- October 1st, 2018, 9:55 pm#4909541
I want to replace the green LEDS with white ones that are a little bit brighter.
TragicManner wrote:So you ask in the title if LED strips would work in the trap, but then you ask if you can swap out the green LEDs with white ones.Sorry I re-read it. It is a little confusing. I want to replace the two green LED's with brighter white ones. (Preferably LED's strips)
So, first off, I have no idea on LED strips.
As for white LEDs, it depends on the specs of the LED. MOST LEDs around 5 mm take upwards of 20 mA of current, as far as I can tell.
There are a couple of very important details with the SH Trap, though! First and foremost, the two green LEDs run in parallel. That means both get the same voltage, but split the current. In the SH Trap, we have about 3.0 v (2x 1.5 v AA batteries), and the two green LEDs run in series with a single 6.8 ohm resistor.
As far as I can tell doing multimeter testing and crunching some numbers, the forward voltage on the green LEDs is around 2.8 v, which is pretty standard for an LED, and just so happens to be around the correct forward voltage to, with a 6.8 ohm resistor on the line, drop the current down to 30 mA.
So, since we split the current between the two LEDs, they both get about 15 mA. Which is less than 20 mA and acceptable for running an LED (though not the brightest).
So, if you get a new LED to replace the green LEDs, it needs to be:
5 mm in size
Have a forward voltage of around 2.8 v (usually forward voltage is a range)
Be capable of running @ 20 mA
I could be wrong, I'm still really new with fiddling with electronics, but it's about in the ballpark.
jreverhart wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2018, 11:36 am I did this, I bought a cheap LED lantern at Walmart and took it apart and spliced the wires from the LEDs in the lantern and secured them to the inside of the trap., seems to be working, it at least hasn't caught on fire yet lol but I figured since it takes the same batteries it should be fine..Do you mind showing what you did??
Just be careful as the Spirit traps are pretty cheaply built. and the wires are suspect, I plan on rewiring it at some point.
jreverhart wrote:Just be careful as the Spirit traps are pretty cheaply built. and the wires are suspect, I plan on rewiring it at some point.This is very, very true. And the more I work with the trap, the more I'm realizing it's the case.
tb-1599 wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2018, 7:42 pmI didn't take photos of the process, basically all I did was hot glue the LEDs from the lantern to the bottom floor of the trap, cut the LEDs that came with it out, and twisted the wires heat shrinked them, and taped them down with electrical tape nothing really fancy and if you look in the trap without power it looks pretty shotty loljreverhart wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2018, 11:36 am I did this, I bought a cheap LED lantern at Walmart and took it apart and spliced the wires from the LEDs in the lantern and secured them to the inside of the trap., seems to be working, it at least hasn't caught on fire yet lol but I figured since it takes the same batteries it should be fine..Do you mind showing what you did??
Just be careful as the Spirit traps are pretty cheaply built. and the wires are suspect, I plan on rewiring it at some point.
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