Building your own ambient color lighting bars

Step 4 Soldering the resistors to the wire and then to the stripboard

I found it was easier to solder the wire to the resistor, then solder the resistors in.

Strip the ribbon cable, leaving one of the wires with more shielding for your common anode, since this will run directly into the board instead of through a resistor. Solder the resistors in the correct order and cover with tape or heatshrink. It does not matter which way the resistors go.

Next solder the entire set to the stripboard. I did the anode first, followed by the resistors. The resistors are easier to do if you bend them at an angle first before putting in, then you can fold the leg down onto the stripboard and just solder it in.

Congratulations, you just finished one! I'd recommend testing each one immediately to make sure you haven't soldered any LED's in backwards ;)

Comments

[dr.shah]

hi am totally new to this stuff!!! bt i have always want to do this so i bought this item at ebay 250423131219! can u tell me how should i fix the resistors to the leds because the leds got only 2 legs??!!! i cant understand how to do the soldering process here!!! PLZ HELP! thnks in adv