What is the purpose of this? o.o

'cause it's fuuun.

because I can, save money, and have a light source that will last more then 5 years

... How much is it costing you? >_>

nothing really since I live with parents, but helping them save cash doing this, will be good summertime when AC hits. A friend I know converted her house to LEDS and she curbed $150 per bill for power

Would be a lot fucking easier of the damn lightbulb makers would make a fucking LED bulb that was actually fucking bright, instead of that 100lumen crap.

There is an 1000 lumen bulb but it is huge

How many volts will it actually take to run it? And how did you test it?

12 volts, using a modified power supply from a PC to regulate the 12volts

When you had said 12 volts pc I thought you had made a typing error and had meant to type dc. Just saw one of your recent pics and realized you really did mean pc. I had never thought to use something like that to power leds like that. i take it the pc power box is plugged into the wall, and it regulates the voltage down to 12? Also how did you modify the power supply?

well I opened 1 up, cut all the volt leds I did not want *do not cut the green wire!*, get a screw terminal wire your volts and grounds to it *yellow and black in my case* then made a lil hole in the PSU case and installed a switch in it, connect the green and black cable to the switch. close back up and you now got a 12 volt terminal power supply

cool, thanks. Though don't some power boxes come with their own switch?

Last time I plugged in a PS outside of a computer I saw blue sparks and nearly crapped myself.

awww no food related LED's this time ;) :p

Coming along nicely I see. I was thinking of making a lighting unit with the SMD LEDs from these things. They've had them at $10 ea. at Michaels. There's a larger version with 30 LEDs instead of 12 too. The color of them is just perfect and they're shockingly bright for the size. For $10 they're not too bad.

get 5050 $3 car bulbs on ebay
usually 9 to a bulb

Holy carp! The whole point of these is they're great quality with nice white light and conveniently attached to a board with resistors and lenses that diffuse the light nicely. I've thought of making a headlamp with just 2-3 of the LEDs too. I can strap the whole thing to my head but it's like wearing a floodlight on my head.

yup

I found a product at Menards that was a portable battery operated lamp with a hook so you can hang it anywhere. The thing had 24 LEDs on it, problem was it had no resistors whatsoever and ate up battery power quickly. From Big Lots I got a small six LED spotlight which is still running on the original batteries I put in it. It kinda looks like a movie type spotlight as it can be turned 360 degrees as well as tilted almost the same degress and you can attach it to a wall, ceiling, etc.

Yeah I found a touch light in the past, nodded from 4 to 24 LEDs and added a resistor to it, bright for 6volts

What color are they?

posting in just a min

What's the cost here?

$75 for 5 panels worth with spare leds too

Weller is my hero. Your's too apparently :)

Yup makes great tools

are they all wired together, or did you do each row separately? That way you can have mood lighting with just one or 2 rows on, or all 4 for full brightness.

well the wires in red are splitting up the pos and negative, so that option is there if I want to add it

One question. At my local Big Lots they had a bunch of USB powered LED Xmas lights. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue; then repeated that pattern a second time. Each LED has a resistor attached to them, but one thing I don't know is just how much power a USB puts out. Sucks being me, so many ideas I have and no real skills in the area. Oh well.

Looks like you've done a great job keeping the LEDs nice and straight and organized ^^