{"id":1520,"date":"2011-12-15T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T02:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2013-01-18T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T02:08:16","slug":"soldering-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Soldering on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deep breath time, I still haven’t received the balance of LED strips so cannot complete the project today. I’ve devoted the time to cleaning up what is there. I decided to cannibalise two good strips to replace the sections of defective strips while I had the time. Also I thought I’d remove the clunky (but convenient!) joiners and replace them with some cut to size self soldered (nice looking) joins.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also thought I’d have a go at mounting and wiring the lantern while I had the time. Done, the height of the lantern doesn’t quite give me the look I was hoping for so I’m going to put some extra thought into that. I think it’s too tall proportionally speaking (a design feature of using a bollard light).<\/p>\n

Wiring wise, the Christmas LEDs have come up a treat. I’ve also worked out that there are 2 sets of LEDs to give various strobing effects coming from the controller. A small amount of tinkering & I discovered a way to wire up each side of the TARDIS separately so that the strobes will be coordinated.<\/p>\n