Hello,
New here and am looking for some help on how to best wire some T10 wedge LED's.
Basically I am looking to wire between 5-10 T10 wedge LED bulbs, where each bulb has 28 individual LED's on it. After wiring these together i will be putting them into a watertight glass jar and submerging them 1-4 feet in fresh water in order to attract baitfish (and therefore bigger fish) at night. These will be running of a 12v boat battery for 3-5 hours at a time for occasional use.
I have been playing around with 5 of the bulbs and have soldered them together in parallel. To do this I basically determined which wire on the wedge was the positive one and then soldered those together and soldered the negatives all together, ran 12v power to those points and voila "let there be much light".
I intend to add in a in-line fuse holder on the hot line with a small automotive type fuse as well. The lights work fine and are all at maximum brightness.
However, I am a complete nublet when it comes to this stuff so i have no idea if wiring them in this fashion is the correct way to do it!!!
I'm not terribly concerned if this will cause the LED bulbs too burn out a little more quickly than normal, but wouldn't want them burning out after 10 hours of use either.
To be honest i am not experienced in this area... so any discussion of ohm's laws, and theorys of relative resistance/conductivity etc are going to be wasted on me.
If i need to change my setup (and or add to it) please give it to me in as simple (dumbed down) version as you can
Thanks so much in advance for any assistance you experts can render.
New here and am looking for some help on how to best wire some T10 wedge LED's.
Basically I am looking to wire between 5-10 T10 wedge LED bulbs, where each bulb has 28 individual LED's on it. After wiring these together i will be putting them into a watertight glass jar and submerging them 1-4 feet in fresh water in order to attract baitfish (and therefore bigger fish) at night. These will be running of a 12v boat battery for 3-5 hours at a time for occasional use.
I have been playing around with 5 of the bulbs and have soldered them together in parallel. To do this I basically determined which wire on the wedge was the positive one and then soldered those together and soldered the negatives all together, ran 12v power to those points and voila "let there be much light".
I intend to add in a in-line fuse holder on the hot line with a small automotive type fuse as well. The lights work fine and are all at maximum brightness.
However, I am a complete nublet when it comes to this stuff so i have no idea if wiring them in this fashion is the correct way to do it!!!
I'm not terribly concerned if this will cause the LED bulbs too burn out a little more quickly than normal, but wouldn't want them burning out after 10 hours of use either.
To be honest i am not experienced in this area... so any discussion of ohm's laws, and theorys of relative resistance/conductivity etc are going to be wasted on me.
If i need to change my setup (and or add to it) please give it to me in as simple (dumbed down) version as you can
Thanks so much in advance for any assistance you experts can render.
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