RapidLED Build

[probe dms]

I just received my 24 led plug and play kit from rapidled. Besides the heat sink being bent during shipping, I found the directions to be about 70 percent helpful. The problem i'm having is placement of the leds on the heatsink I have, which holds the 24 leds perfectly but it has no space for the terminal board. I couldn't seem to find a way for place the leds on the board in a blue white pattern that would alllow for me to run the blues and white on their own driver. I had to set it up all blue then all white and all blue then all white. The result is some big blue ares and big white areas. Any ideas on how to do this without soldering?

 

[noelskii]

you'd have to extend the wires i guess. maybe they have a plug and play wire extension? you don't really have much customization choices with the plug and play. you'd have to get the regular kits and cut your wires to the length to the next LED.

 

[smoq]

They have wire extensions on their site http://www.rapidled.com/servlet/the-231/LED-Extension-Wire-(3.5")/Detail

 

[noelskii]

They have wire extensions on their site http://www.rapidled.com/servlet/the-231/LED-Extension-Wire-(3.5")/Detail

perfect!

 

[probe dms]

hmm. i guess i may have to break out the soldering iron soon.. oh boy. so much for plug and play.

 

[ming]

Instead of breaking out the soldering iron, why not just splice the existing red and black wires and extend them with some wire from radio shack? This way, you'll still be able to use the quick connect/disconnect if needed which is handy if you ever need to replace an LED or two. Also, with the quick connect/disconnect, it would seem it greatly reduces the chance of shorting the LED's to the heatsink which happens when you solder LED's and the solder goes a little over the side of the LED to ground into the heatsink.
Just my 2 cents