I'm thinking of building a simple LED mood light that is dimmable with four leds for our living room. My wife really likes the violet/pink color that displays when mixing red and royal blue so was thinking of a circle of 2 reds and 2 blue leds on top of a simple psu with dimmer. Trying to make it look like a simple, clean finished unit that we can just plug into an outlet. Anyone try this before? We have various different colored led pucks but the colors do not pop at all when compared to a XT-E or XP-E2.
This is what happens when I mix the two colors together and she is looking for that sort of effect on the walls. Right now I just stand up my two flashlights for a couple of hours each night on 50% and they last a couple of days before re-charging but it would be nice to have a plugin instead.
Have you tried those? I do have two different remote colored rgb lights and they really suck when it comes to color choice and vibrancy. I also have some color adjustable lamps and they still look quite dull compared to the Cree's.
Wellp, the season’s coming up, and Philips will be having their LED Christmas lights out soon (shiny blue boxes). Lotta color mixes, but some all-one-color, including violet.
Try ’em. Just ax someone at the store to plug ’em in.
Got some of those season lights but the ones here have colored glass instead of colored leds. Maybe I'll be the first one here to make one, already looking at a few compact power supplies.
Ok, will have a look if I can see anyone of those around then. A little surprised I'm the only one that thought of making my own colored lights though. I still think they would be way more vibrant than what is being sold everywhere.
Plenty of solutions, I’m sure, but you gotta specify how much store-bought you want, vs how much you’re willing to diy.
Otherwise, it’s solution, shoot-down, solution, shoot-down, solution, shoot-down, and that’s annoying. Same like when someone posts “Where can I get a xyz?”, yet gives no info about where they are, either in the location field or even in the post.
’Cause you can get 1 each of red and blue that you like, wire ’em up, then tweak resistors or whatnot to get the color-balance you want (red vs blue) and overall brightness. Or strings of each if you want even brighter than 1+1.
Well that's where I'm at now. I have a DC power supply with digital readout for testing and was going to run 2x2 with resistors and see how that goes. If it gives us the effect we're looking for, then I can build a heat sink with psu and refine it to look like it came from the factory. FV is different for each color so I need to wire them in parallel with different resistors between the two I think. Will figure it out soon enough as Winter's coming and I have time on my hands. Might go all out and add a couple more colors to make it worthwhile. If I can make it work and look really nice, I know about 8-10 friends that would want me to build one for them too. It seems that whatever I make, they want to have it too!
Looks like a beast lol. I have a couple of different remote colored lights but my biggest beef with them are the subdued colors, that's why I want to go for some solid leds like the XT-E etc and wire them together. With clear lens they give a nice effect on our white walls. I'll post the completed version here in this thread whenever I get around to it and hope it doesn't look like something out of star wars as I have a habit sometimes of making stuff way more complicated than they need to be.
I have a few different rgb disc lights. Disks are about 2" in diameter and you can choose the colors by remote. They weren't cheap at the time but they really are subpar. The two lamps I have that change color are these ones and they are much better but still not anywhere near the crispness of the the xt-e's. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01AXXXV36/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
