Hacking Ikea's MITTLED light
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2021
- Stumbled with the problem of missing cable to connect MITTLED to 24V power supply. Well turned out to be not a problem, with little hack I can overcome this problem !
#ikea #mittled #hack 
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3:57 don't worry, you're not alone, I bought 3 of these hoping to get it installed immediatelly when I get home only to find out I am short of many things.
Oh man, I feel your pain! I hope people will warch this vid before going and bying things in Ikea ;)
same here, bringing it back
Thanks for the video- Ikea really dropped the ball on their LED lighting- their systems are hard to understand and even in store their is no information to make the whole system work.
Thank you for watching! Definitely confusing !
I can see how people would be confused if they come straight to lighting and pick them up but these are part of the kitchen system. The staff will plan your kitchen out and tell you what to buy. I’d suggest anyone doing these lights go talk to the kitchen staff.
Good idea! Also videos like mine will bring awareness as well !
“freeking thank you very much” 😂😂
I just bought these and also didn’t realize it didn’t come with wires
Haha! Happy to help
Just dealing with this same thing. I ordered a Silverglans light online for $17. Great deal! Website didn't show it needed anything else. Power supply and controler was $40 so my cheap $17 light became a not so cheap $57 ight. Was pondering cutting the connector off and wiring it to a 12v supply I have for DIY Halloween lighting but need to check required voltage / ma first.
Yeah.... But 12v will not cut it, you need 24v.... well at least 20 ( may reuse laptop charging brick from old laptop )
RMF (read the manual first) - the cable is not included as only one is needed for the entire set of lamps, if you install several of them., max 10. If it would be included with every lamp trash collector (like you with the leftovers of the other lamp) would have more trash to collect.
It was not really obvious, but thank you for your kind explanation
@@InsideOutElectronics it literally said it on the front of the box XD (0:33)
@@JackStrips yes, in tiny letters, and later in the video i mention that :)
Their website says its warm white 2700 kelvin - that sure looks like 'cool white' to me which is not going to be flattering. Maybe it is just the camera showing it as very very white.
It looks good, I would say it is correct at 2700-ish. This is my white balance is throwing you off.
Do you know if it's possible to cut these down to a custom length? The extrusion should be easy, but not sure about the LED's if that would cause a problem
Great video! So I’m trying to figure out which side of that connector is + If I look at the mittled from the end with the ikea label on the right side and the led facing up, which side of the connector is + ?
Here is the exact frame - ruclips.net/video/tFsiuThSGro/видео.html showing polarity !
рили гуд, рашан мэн хэс бин фаунд ин кэнада
Awesome video man. What are the red connectors and crimps?
Thank you ! These called "JST Connector for RC Battery"
Do you know if we attach it to a regular wall junction dimmer how to have it dim through different brightness levels? Currently it is only turning on or off.
Thank toy for asking. But it not going to work. You need ikeas wireless dimmer button that will control this. Look for tradfri device
hey there! I have a question and maybe you are able to help me! I managed to connect two Mittled bars with these red JST-RCY connectors you are using in the video. (I could not use the propprietary Ikea connector, because I needed to install the bars in a 90° angle) Everything seems to work now, but: when I try to add a third bar to the system, using the Ikea-connector, the light starts blinking and then the whole thing crashes (= lights out). I'm wondering if this may have something to do with the voltage or with the type of the wire I am using (22 AWG), but I don't know. Any ideas?
Yes, could be thing wires OR it can be that you are overloading PSU. What is the power supply wattage and the combined wattage of Mittled bars?
Can the LED strip be cut to a shorter length to make a custom length light?
Thank you for watching, no I think this unit cannot be cut to size. But they exist in fe different sizes
same. they cheated me when I found out the power cord is not included
yea, it is terrible..... I was quite angry at first !
People amaze me they say O look free parts, free fixings. No you have paid for it all, nothing is free, but the video was good.
Thank you for watching! Thank you for support
This goes straight to save for me.
But damn those things are 30-45 EUR gere in Europe 😂😂😂
Wtf?!
No way ! This is way too expensive :(
Film o tym jak sobie skomplikować życie oszczędzając kilka euro.
To się zakłada w 20 minut i zapominamy o temacie.
To jak instrukcja jak wymienić oponę łyżką do zupy.
Dzięki za oglądanie. Jeśli nie możesz dostać się do sklepu, to ci pomoże :D
W przeciwnym razie tak idź i kup odpowiedni kabel.
@@InsideOutElectronics klikam w koszyk w sklepie, kurier dostarczy mi kabel następnego dnia.
What size of wire will work for this?
Probably 20-24 away, I gust grabbed what I had from onother ikea product. Current is not high 0.35A or so
It makes sense to not include the cable as most people will run more than 1 and people require different lengths of the cable. People would end up with a lot of cable in lengths they don't need. Guess who would pay for that? Who would be cheated then? :)
I agree, that was just not obvious at first place ! It was surprise for me :D
Those smd LEDs are more brighter than normal one's we can easily identify the color of hah
You think the arey owerdriven?
@@InsideOutElectronics I think so...!
@@InsideOutElectronics they looks a little bit Thick than normal ones ( if we buy them separately) if we compare it without turning on
@@DIYwithBatteries I will measure the current and count the LEDs then we can see if they driven too hard
I like your accent, where are you from?
Canada :D
He is probably Russian or Ukrainian, they have the same accent.
Bought 7 of the 80cm mittleds yesterday with two 30w drivers (60w total), 1x fornimma (power cable from driver to outlet) and the vagdal (mittled to driver). They say you can daisy chain up to 10 mittleds together.. I presume with the one vagdal but it seemed to overload the drivers (flashing lights) no matter what configuration I had. Ended up having to separate the 7 mittleds into two groups, each to their own driver and outlet. Anyone else had a similar project and had the same result? Instructions are quite confusing, and I can’t find anything online that says my config could/couldn’t work. My only guess is, and I’m no electrician, that even though I had two drivers interconnected, each one still only outputs up to 30w. With the single vagdal connecting all 7 mittleds, the drivers don’t evenly supply the 60w of needed power?
I think you have to have a driver per group I do not think you can daisy chain drivers. Curious what is the wattage on the single panel? I does now say this on Ikea website, unfortunately...
@@InsideOutElectronics there’s a cable you can get (which I have) that lets you daisy chain the drivers, but I think this just means that all drivers run through one outlet rather than increasing the overall watts. While each driver is 30w, I now don’t think that daisy chaining the drivers means it’s 60w total, it’s just 2x 30w with the benefit of only using one power outlet. You still need to group the mittleds into max 30w combinations
@@mattle2646 I see, do you if there is an option for single 60w PSU?
@@InsideOutElectronics Nah not that I know of. I think the max is 30w. Maybe one day they’ll release something bigger
Do you know if chained drivers will respond to the bluetooth remote controller from Ikea which controls the dimming?
Why doesn´t FL8-24W work?
Can you please remind me. - what is FL8-24W ?
From where is coming power!
You need a separate powersupply