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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: berserkfan on Fri, 06 March 2015, 22:43:33
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What am I supposed to do with this?
I bought it thinking it only needed to be hooked up to power supply. But now I’m looking at the parts, and I don’t understand what to do. OK, I do have a DC12v somewhere. But what else am I supposed to do? Being not electrically trained I don’t instinctively know that to connect to what.
(http://i.imgur.com/YY5xsEg.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/yZP86Lm.jpg)
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If its anything like the one I have sitting around the headers in the bag should be a double sided male ones. Using a 1x4 header join the LED strip to the control module. On mine there is a tiny arrow that is for pin 1 which is ground on the strip, so that side connects to the black side of the LED strip.
and a picture because most times it helps better:
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Thank you. I finally figured out that both plugs were female that's why I couldn't connect them. I am currently using them with LED legs. You know when you cut off the led legs, there's a bit of metal that fits both female plugs. It's a silly solution but works.