What does a fuse do and why would you want to use them? Back to article index Fuses serve the purpose of little protection devices that will limit current (cut off) when something goes wrong. In a very basic form, if your device should only draw a maximum of 2A and it suddenly tries to […]
Merged PCBs Merged PCBs used to be a thing I offered but since PCBway can combine multiple orders to share shipping I have discontinued this option!
Waterproof LED strips Back to article index When buying LED strips you are often confronted with the question if you want IP20, IP65 or even IP67 LED strip. These values stand for different levels of water and dust proofing. Let’s take a look at when you such use which variant. IP20 (indoor) The IP20 rating […]
LEDs need cooling Back to article index LEDs (in whatever form) convert electricity into light. The revolutionary thing about them is that they are a much more efficient light source then all lights that came before it. Sadly, they still aren’t 100% efficient in converting energy to light. During the conversion, energy is lost and […]
Wire thickness needed 2023 update! Back to article index When hooking up LED strip or string it can be hard to figure out what kind of wires you need to use. For each of my Analog dimmer or Digital controller boards I have diagram which wires to connect where, but what wire size you need […]