Hi guys

I need some strips for lighting up my basement and back yard.
Does anybody have any recommendations for cheap and cheerful strips on alibaba/aliexpress?

Thanks in advance

CF

Hi guys I'm going to use LED strips for lighting a hallway, I want these to be triggered by a PIR sensor. What is the best way to do this? Do I get a 240v PIR sensor that activates a constant current driver which in turn powers the LED strips? OR Do I use a constant current driver which powers a 12v...

Hi guys I want to try my hand at soldering some LED's for some personalised lights. More of a hobby than anything else Which ones are the most efficient on the market at the moment and/or provide best bang for buck? I had a quick look at Digikey UK to see what they have in stock and it looks like th...

Thanks for the replys fellas. I need 15 small lights to deliver approx 250 lumens each. I need to be able to turn them all on and off independently. More than likely I'll only have about 3 on at any one time. They are going to be placed kind of awkwardly so there is no way I can light all 15 lights ...

Bump.
If anybody could give me a better way of doing this, I'd be very grateful.

Cheers
CF

Hi guys I need approx 250 lumens of light (and many of them) to run throughout the day. This is the best idea I could put together... I was thinking of powering each lamp with one of these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32899976457.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.7e43713dwoQJoM&algo_pvid=5b106bed-4...

So you already know what strips are you going to use? post the specs. We can't know how much lumens or lm/w any strip is going to output. You should do some test by urself and find out the voltage-current to get 250lm. It is not easy to control each strip separately using a single driver. I would u...

Having a large 24VDC power supply feeding multiple buck converters for each strip is an option. However I don't really see any off-the-shelf 50mA buck converters that aren't tiny chips you'll need to solder. I don't have an issue with soldering tiny chips. There seem to be a few instructables onlin...

Some drivers do have a range of voltages they will work with, but none currently can do 24 to 1200volts. That's a huge difference. Not to mention that 1200volts would be playing with death. You could go with a design with, say, 5strips per driver, 10 drivers at 10watts each, and turn drivers on/off...

You can go as big or as small as you want. Firstly you should decide what strips do you want to use, check their voltage and current. 50 strips at 2 watt each are 100watts so you are going to use common drivers, nothing strange or ultra low power. Depends on whats strips are you going to get and ho...