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DIY: How to add a GI circuit switch to an LED backbox

By lyonsden

9 years ago


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    #50 6 years ago
     
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    You can make this much more easy

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    Put in front a bridge rectifier and connect the input of the rectifier to your GI circuit. The rectifier will make it more or less DC and the step up converter will make it 12VDC required to drive the led strips.

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    #56 5 years ago
     
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    Am using at the moment ledstrips which operate on USB 5VDC and not the 12VDC version. These strips I hook up direct via a bridge rectifier to the GI. No more relays required. That simple.

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    #58 5 years ago
     
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    Am using for the backbox single color. Yep, all my pins have led in the Go so I have extra power budget but am guessing that a GI circuit being AC has space to for something like this.

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