolls of led strips on ebay. Some come with a transformer and some don't. My question is, can you cut that 5m roll into say 1m long sections and turn it into 5 x 1m strips? How do you then wire up all the strips to attach them to a transformer?

Yes you can. Just solder wires onto the strips then wire to 12v plug packs. I used 12v dc downlight transformers to wire mine up

 

[NTNed]

Jaycar or the likes have some cheap transfomers that you can hook several LED strips up to. Hobby shops is another option, they have them for for slot cars/trains etc, there's very little current draw with LED's so shouldn't be an issue with wattage output rating. Just join your two wires up and away you go.

 

[ericrs]

i used a old mobile phone charger. everyone has one of those kicking around. cut the plug off and wire away. loves it.

 

[jack]

I also use 12v powerpacks.
They must be run on AC!!!

DC actually, they are a diode and work as a one way valve for electrical current