How to wire an RGB?

[dj2rbo]

Hi Fender. Does it still light up backwards? The reason I'm asking is I wired mine pos to pos and negative to negative and it worked.

[vamphunterx]

Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out the best way to do RGB and it seems the DealExtreme LED will work best for now since I don't have any experience with multiple colors.

I'm looking to make a saber with constantly changing colors. I ripped open a color changing night light from Wal-Mart and I think the board from that should work since it does exactly what I need. It just lights up a Red LED, a Green LED, and a Blue LED in a cycling pattern to create this really cool and gradual shifting of colors. I just need to change the resistors on it since I'll be using a much lower voltage than what its made for.

[xl97]

I believe that is the correct LED



also..have you metered the 'pcb' you are trying to use? to see what type of current/juice it puts out?

my first thought would be that it doesnt give enough to drive a high powered LED..

the DX RGB needs te following per DIE:

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Red: 2.5V ~ 3.0V, 350mA
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Green: 3.2V ~ 3.8V, 350mA
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Blue: 3.2V ~ 3.8V, 350mA

[vamphunterx]

I don't have a multimeter(I think thats what I need to measure that, right?)

I also saw something about Seoul Q5, but I can't find these on Seoul website

[Skottsaber]

Try P5

[Azmaria Dei]

first off, be careful linking to their site since Tim sells some things that they also sell.

second off, it's a Seoul P5, just as has been mentioned in the other thread about RGB LEDs.

third off, that's a rather low max mA rating for each die... you might want to search for a CREE MC-E RGBW on there if you're bent on ordering from them...

fourth off, the one time i ordered from them it took nearly 2 months to get my order and other people seem to have similar shipping wait times (1-3 months).

[vamphunterx]

Thanks everyone

[Azmaria Dei]

Thanks Skottsaber & xl97

i guess i'm just chopped liver or something then...

[vamphunterx]

I'm sorry Azmaria, Thank You too. I didn't know you had also answered my question on the other RGB thread. And I don't think I'm gonna go with DX now since you and others have said that they can take a while to ship orders. I also want something with a little more "umph" to it.

I also feel stupid since I completely forgot about posting questions about this stuff about 2 years ago. But I haven't really been on here since that time until now. And now I see that Sunrider had suggested the perfect alternative to the Walmart light pcb I was originally thinking about using. Next time I'll try not to be so lazy not to thoroughly search through old posts.

[Azmaria Dei]

no worries love - it happens to all of us. ^_^