Need Help RGB led's?
 

I going to FFFin throw a hammer thru my garage window!! How the hell do you solder these tiny little tabs together?? Im going to break something.

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Your In Luck I just happend to be lurking here and saw your post.
See if this Video I made helps you out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E2C_gHopH4

A few tip's
#1 Get a Fiberglass cleaning pen its (in the video) helps prep and clean the surface of the led strip so the solder makes a good solid connection.
#2 Get a Solder Iron with a Very Small (sharp) tip. This helps you NOT over solder the connection and it keeps the heat right where the tip is. If you use a traditional gun the tip is to wide for a 11mm RGB strip and its easy to De-Solder the connection Next to the one your doing.and you could dammage the RGB stip with to much heat from a fat tip.
I use a Weller solder station, It was $120 and its a Great Investment. I also have a Hakko Station they are also great, Again under $150 and well worth it. If you have the right solder gun it makes the job much easyer and the finish product will be better.

Grant obviously you have done this before so help me out a little please. I've looking into doing this in my boat more or less just because I want a fun project and It seems like I can do it for pretty cheap. I have zero experience with LED's but all I know is they don't use much power. If I wanted to run some RGB's around my 11 cup holders and maybe a strip under the helm what would I need exactly besides enough ft of waterproof LEDs. I've seen some kits with controllers and power supplies on amazon for around $30. Can I just buy one of these and then buy another roll of LED's if I need and just keep on stringing them together or is their a limit to what the controller can handle? It seems like these are 12v but they plug into a 110v socket? I can just ditch that cable and wire the controller directly to the batteries/switch etc...? Thanks!

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OK guys. That helped. I got 4-strips made this weekend. 2 for my CBR 1000RR and 2- big ones for my amp area for the boat. Luckily they are both red!! Thanks again for settling me down. Jet

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