Building DIY LED strips for fun

Re:Building DIY LED strips for fun by flywheel on Sunday July 19, 2020 @03:17PM (#23891656)

LEDs get a lot of attention from people without any kind of training with electronics, but they aren't as simple as people think - LEDs consume a lot of power. If someone isn't careful and doesn't know what they are doing, it's very easy for them to create a fire hazard.

https://hackaday.com/2018/01/29/the-engineering-case-for-fus...

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Re:Building DIY LED strips for fun by fock on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:47PM (#23892727)

good to see that! I (physics grad) was eyed very skeptically by a crowd of CS and architecture (like in houses) people, when I started buying fuses and caring about fire-safety (all the people were much like: oh light, wow (whilst I was: power, hot)

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Re:Building DIY LED strips for fun by oneplane on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:39PM (#23892667)

It's also very easy to create crappy lighting conditions because people think of light to be just 'light' which it isn't.

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