Fast, Quick, Cheap, Good looking LED room lighting (for anyone)

Step 2 Cable up the room

Quick and easy you need to run 2 cables and make sure you dont cross them over at any point or itll get messy

Seen in the picture is what your cableing should look like all the way around the room (or where ever you want the LEDs)

Comments

[giggidy2692]

do you just plug one end of the wire into a wall outlet or what? that confuses me

[Thenwcp]

You would end up with LED bits all over the place if you did that, they probably just used a power supply. you can get away with one of those cheap Dynex computer power supplies all the voltages are labeled you just have to splice the "turn on" wire with a negative wire (the turn on wire is usually green or gray, and negative aka Common as always is black) there are instructables on how to vary the voltages in your power supply, but doing a basic set up use the manual to find out which voltages go with which wires because there's a 3V a 12V (red and the yellow usually) and there's a way to set up 24V but for this you really don't need the 24V set up haha. alternatively you could spend 30 or 40 dollars on a DC power supply at radioshack. If you want to go super ghetto fab just cut the ends off of a cell phone charger (which I'm sure by now most people have extra lying around from old phones) you can get a good 3-6 V depending on the charger.

[DecemberUndergrownd]

wait could you describe the cell phone charger thing a bit more?

[Thenwcp]

A cell phone charger is just a step down AC to DC converter, basically your just cutting off the phone plug and using the output of the phone charger

[runwithscissors17]

What kind of cable could you use? Like an extension cord?

[drbill]

that would work