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  1. Pharaday

    help choosing inverter please

    I finally got a decent panel array and battery bank purchased and I was hoping yall could help me chose out a good inverter. I'm on a budget and my price range is around $150 right now and I'd love it to be ballpark 2000 Watts. I have 12 of these batteries (2V 152ah VRLA batteries)...
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    Found barely buried live wire in yard

    Na, poking at it with my dual meter was what saved me from trouble. I was picking up trash, remember? A lesser man woulda grabbed it to put it in his bag willy nilly.
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    Found barely buried live wire in yard

    Also: that house has been vacant for years and there is no power on inside. Why would there be power going to that house in the 1st place? Or are meters just always powered if in usage or not? There are a bunch of other wires as well, I'm sure I could have found a 220 Volt pair
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    Found barely buried live wire in yard

    I was cleaning up an area where I was building a dog yard for my pups and I noticed a wire coming out of the ground and I wanted it gone. Fortunately I was among the 1% of the people in this town who would bust out a multi meter and check the wires first. I'm not afraid of low voltage but yeah...
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    Help choosing power source

    Right on! Thanks, both of you! I somehow didn't think it could be that simple. I got it working with a huge printer AC adapter. To answer your question, those backlights are free. I harvest untold numbers of them from broken LED TVs. I did buy one of those 12V light strips to check them out...
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    Help choosing power source

    ok, OP, I alone hold the answers you seek. What you're gonna wanna do is take mains power from your house and simply convert it into DC via a common AC/\/DC converter. Use a fuse when working with mains. If that's not enough power, simply use one of your transformers. Your only other option is...
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    Help choosing power source

    I donno guys do these things take too much jefferson damn power? I'm now thinking of using mortal LEDs for my unnecessarily lit coffee tables like a common hobo. These things are just so near impossible to blow and freakishly bright. Weigh that against 40V to power 24 LEDs, man. I can still look...
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    Help choosing power source

    Also, those printer 32V supplies are the highest voltage ones I have. I feel like a ~40V one would do it, but I'd prefer not to have to wait on shipping to order one I'm not sure will work. I have all common voltage/amp supplies below 32V
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    Help choosing power source

    Ok guys, today I wanna build a light out of 24 of those backlight LEDs from TVs (LM41-00121E could not find datasheet right away, here is ebay link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAMSUNG-UN65MU6290-LED-STRIPS-LM41-00121E-LM41-00121F-39667A-39668A-/333065226733 ). I'd like the light to have a power...
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    Battery ruined by diode and LED

    Of course I know I'll die but that's the right attitude to have. Believing it guides my decisions like quitting smoking and becoming an engineer instead of a soldier, cause I hafta live forever. The dying of the light and all...... I have to congratulate you on your wisdom and healthy living...
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    Battery ruined by diode and LED

    I donno about you guys..... Heaven sounds great but I don't plan on dying at all.
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    Battery ruined by diode and LED

    What a couple of success stories! Yall SURVIVED it and now it will take something twice as strong to make you flinch! You guys rock. Yea man, I know that vaping is not actually quitting anything. I'll say this, after I quit smoking I felt like I grew 15 new lungs. I could smell things again! But...
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    Battery ruined by diode and LED

    I use the Victagen charger that shipped along side my Victagen batteries (Now I run the positive and negative contacts through appropriate gauge wires to my battery inside the e-cig, same thing).
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    Battery ruined by diode and LED

    Yea but I didn't make it.... surely you understand how I want to build one in myself. If for no other reason, so I learn how to do it correctly. Cmon, hit me with some how-to's, not some why-I-shouldn't-try's
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    Battery ruined by diode and LED

    The battery is victagen, as is the charger. They are IMP 18650. They have 3200 mAh and are 5 volts. Yes, each led has a 1kΩ resistor.
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    Battery ruined by diode and LED

    Can you elaborate on that? How would I connect those things up to produce that result? Maybe show me a circuit diagram?
  17. Pharaday

    Battery ruined by diode and LED

    Ok, guys I quit smoking and made my own ecig out of an old atomizer (the part with a coil surrounding cotton that soaks up the ejuice and gets vaporized by the coil) and battery from a broken ecig. It was pretty basic. I put a battery and ran 2 wires to the atomizer. I added a button on the...
  18. Pharaday

    simple component indentification

    but man hang on transformers?! little tiny transformer? I'll get you pin count but what (ballpark) kinda voltage are we talking for these? That's.... neat...... little transformers?!
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    simple component indentification

    You know, I haven't removed them yet, they're SMD and I hate that crap with my caveman melty stick, I'm liable to incinerate it. But actually who cares I'll give it a shot. My SMD LED mortality rate is like 50% heh
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    simple component indentification

    Hey I cant find the dataheet for these 2 black rectangular part with the coils drawn on them. What are these?
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