John's Journal

[Greg]

Outstanding John!  Awaiting the test video.... 

Greg

[ThaiWay]

I may not have all the lights I want yet, but I'm sure gonna have the channels!

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John

[KeithTarpley]

Greetings,,,

Looks good for a test setup.  Where are the real life use controllers?
 

Keith

(Looking good, John...)

[wbuehler]

Looking Good

[ThaiWay]

Population explosion... through Step 4 (phew!)

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[wbuehler]

mmmmmmmm LE'S

[ThaiWay]

Eight is enough... for now!  I feel like I've been living breathing eating LE's for the past four days 

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Just as I was setting up this shot, I looked over at my chinese Hakko solder station clone... the light is on but the heat is not... I guess it died right after I soldered that one leg on LED #7 that somehow got missed the first time around.  That Test Function on the V.3 boards really comes in handy. 

After power testing several of them and watching for the 5V and 3.3V "OK" LED's, I freaked out when I didn't see the lights... and then realized that it was a V.2 board I had plugged in.  You can pick out three of them in the pic.

[PJNMCT]

Eight is enough... for now!  I feel like I've been living breathing eating LE's for the past four days  

...Now it's off to do the cases and cords     I know I just went through the same thing 

-Paul

[wbuehler]

Eight is enough... for now!  I feel like I've been living breathing eating LE's for the past four days 

I know your pain 

[blearning]

I am with RJ ...

I think Photoshop did the work ... LOL

Nice Job ...

[REM]

Yeah, my daughter and I wired up some LEs and SSR4s this weekend. All together it was about 130 cords worth.  Man do my hands and fingers hurt!  When I first set off on this adventure I really under estimated both the cost and time involved in wiring controllers.  You're looking at 144 cords there John   Time to dig in.

--Ron

[ThaiWay]

Holy Leaping Arches!  I seem never to be able to do anything simply...

I drilled holes every 35cm in a 4m 1-1/2" thin wall PVC and fished 20 gauge lamp cord through the inside.  Man, that's a lot of wire for one arch.  I'll have 11 channels per arch, each with two strings of 100-ct 5mm 220V LED's ($1.90 a pop.)

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There oughta be a law!  (Actually there is in real countries.)  These strings use such thin wire... I'll be hand wrapping to line up the bulbs and get the spacing right.  Since each string has it's own bridge rectifier dongle, I'm cutting them off, joining two strings to the lampcord, and then soldering the dongle + plug at the cord end.

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Two channels... I might get four arches done by next year 

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[rrowan]

Nice

I hope to do a couple of arches this weekend. Just not sure what the wife has plans to do. Today is her birthday so I guess she can over rule me this time LOL

John, after the holidays I still need your help on the BOM240 volt page or we can just delete the page if its not needed.

Cheers

Rick R.

[ThaiWay]

Help is just around the corner Rick!  I haven't forgotten... and many thanks for your constant updates oh great Wiki Master!   And best wishes for the missus too

John

[wbuehler]

Looking good John

Bill