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Fergus Kyle
Joined: 03 Jun 2007
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Location: Burlington ON Canada
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 Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:09 pm Post subject: AeroElectric-List Digest: 7 Msgs - 11/01/10 |
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Time: 03:50:43 PM PST US
Subject: LED strips for cabin light
From: James Kilford <james(at)etravel.org>
Gents,
I've been pondering for a while what to do about an inexpensive,
neat
cabin light for my Jodel project. I thought LEDs were the way to go,
and instead of fabricating something, bought something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/24-LED-White-Flexible-Strip-Waterproof-Car-Light-Bulb-
/160500858701#ht_3067wt_1066
It runs straight off the bus, is nice and bright, and was easy
enough
to mount. It's set into a slot in a piece of thin ply, with some
spruce stiffeners each side of the slot, then the ply was covered with
headlining material. It fits really well in the cabin roof. Picture
attached. Forgive the poor quality, but hopefully you can make out
what's going on.
James
James:
My only question is : What the current draw for my poor old Ducati?
No one ever seems to say.....
Cheers
Ferg
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rparigoris
Joined: 24 Nov 2009
Posts: 805
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: AeroElectric-List Digest: 7 Msgs - 11/01/10 |
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Hi Ferg
"My only question is : What the current draw for my poor old Ducati?
No one ever seems to say....."
Someone gave me a partial string of LEDs in white that looks similar to what you referenced. I have been mutilating the sealed string to retrieve the individual LEDs that seem to be about the right color temp, size and brightness for several panel lighting applications.
Anyway the ones I have have 3 LEDs in series with a resistor (intended to run off of 12 volts). The 3 series LEDs draw 19 mAs when running off my Odyssey 545. Thus on my string 24 would be drawing 152mAs or .152 amps. I fooled with bumping up to 20, 25, 30 and 35 mAs, not much of an increase in brightness.
Ron Parigoris
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