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    Help with t10 LED's for homemade underwater fish light :)

    wow, good stuff to learn guys, and i greatly appreciate the feedback you have given! I took a closer look at using the mineral oil and although it might work good, cost would keep me away from it. (would cost about 2$ in mineral oil to fill the mason jar vs 25cents in lead) Im going to do a...
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    Help with t10 LED's for homemade underwater fish light :)

    Wait are you saying i could fill the jar with either distilled water (which i have) or mineral oil? and still run the lights? wouldn't that cause them to short out? It currently is taking about 9 ounces of lead weight to hold these under water when they are all put together in the mason jar...
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    Help with t10 LED's for homemade underwater fish light :)

    Okay so completed the 1+ hour soak test while running and there was no real heat coming from the bulbs (they felt very very mildly warm i would guess they would have been somewhere around 85-90 degrees) so i guess that these are going to be good for some extended field testing session's soon :)...
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    Help with t10 LED's for homemade underwater fish light :)

    Here is the information on the bulbs from where i purchased them. T10 168 194 W5w White 28 SMD LED Wedge Light Bulb Lamp 12v Socket Type: T10 Voltage: DC 12V LED Quantity: 28pcs 3020 SMD LED Light Color: White Power: about 2W Color Temperature: 5000-6000K Lifespan: 50,000 Hours Lighting Angle...
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    Help with t10 LED's for homemade underwater fish light :)

    Also out of curiosity how would i go about wiring these in series if i wanted to go that route. I tried to do so at first and with every additional bulb i attached the lights became dimmer and dimmer until there was no light output at 4 bulbs. Again this would be running of a 12v car battery...
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    Help with t10 LED's for homemade underwater fish light :)

    Here are a couple of pictures showing where i am at now. It's still pretty rough around the edges but want to work out the bugs before it gets all the finishing touches. The second picture really does not do it justice, it's exceedingly bright (to the point of hurting your eyes is you...
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    Help with t10 LED's for homemade underwater fish light :)

    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...
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