L.E.D. QUESTION

[katheiser]

Good day all. After waiting and waiting, brown Santa, (UPS) finally delivered the stuff I needed to shorten my esc wires. Now I'm just waiting for a new VTX, and we can all see what happens. However, Last night, in an effort to make my quad as clean as possible, I took out my Hodge podge of wiring I had to power my 2 led strips I use for orientation. Problem is now, I cant see a good way to connect this back up. The way I had it was, I soldered a smaller wire into my main power wire, then ran a weird jumper to the led strips. This worked, but it just looked terrible. I don't want to have a ton of wire going every witch way. My idea is, to somehow use the bec that is in my pdb, but that is only 5v. So has anyone seen any 5v led strips in various colors? Or could someone send me a link to a small, lightweight 5v to 12v step up? I've searched for some, but I'm not exactly what I need, so I'm hesitant to buy anything. Thanks!

 

[katheiser]

Here is a link to the L.E.D.s I have.

http://rctimer.com/product-1350.html

And yes, I have tried soldering them directly to my 12v + and - on my pdb, but for some reason I cant get anything to stick to the factory solder. (noob)
I considered tapping into my esc soldering, but I'm thinking this is a bad idea.

 

[holtneil]

Hi mate some thimes there is a coating on the wires use a craft knife to scrap the connect dont ge to ruff on it , then use flux to clean the connection it should then solder ok
make up a small loom to power the lights off the PDB

 

[Jackson]

I considered tapping into my esc soldering, but I'm thinking this is a bad idea.

Sounds fine to me. When you look at basic PDBs they have just +/- solder pads, having the LED wires at the same pad with ESC wires makes no difference. Also note a 3 light bar only uses <40mA of current so you can use very thin wires.

 

[katheiser]

Thanks jackson! I'll give this a go tonight!

 

[katheiser]

 

[katheiser]

Well, that worked. Thanks all!