Recent content by George M

On second look, nevermind... it looks like my brain took a break and I connected back end to +12V. Yeah, zap.

I was getting dreaded yellow at end of strip at full white, so I looped voltage feed to end of string, and bam, melted roughly the last quarter of the strip. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this wiring? Is this not good with a buck converter? If so, if I break the +5v line in the middle...

The controller has a 7-24V input rating, and it will be fed from the 12V battery source directly. There will be (2) 100Ah marine batteries (in parallel) backed up by a 19A alternator on the outboard. Given the battery sizes, I doubt there'll be any significant voltage transients (max range...

Thank you, Alan. It looked over complicated to me, but I really didn't know if these strips will do full white without V drop and yellowing. For what it's worth, I was going to put some Schottky diodes on the v+ lines, and thought that might help. But honestly they won't be at full white that...

Hello, new member to this forum. Joined after gleaning much info on the site- thanks all. I have a simple project of adding LED strips to the sides of my pontoon boat. I've drafted my layout (I prefer 5V strips vs 12V for the power efficiency on the boat), and I'd like anyone knowledgeable to...