I need these in a square(making a LARGE light box), I know I can cut them. But there are 4 connections 12v, G, R, B. Do I solder to each of these?
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If you want all the colors you have to connect all wires end to end. If you just want red for example you can hook up the 12v and the red . You can find four conductor wire with the colors on the wire already. Also when soldering, just because you see the copper contact doesn't mean there isn't a clear film over the top of the contact. If your solder isn't bonding try scraping lightly the surface of the contact. You don't want to go all th way through. You can also use rubbing alcohol to clean the surface afteR scraping. Best if luck. Prob not enough lumans for a grow light btw
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Wire nuts should be all you need. Soldering is a better connection, but don't solder them right at the board. You may cause damage to the board or cause the preattached wires to become loose at the board.
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Hi M. Bell. The ones I received had screw and push in connections, no solder required. Traditionally you would have a black wire and white wire, black being the "hot" wire and white being the neutral. There are directions & diagrams with the dimmer. Hope that helps - Larry.
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Yes, Make sure your panels have the male and female connectors attached with enough wire length. Your 4 male connectors from each of the panels connect to the 4 females of the "Y" branch and the 4 female connectors from each of the panels connect to the 4 males of the "Y" branch. The outcome will be one male and one female connector left to terminate to your circuit. Take note of your "+" and "-" polarity.
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You can cut the strips at certain contact points( I think it was every 3 LEDs). From there you can either solder on fresh wires or use premade connectors to the contact points,(+) and (-). It's not complicated at all and easily done.
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yes they will work on the 4 wire RGB, only 2 wires are needed for the white only but connectors will work. the connectors are a bit^%%$ to work with and I have yet to get a solid connection Im gonna try soldering them
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If I understand your question correctly, you want to cut the lights, separate them and then join them back with wire, making the total length longer. If this is what you want to do then the answer is yes. Make sure you cut where the white line is on the led strips and then strip plastic to expose the wire and solder your additional wire to the led wire. The lights will need a 12 volt power supply and I also added a dimmer to control how much light. They are very bright.
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I bought two sets of 3 light each with adapters, extended length of adapters by cutting in half and soldering various length wire between each half to desired length and connected all six. make sure not to cross connect wires. all working without any problem.
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On the ones I ordered, I wanted the connector on one end and just the end of the wire on the other. I used 10 guage Malibu Light wire to make a longer lead, should I need to move the Solar Panel out more. I soldered the wires together with shrink wrap on them. It worked out well for me. Good quality leads.
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you should be able to use three. two panels on two connectors and then connect those connectors to a third one. Much like the branches of a tree.
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There are a few options. Manually solder them together, use "strip to strip connector" (also called "any angle turn connector), or "connector box".
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These are 12v lights so you should only have 2 wires you can connect to. It does not matter which color you connect to which wire, as long as it is only 12v.
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There should be no problem doing that. You should tin the wires, solder, to prevent them from unraveling.
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They can be cut every 3 leds which is about every inch and a half, and can be connected to the controller from the length you selected from there. You will just have to solder wires to the strip and connect it to the controller.
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If you are not interested in purchasing and soldering on a 4 pin male connector, then one option is to cut the wire to the lights with the male connector. Cut the wire between the male connector and the LED lights at approximately the half way point. Pull apart the four different color wires so that you can strip about a quarter inch of insulation from each wire. Do the same to the "extension" cable. Connect the male connector to one end and connect the other end of the cable to the LED lights. Be sure to connect like colors to each other (black to black, green to green, red to red and blue to blue). Use wire nuts or heat shrink insulators to protect the wires from touching each other. If you are not interested in purchasing and soldering on a 4 pin male connector, then one option is to cut the wire to the lights with the male connector. Cut the wire between the male connector and the LED lights at approximately the half way point. Pull apart the four different color wires so that you can strip about a quarter inch of insulation from each wire. Do the same to the "extension" cable. Connect the male connector to one end and connect the other end of the cable to the LED lights. Be sure to connect like colors to each other (black to black, green to green, red to... » Read More If you are not interested in purchasing and soldering on a 4 pin male connector, then one option is to cut the wire to the lights with the male connector. Cut the wire between the male connector and the LED lights at approximately the half way point. Pull apart the four different color wires so that you can strip about a quarter inch of insulation from each wire. Do the same to the "extension" cable. Connect the male connector to one end and connect the other end of the cable to the LED lights. Be sure to connect like colors to each other (black to black, green to green, red to red and blue to blue). Use wire nuts or heat shrink insulators to protect the wires from touching each other. « Show Less
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Yes, and No. You can wire them up in a string, but if you're thinking of just connecting one to the next, that won't work. You can run only 3 of these in series using a current limiting resistor with a 12 V supply. What you can do is run several of these 3 LED strings, sort of one after another, but the wiring would be a bit trickier than just daisy chaining them. You may have noticed that some Christmas light strings have 3 or 4 wires in the string and they are achieving something similar to what I am describing. I don't know how to attach diagrams to this response, so I can't send you a schematic. Ledcalc.com is a good resource for figuring out the current limiting resistor value. It will even show you a basic schematic, which would need to be modified to get the string layout you want. The amount of time these would run depends on the capacity of the battery (which you didn't state), but generally they would run somewhere between many hours and several days continuously. Due to the rather narrow beam pattern of super bright LEDs you will probably be disappointed in the effect. For a decorative effect, you'd really want LEDs with a much wider beam pattern. Christmas light strings that run on 12V DC are sold and might have the lighting effect you desire without all that messy learning about Electronics, Mathematics, and soldering, It would be a plug and play solution, therefore quicker and easier for you. Perform a Google search for 12VDC Christmas lights. Interestingly, the first hit is for a set sold right here on Amazon.
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I would assume the connectors that come attached to each light could be cut off and the light's wire hard wired to the line wire, but I used the lights' connectors that pressed into the line wire and every light has worked great for almost a year now.