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Stairway LED lighting with IR trip sensor

Step 6IR lights

Build the IR LEDs just like the light LEDs. Solder the leads of each IR LED to an extra piece of wire (excess from your LED string, or just 2 conductor wire of any sort) and wrap the leads in electrical tape. Make this wire long enough to run from your main cable to the mounting point. Connect the resistor side of the wire to ground and the positive side to +5v.

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