Honestly, can you hook up a car battery? If so then strips, boards, cobs are no different. Yes there a couple of factors that need to be sorted out as in drivers, currents, voltages ,wiring diagrams and shit but that’s what RIU is for! After you know what you need, it’s easy peasy man. Also there’s loads of DIY strip tutorials out there. The Meijius look good though, I won’t lie. I just feel the same results or better can be achieved DIY.
Id like to point out a very clear trend here: first diy is mortalizingly scary, one feelS like things will burn up and cause Chernobyl with just having the boards and drivers in the same room. Also one thinks that you have to get it completely right on the first go and make minutiae plans for every detail to be absolutely perfect.
Then eventually comes build day, hopefully you stay on the side of sanity and dont complicate the first build too much. You connect with loads of nerves and it all lights up, maybe with a small.snagg but eventually its up. And you ask yourself what was all that fear a out?!?!
Mikey went thru this, asking loads of questions, and is now on the other side, it didnt take very much really, its just to dive in, keep to common sense advice:
- no water on your lights, no spraying
- no naked electrical cables (doh) and grounding the frame.
- no crazy currents going thru cables of unmatched specs, are there any hot/warm cables? Then sort it out, theyre to thin or overppowered.
- keep to low voltage parallel and smaller drivers and you will not under any circumstance get more than stung by the zapp if you chose to ignore all the above advice.
And once youve done it you realize what f-ing pisstake of easy it was, what were you so afraid off??!?!?!
And you also realize that youre only done for this time, that youll want to work on this again and you want everyone around you to feel that first lights on feeling (wow, jesus its so bright! My light/child has come to life!) that beats the crapp out of any unboxing feeling...
Props to mikey for already giving back and helping people out.