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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
Jarred Land ====> Where did you find the charger for $7? The only ones I can find are much more expensive and much much larger than yours. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying a build that will have a 2 stages of lights connected by a switch. The first stage will be 24 lights like your orignal and the second stage will add 24 more to make a total of 48 lights. Anyways, I would really like to find out where you got your base charger and shoemount.
Thanks,
Jon
Jarred Land ====> Where did you find the charger for $7? The only ones I can find are much more expensive and much much larger than yours. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying a build that will have a 2 stages of lights connected by a switch. The first stage will be 24 lights like your orignal and the second stage will add 24 more to make a total of 48 lights. Anyways, I would really like to find out where you got your base charger and shoemount.
Thanks,
Jon
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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
I got the charger from the company that makes our batteries... charger kinda was sketchy so i didnt decide to sell them.
I got the charger from the company that makes our batteries... charger kinda was sketchy so i didnt decide to sell them.
Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
I'm planning on building one of those as well. I wasn't sure what to use to mount the battery so I decided to pick up a replacment charging plate for a lenmar charger. It was 10 dollars with shipping. I should be getting it in a few days, hopefully it'll do the trick. The model I got was the pp120.
I'm planning on building one of those as well. I wasn't sure what to use to mount the battery so I decided to pick up a replacment charging plate for a lenmar charger. It was 10 dollars with shipping. I should be getting it in a few days, hopefully it'll do the trick. The model I got was the pp120.
Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
I couldn't find a battery charge plate so I used a RC Car battery. I am almost finished with my project and will post pictures and instructions when I am done. Please let me know when you get your charge plate, it would be very nice to have a clean battery mount. The RC Battery works fine but it's big and I have lots of camcorder batteries.
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I couldn't wait so I ordered my charge plate adapter, $10 shipped from Lenmar's website
http://www.lenmar.com/plate_request.asp?
(Choose the plate to match your battery)
Thanks
Jon East
I couldn't find a battery charge plate so I used a RC Car battery. I am almost finished with my project and will post pictures and instructions when I am done. Please let me know when you get your charge plate, it would be very nice to have a clean battery mount. The RC Battery works fine but it's big and I have lots of camcorder batteries.
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I couldn't wait so I ordered my charge plate adapter, $10 shipped from Lenmar's website
http://www.lenmar.com/plate_request.asp?
(Choose the plate to match your battery)
Thanks
Jon East
Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
Jarred,
I used the ProjectX LED light, WC201-03 8000mcd leds. I assembled 40 on one light. The only problem is that when using it for video(in very low light, almost dark) is that everything has a blue tint. What did you do to correct the blue tint?
Thanks,
Jon
Everyone else,
Pictures of the front and back.. 40 led lights in series of 2 wired in parallel. 20 positive wires, 20 negative wires and 20 jumper wires...(thats a bunch of soldering) Be CAREFUL when soldering not to heat up the led leads too much or you will kill the LED. Also, make sure that you wire them in a series so the power is correct, too much power will kill the led as well. They are rated for 3.6v or less. I fried one with 7.2 volts.
Wiring in a series 101 = positive power source to positive led(1) then wire negative led(1) to positive led(2) then wire negative led(2) to negative power source.
Wiring all of them together(parallel) - Basically you will have 1 positive and negative wire for each two led lights. Take all of the positive power source wires from the series of lights and wire it to the positive on your power source and then wire all of the negative power source wire from the series of light to the negative on your power source.
It's that easy. Except for the soldering.... Good Luck!
Jarred,
I used the ProjectX LED light, WC201-03 8000mcd leds. I assembled 40 on one light. The only problem is that when using it for video(in very low light, almost dark) is that everything has a blue tint. What did you do to correct the blue tint?
Thanks,
Jon
Everyone else,
Pictures of the front and back.. 40 led lights in series of 2 wired in parallel. 20 positive wires, 20 negative wires and 20 jumper wires...(thats a bunch of soldering) Be CAREFUL when soldering not to heat up the led leads too much or you will kill the LED. Also, make sure that you wire them in a series so the power is correct, too much power will kill the led as well. They are rated for 3.6v or less. I fried one with 7.2 volts.
Wiring in a series 101 = positive power source to positive led(1) then wire negative led(1) to positive led(2) then wire negative led(2) to negative power source.
Wiring all of them together(parallel) - Basically you will have 1 positive and negative wire for each two led lights. Take all of the positive power source wires from the series of lights and wire it to the positive on your power source and then wire all of the negative power source wire from the series of light to the negative on your power source.
It's that easy. Except for the soldering.... Good Luck!
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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
very nice.. I know what you are talking about the blue.. one batch of LED's had that tint and the other didn't. I would email them at porject x and ask white true white led's they have.
You could put a 1/16 CTO over them might bring it down.
very nice.. I know what you are talking about the blue.. one batch of LED's had that tint and the other didn't. I would email them at porject x and ask white true white led's they have.
You could put a 1/16 CTO over them might bring it down.
Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
Jarred,
I will inquire about the leds with project X. Thx I ordered 80 of them and they all have the blue tint to them. I will ask to see what true white leds they have. It was a fun project.
Everyone else...
I purchased a flash shoe adapter for $10, a battery plate to hold the battery $10, 40 leds $39, radio shack project box and board $5. Total project was $65.
I will order some other LED's and see what happens. The light with these leds works well in low light but if it's almost dark or dark you will look like a smurf on video.
I will keep everyone posted on my findings.
Thanks,
Jon East
--Always love a good project, keeps me out of trouble....
Jarred,
I will inquire about the leds with project X. Thx I ordered 80 of them and they all have the blue tint to them. I will ask to see what true white leds they have. It was a fun project.
Everyone else...
I purchased a flash shoe adapter for $10, a battery plate to hold the battery $10, 40 leds $39, radio shack project box and board $5. Total project was $65.
I will order some other LED's and see what happens. The light with these leds works well in low light but if it's almost dark or dark you will look like a smurf on video.
I will keep everyone posted on my findings.
Thanks,
Jon East
--Always love a good project, keeps me out of trouble....
Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
UPDATE - 2-12-04
The reason for the blue tint according to projectx is because you are overdriving the light with 7.2v to the two leds in a series.
You must wire a resistor in each series, 30ohms 1/4 watt(or 33ohms will do as well). The resistor goes between the positive led of your led series to the positive power source.
In my case with 40 leds, I have 20 series and you need a resistor for each series.
here is a great tutorial on how to wire leds
http://www.theledlight.com/ledcircuits.html
I purchased the resistors today and I will post my findings tonight. If it takes away the blue tint I will let everyone know. I have done a bunch of research since I started and it seems that white leds are actually blue leds with a filter. The lower the mcd value the less blue you will find in the finished product. If you go to led muesuem.org you will find many tests with pictures to just about all the white leds. They have one led @ 6500 that is a true white. Check it out.
I also recieved my Lenmar charger plate today, it fits perfectly on the back of my light, very nice and it's only $10.
I will post a picture of it soon.
Jon
UPDATE - 2-12-04
The reason for the blue tint according to projectx is because you are overdriving the light with 7.2v to the two leds in a series.
You must wire a resistor in each series, 30ohms 1/4 watt(or 33ohms will do as well). The resistor goes between the positive led of your led series to the positive power source.
In my case with 40 leds, I have 20 series and you need a resistor for each series.
here is a great tutorial on how to wire leds
http://www.theledlight.com/ledcircuits.html
I purchased the resistors today and I will post my findings tonight. If it takes away the blue tint I will let everyone know. I have done a bunch of research since I started and it seems that white leds are actually blue leds with a filter. The lower the mcd value the less blue you will find in the finished product. If you go to led muesuem.org you will find many tests with pictures to just about all the white leds. They have one led @ 6500 that is a true white. Check it out.
I also recieved my Lenmar charger plate today, it fits perfectly on the back of my light, very nice and it's only $10.
I will post a picture of it soon.
Jon
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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
yeah you need to buy LED's that are rated to 3.6 volts.. if you buy the 3.2volt ones overdriving them will ruin thier color and thier life.
yeah you need to buy LED's that are rated to 3.6 volts.. if you buy the 3.2volt ones overdriving them will ruin thier color and thier life.
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Gentlemen,
Based on your review of the MCE Quickstream, I placed an order for the 270 Model about two months ago. They have told me they are having production problems and that the unit will be shipped in about 10 days. They have told me this the last 5 times I have called to check on my delivery. Are there problems with this unit or is there something else going on?
Thank you for any light you may be able shed on this situation
Ed Rossman - El Sobrante, CA
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Gentlemen,
Based on your review of the MCE Quickstream, I placed an order for the 270 Model about two months ago. They have told me they are having production problems and that the unit will be shipped in about 10 days. They have told me this the last 5 times I have called to check on my delivery. Are there problems with this unit or is there something else going on?
Thank you for any light you may be able shed on this situation
Ed Rossman - El Sobrante, CA
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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
Hi Jarred Land,
Can find out from you, where you get the hotshoe connector on your lights? Or did you made them yourself?
Hi Jarred Land,
Can find out from you, where you get the hotshoe connector on your lights? Or did you made them yourself?
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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
Hotshoe Connector I bought from BH for 5 dollars, and one actually came with the Quickstream
As with the Quickstream Production Delays, I think they sold more than they originally manufactured and are waiting for new shipment.
Hotshoe Connector I bought from BH for 5 dollars, and one actually came with the Quickstream
As with the Quickstream Production Delays, I think they sold more than they originally manufactured and are waiting for new shipment.
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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
Thanks Jarred Land,
I can't seem to find it in B&H website, is 'hotshoes connector' or 'hotshoe adapter' correct name for it?
Thanks a million!
jinghong
Thanks Jarred Land,
I can't seem to find it in B&H website, is 'hotshoes connector' or 'hotshoe adapter' correct name for it?
Thanks a million!
jinghong
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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
They have a few:
heres mine: price looks like it went up to $10
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=53726&is=REG
but for that price you may want to go this route
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=168888&is=REG
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=240740&is=REG
They have a few:
heres mine: price looks like it went up to $10
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=53726&is=REG
but for that price you may want to go this route
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=168888&is=REG
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=240740&is=REG
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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
didnt see this thread before (from february).
did anyone make a solid light out of these LEDs and are they used now by anyone?
i really would like to build two of them (24 LEDs each). looks great for small rooms and to light up when shooting skaters and snowboarders against the sun - of course you could even light up Brad Pitt when the sun burns his back.
didnt see this thread before (from february).
did anyone make a solid light out of these LEDs and are they used now by anyone?
i really would like to build two of them (24 LEDs each). looks great for small rooms and to light up when shooting skaters and snowboarders against the sun - of course you could even light up Brad Pitt when the sun burns his back.
Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
hello.
not to beat a dead horse but it seems a lot of people asked about the battery connector and the only answer was that it was a standard panasonic charger??
could you post a part number and maybe where to get this beast?
i haven't seen anything like thie anywhere.
matthew
hello.
not to beat a dead horse but it seems a lot of people asked about the battery connector and the only answer was that it was a standard panasonic charger??
could you post a part number and maybe where to get this beast?
i haven't seen anything like thie anywhere.
matthew
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Re: Home made DIY LED baby light
24leds wont light up a snowboarder in the sun.. I will tell you that right now. you need to use bounce cards, as there is some extreame light going on.
24leds wont light up a snowboarder in the sun.. I will tell you that right now. you need to use bounce cards, as there is some extreame light going on.