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Title: what wire for LED strip
Post by: danbo81 on August 23, 2011, 05:17:05 PM

Hey guys just a quick question what wire do you use for led strip lights i have a big roll of car speaker wire can i use it just wanna run a couple with aligator clips to a battery just a bit of light up the beach when i go fishing 2 strips bout meter long

 thanks guys

Title: Re: what wire for LED strip
Post by: koshari on August 23, 2011, 05:24:51 PM

iam sure your speaker wire will be fine, those LED srips wouldnt pull 3amps tops.

Title: Re: what wire for LED strip
Post by: Jon on August 23, 2011, 05:26:27 PM

LED's use bugger all power, but trying to push that through small wire is ok for short distance.

As an example, my LED's are 60cm units wired with 0.5mm figure 8 speaker wire, The leads are 6 metres long and work fine.
However I have not tried thicker wire so this may give more light, not sure.

Title: Re: what wire for LED strip
Post by: Bobcar on August 23, 2011, 05:33:10 PM

Volts, amps, resistance (lights and wire size) are all related, the larger the lights the more amps the less volts.
When we talk LEDs they are very very low amps so we can run smaller wire and still have right amount of volts at the end.
Just measure the volts at the battery and the volts at the light and if same, you've got it right.

Title: Re: what wire for LED strip
Post by: Symon on August 24, 2011, 01:21:36 AM

Speaker wire should be fine.