LED lighting using a wall socket

[Davinder Sangha]

I'm currently creating a model using 3V LED lights. At the moment, I wire them up to a 1.5 amp regulated power supply. What I really want to do is hook the wire up to a normal plug and then use a wall socket.


I'm not 100% clued up on electronics, but one of my plans was to buy a 3V power supply adaptor from eBay and then join the wires. Any suggestions before I blow something up?

 

[Deleted member 3568]

You need to know what the forward voltage of your Leds, there is a free led array calculator on the net I've not used it for a while but give me a minuet and I'll find it

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Here it is, it's easy using this


http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Oh and welcome to the friendliest forum on the 

 

[takeslousyphotos]

Hi Davinder. Welcome to the forum.


Cheers


Peter