Beginners wiring projects: LED banks

Step 2 Preparing the PC board

In this step we will be using the PC board, solder, soldering iron, LEDs, and needlenose pliers.

My PC board I got from RadioShack Had this nice little travel circuit that I used to wire one set of my LEDs, while on the other, I manually hooked up the LEDs with wire.

Place one color of the LEDs like you see in the first picture, making sure that you keep the positive (longer) side of the LEDs to one side.

The last LED shown in the sequence is wrong in these pictures, it should be soldered like the others, exactly the same.


Once you have the three LEDs wired in sequence, simply solder a red wire to the positive side, and a green one to the negative. Snip the excess leads on the installed LEDs and start working on the other three, soldering wires to each of the LED leads instead of using the built-in travel circuit.

Simply solder the connection wires to the ends of the LED leads, and secure to the board with bent pieces of solder.

Remember, when soldering, safety is always important.

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[cupnoodles2]

just for the next time u coul use the leads of the leds instead of using wire good ible btw