The Comprehensive Newbie Guide to LEDs in Miniatures Terrain
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Bored of scavenging tea lights for your DIY Warhammer and Dungeons and Dragons terrain? Time to graduate to custom LED circuit design and construction. This video is intended for absolute beginners with zero electronics experience.
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I am an electromechanical engineer and I was a professor at the University for 25 years, of course I know what you taught in this video. But it is the clearest, most direct, useful, enjoyable teaching I have ever seen. I congratulate you, because it will be of great value to many and an example of how to make a teaching video
Thank you kindly
@@WylochsArmory Somebody said that only Americans are born camera-ready. (And at least one Canadian, of course.)
I knew nothing about installation of LEDs before I watched this. I donʼt see how the material could be explained better.
Bill Wy the Science Guy... Bill Bill Bill :) Great vid
@@WylochsArmory I have looked into doing custom LEDs for stuff, even got it working with a bit of luck. (I have a master in computer science and wired/programmed custom circuits for stuff like Cloth touch pads) this is the first time I actually understood exactly what was going on and I've been through quite a few tutorials. Really great presentation !
God so much better explanation then the AC/DC books I have read.
This is a great video. I had learned all this stuff about 5 years ago but never used it. This was very easy to pay attention to and I enjoyed that very much. Thank you
I am actually wanting to work in a cyberpunk board for opr and infinity. Really looking forward to your tutorial.
Could you do a video explaining on how to get a flickering and fading effect with LEDs?
Any chance you could clarify the diagram at the 5:00 mark? It shows the resistor as being placed at the end of the series (after the LEDs). In reality shouldn't the resistor be placed "in front" of the LEDs in the series (in between the battery's positive pole and the first LED's positive wire)? Or am I misunderstanding? Thank you for this video!
Resistor placement does not matter as long as it is in series. It can go on either side of the LED.
Think of it like a drinking straw. Pinch the straw and you cannot sip any more liquid. Does it matter if you pinch it near your mouth or near the cup?
@Wyloch's Armory Thank you for explaining! This had been confusing me and I wasn't sure if the position made any difference
As an electrician and hobbyist, I approve of this video. Good show.
Thank you kindly
Understood more in 14 minutes than I did over entire units on electricity back in high school. Thank you for this.
I'm almost immediately reminded that I want to disassemble a vacuum cleaner for bits..
There's treasure troves in them things.
Scratch Bashing doing what Scratch Bashing does best
Thank you! I used to put together Radio Shack kits in my youth, but since I'm not an engineer, I forget a lot of what I learned then. Easy to understand, great explanation.
Oh man thank you for this no nonsense demo. I've been so confused.
Dude...thank you so much for the class! This is awesome! Must have video. No more wasteful led light strips or annoying tealights. Saved to my terrain crafting folder!!
First of all, awesome teaser, got me really excited about upcoming build. Secondly and most importantly, the guide is great. I was avoiding the led lighting in my own builds for ages (lying to myself that it is not that great feature anyway) but now I feel empowered to try. Thanks for sharing this!
Right back to physics class :) Thanks for the flashback, and cool video. BTW... this would have been a great video to collab on for my video tomorrow.
I didn't realize that wire was available LITERALLY ANYWHERE. I guess I can cancel my trip to home depot and just walk across the street to the local park instead. (haha, just kidding around, I know what you mean, and thanks for the video. I hope to do this one day)
Great stuff! Gave me some serious shake-and-bake USAF electrical engineering flashbacks ;-)
This has been the clearest, more directed and amazing electrical tutorial I have seen! This simple concept always makes my brain wrap into knots and I constantly have to relearn it. (Never learned resistors before). So my goodness! Thank you. You're a fantastic teacher! Both in regards to the information presented but also in providing a low stress alternative with the resistor test towards the end. I'm adding a breadboard to my cart as we speak thanks to this. (Also don't worry. I still want to get to know how to KNOW what I'm doing and not just doing it. So I'm excited to start understanding and using the spec sheets with my LEDS for more immediate control too)
Yes you can add batteries in series/parallel... BUT they have to be the same type (lead-acid, LiPo, NiMh, etc) or same like AA/AAA/C/D etc and also the same voltage! So don't mix them and even tho you have a 6V lead-acid and a 12V lead-acid, don't combine them. The result is that they exchange an internal currant from 1 battery to the other and will destroy the battery/cause fire... Don't mix non-rechargeble AA with rechargeble AA (1.5V vs 1.2V)
Also putting LEDs in series will work with lesser amps, thus resulting in longer battery life, but if 1 LED dies, the circuit is open and ALL light will go out. If in parallel an LED dies, the rest will still burn.
Yes the long leg of the LED is the +, but what if they bent and broke off? A few things you can see to determine what + and - is on a LED. All + is: longest leg, smallest anode inside bulb, round side of the bulb. All the - is: shortest leg, biggest cathode, flat side. I'm Dutch so we used KNAP to remember it (Kathode Negative, Anode Positive) --> Knap is the Dutch word for handsome 😉
NEVER put a LED to a power source without a resistor!!! The LED is an Diode so it will be like short circuiting the voltage source with a wire... (but because the internal resistance of CR2032, and not capable of delivering high currents, in this case it's "OK" to do this test... Don't do that with say a 6V lead-acid battery or you will burn the legs of the LED in your flesh... I know...
Best video on this subject I have seen! Thank you!
Love the shirt!!! Also great clip for the video! Love that meme! Looking forward to catching up on your videos!
I have started using LEDs in my builds. This video made me a lot more comfortable doing so. Nice job!
Sadly, I failed algebra every year I took it….which didn’t start till 9th grade. And I haven’t gotten to the tea light stage either. I’ll keep looking.
Thank you for going into some basic theory, not just "do this, it's cool!" More crafters are doing this sort of work, it's great to have resources on it from you, as well.
This was the best teaching video I've ever seen for electronics basics
Great video Wyloch! I just got done with a bunch of LED work too and I've learned you can never have too many! Cheers
Yeah! Notification gang! Looks interesting, always wanted an updated version to your old tutorial!
Also, just saw the cyberpunk terrain, looks awesome!
I just realized I know too many EEs!
Oh man, when I unpack my Christmas decorations this year I may have to sacrifice a strand to the gods of crafting!
Thank you for giving such nice definitions of terms before launching into the explanation! This video is definitely staying on my reference list.
The best time to get Christmas lights is the days after Christmas, in my experience. Also, if you end up with a few broken LEDs you can sometimes swap them in from a sacrificial strand, which can also be picked apart for hobbying...
You da man!
I just love your videos! Gets my brain going and starts my own terrain creativity!
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
I have been watching your videos since I found your first dungeon tile videos. While your crafting techniques and video style has evolved what you have kept and what always keeps me coming back is how systematic, clear and thorough you are. Excited to see the finished cyberpunk build!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I've been scared to try anything with any electrical circuitry and now I feel that I could do some things using LEDs and resistors (I never ever knew what purpose those had!) and batteries without frying myself. OK, I probably wouldn't have fried myself but I sure would've done it totally wrong.
heh
i just bought myself a bunch of tea lights :D
They are still a great source for small switches and batteries. And now you can tear em apart and rewire them!
Dang! I've definitely been illuminated. Will have to refer back to this video when I use more than one LED.
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Thank you. I knew jack about this stuff. Now I’m scratching the surface. Woohoo!
I would be careful just tossing an LED on a 3v battery I have totally smoked (and was confused why the yellow LED was red) a few LEDs. There are some sweet LED testers you can get that are current controlled that are a better option
So helpful thank you. This made it so much easier to understand.
Best teaching video i have ever seen.Love Your knowlage and peace in Your voice.Im a car mechanic and start learning electronics few months ago.Even my english its not so good i inderstood everything You say.Love it.Btw diorama looks great.Hope will finde more videoas from You about electronics.Cheers from Poland.🥂
Thank you, for this excellent, concise extremely helpful video.
Thanks for making this so clear to understand. I’m keen to make some neon flashing signs. Any tips?
This was perfect resurrection of my grade 5 physics classes!
But if u have limited spaces for the batteries example on gunpla, u need to build it in pararel, it will draw larger ampere but same voltage across all the leds. So all the leds across the gunpla can be powered by 1 single batteries. And little tips use SMD led 0402 0603 0805 its much smaller like 1.6x0.8 mm. And u can search for SMD resistor too.
so ... here's an issue I'm having. I have a series circuit of 3 LEDs... two of them are lit sort of dim (but actually at the brightness i would like) and the one closest to the negative lead is super bright... would installing a resistor help even the lights out? does it matter where I install it in the sequence (for example, between the dim and bright bulbs?)
Awesome!! Masterclass Tabletop game LED 101!!! Thanks a lot for that, it's very useful! :) ..Also, if I may, It would be great if yo can show how to use DC or USB (5V) "battery pack/ power bank" as the power sources. Thanks again.
I also thought of harvesting chrisrmas light, they used to work with electrical power supply can you use that as well
Good explanation, but I am British and we say "solder" as the spelling suggests.
As we should. Just as we should cook with "h"erbs.
I haven't played with breadboards, resisters, and LED's since 1998. Collage/Tech School was about the last time I used a Soldering Iron.
Hi, thanks again for the awesome video! I am trying to assemble my own circuit now. And I do have a question: At around 12:50 you show a circuit of 3 LEDs in a row and that paralleled 4 times in total. How is it possible that 3 blue LEDs with a forward voltage of around 3 V each light up with a 9V battery? Wouldn't 9V - 3-3-3 equal 0? And what is the resistance used for that? I am a bit confused... Thanks in advance!
So many things make sense now, especially the batterylife diffrence between lights ive had
Omg I’ve been watching like 10 other vids trying to figure out what ohm resistor I need and the calculators confused me but you made it click thank you so much
Only thing is you skipped flux but it’s technically not required (think)
this is an awesome video, thanks for sharing. Have you looked at the COB LED strips? Just started looking into them for a new Space ship model Im working on
Dammit! I came for fun and ended up learning stuff! Perfect timing for my crafting as I'm diving into LEDs now. Also, I did still have fun! Great vid!
An Excellent Video making for much easier working out of lighting. Many thanks for producing and posting this video.
Install electrolytic capacitors any way round you like, kids. That's definitely never a problem, ever.
Did electronics for years in the Navy working on Sonar systems. Wish you had taught the Basic Electronics course.
"All you need is basic 4th grade Algebra knowledge."
Welp, I'm out.
I appreciate the video! Been watching quite a few LED videos over the past day. Yours was very helpful!
If lazy, you could also just use a Christmas tree LED chain...of course you are less flexible and need to find a way to route it through the entire terrain without being visible...where you don't want it to be visible...
If you want to get maximum flexibility and get better at working with electronics, this is a great video to get started though!
i made a LED tree every branch is a serie , there are 2 branches with 4 LED series wich i have noticed that when I unplug the power suply those eight LED turnf of more slowly than the rest.. are 3mm yellow LEDs fed with 19 v and I used a 560 ohms resistor for each 4LED serie. Is it any issue or it´s just the resistors dissipating the current?
Excuse my English im a spanish native speaker
typical forward voltage for LEDS:
1.8-2.3 for red and yellow
2.8-3.6 for green, blue and white.
Well, it's the first time I followed avideo about electronics and stayed to the end AND understood everything, you're good man ^^
yessssssssss!
I have a question for whoever reads me: Is there a preferable type of battery that is more respectable with the environment? I am not clear about the duration of these batteries, considering that I have a project in hand for several buildings that may be used regularly, so as not to use them in "excess", when I could be using another energy source. Obviously using the power grid is out the ecuation since they will be modular.
Thanks in advance, loved the video!
Fantastic video, im currently trying to put two LEDs in my imperial knight head.
Thank you for making this video simple. I have seen many videos either on You Tube or during my days in class watching those almost broken film shows before videos. They were hard to follow with heavy formulas. Or the film broke. At least class was over because off that
Hi, would you consider producing a video that includes led’s that have prewired resistors and also how to select a proper wall power supply that converts to 12v DC. What are the considerations of selecting amp output of said supply etc.?
dude you don't buy LEDS from a supplier for hobby purposes!
that's for people designing things they hope to make a commercial product. you pay extra for
reliability.
for hobby just order your stuff off ebay from china.
the minor variances in brightness and occasional dud (i haven't had one yet) are no problem for hobbying.
and on ebay you can find just about every type of led u can think of, usually in bags of 100pcs for a couple of bucks.
What if I wanted to put an LED inside of a 3D printed character miniature? Is there a battery that could power an LED that could fit into a 30mm scale mini?
Oh man, I’m so sick of using tealights. Saved this to my ‘game changing info videos’ playlist XD. Thank you so much for this.
This was a really well made video, easy and concise but what 4th grader do you know that is learning algebra? that was like 7th grade or 8th grade but a lot of my classmates didn't get taught algebra till 9th grade lol
greatest video in all youtube explaining this... awesome!!
I used to work at Digi-Key! Literally all of it ships out of a single facility in rural Minnesota that employs like half the town, lol.
Brilliantly explained. Thank you for this video!
Fantastic sir thank you much for this I want to light a model of the uss enterprise A and it seems so overwhelming but after this I can total confidence and no worries I know it can be done and how to go about it correctly now. Great informative video
Thank you for providing a straightforward, clear presentation on not only using LEDs, but the basics behind them. I need to watch this a few more times just to take notes.
Where were you when I was taking AP Physics Wyloch?!?? 😂
Thank you for this! Exactly what I was looking for.
yes adding 2 9v batteries becomes 18V but it does not increase the a-hr of the battery so it will not last any longer. If you connect in parallel then the voltage stays the same but then you increase the A-hr of the batteries which increases how long they last. So if you connect it in a combination circuit, you can increase voltage and A-hr. Just know that increasing the voltage does not increase how long the battery lasts.
Awesome explanation, you forgot to link the switch tho
Looking forward to the cyberpunk build!
I teach Physics middle and high schoolers, this was a great explanation.
This was so easy to understand!!! THANK YOU.
Great Video, learn a lot about foreword voltage and usage of the right resistor. Thanks
three minutes into the video and i'm already wondering who i can just pay to build this for me!
450 ohms….well OHMost….
-.-
Nice.
AWESOME! I've always been raised in the wise mindset of "It'll shock you to hell and back so don't mess with it" so seeing a really nice, concise video explaining the basics is really encouraging to see. Will definitely use this video later in my projects!
Thank you mate I was struggling with this nice and simple 👍
Love the videos, new and old.
This one is GOLDEN.
hi just saw this vid... idk if you'll read this but what if i want to use a usb plug or a adapter to power the lights? so that i don't have to deal with batteries... thank you in advance
Stay out of my head! I was looking for something like this!
Ok. But how can i make them flicker and still fit in a small mech?
Thank you. I've been looking for a video like this.
This video is fantastic. I rarely work with electronics so I have to review all this material every time. This video is a great refresher that covers all the important material quickly.
Great video, thank you for the insight and step by step.
wait, where do we go if we still need help reappropriating those tealights?
Very interesting video. Thank you
Excellent stuff. Thanks Wyloch
Thank you! You are so great at communicating this!