Halloween LED Jellyfish Costume

Step 5 Wiring it

I now pulled all the batteries out the rope lights, and used a naked solid wire to go through all the negative terminals of the lights. I soldered it to each terminal, then hot-glued it in place so it wouldn't go anywhere. I then repeated the process for the positive terminal. Remember to glue it all in place so it won't go anywhere - if the 2 wires touch, it shorts everything out.

bascally, you are wiring all the rope lights together in paralell.

Comments

[maheesa]

For wiring the positive terminal, do you solder to the spring?

[deadinsect]

I did, yeah

[ckdkjunk]

This is awesome. I will be adding these LED lights to my son's rocket ship costume. If I wire as instructed...will all the LED strands flash at the same time and in the same pattern or will they be flashing out of sync with each other, as they would if I just turned them all on independently? Thanks for your post. Excellent!

[deadinsect]

when you switch them all on together, they start all in sync for a few seconds, then get slowly out of sync due to variations in each strand...! if you were a stickler for wanting them to "wave" in sync you could build a timing circuit that turned the power on and off about once a second.... either way it looks cool....! enjoy

[miaou]

is the "connect all the LEDs together" step necessary, or could you just put batteries in each of the individual light strands?

[deadinsect]

you can do that. the strands all come with batteries. Each one lasts about one night - 6 hours?

[miaou]

Thanks to you, I now have a costume idea for a halloween party I'm organizing :D Do you have any other less helmety options for the basin? Like some kind of hat that ties around the head. Or do you think it would weigh too much if there was no helmet?