Can you reconnect strips in series 12+12=24V, then you can use boost dc-dc converter from your battery around 12V to stable 24V?
This arrangement will give you stable light that is not dimming during battery discharge. That's what I did with my emergency light - there is 6 strips with 3 LED each. I connected three of them in parallel (12V), connected other three in parallel(12V), and connected those 2 pairs in series which gives 24V. Then I bought this boost converter (about 3 USD) and it still works perfectly.
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Therefore, you cannot connect them directly but need a voltage regulator. Since you need 12V to run the LED strips, using a regulator will reduce the 14V battery voltage to 12V, making the LED strips safer. However, there is a problem. Whenever your car's battery voltage drops, the brightness of the LEDs may drop.
Can you reconnect strips in series 12+12=24V, then you can use boost dc-dc converter from your battery around 12V to stable 24V?
This arrangement will give you stable light that is not dimming during battery discharge. That's what I did with my emergency light - there is 6 strips with 3 LED each. I connected three of them in parallel (12V), connected other three in parallel(12V), and connected those 2 pairs in series which gives 24V. Then I bought this boost converter (about 3 USD) and it still works perfectly.
Answering your question: you can't use a 12v battery to power a 12v led strip directly. a fully charged lead acid will have 13.8v which will burn out your led strip if you are doing so. You don't need a current limited device. What you need is a voltage regulator. You need exactly 12v to run your led strip. I will suggest a buck dc-dc converter. you can buy one in ebay for $3; cheapest way to go is to use 3 diodes. 0.6x0.6x0.6=1.8. it will drop your 13.8v battery to 12. making it more safe to run your led strip, but the problem is when the battery voltage drops, so as your led brightness, and another problem for simple diodes is energy efficiency; 3 diodes will produce many heat and waste your battery life.
I'm looking to backlight a light box that will hang on a wall. Will be using some 12v LED strip lights. I'd like to run this off a rechargeable battery so it can hang without cables and/or a location without an outlet nearby. I'm not looking for hours and hours off battery life but a solid hour wouldn't hurt. This is just a personal project, it probably wouldn't see much regular use. So moving the box or occasionally running a cable to recharge doesn't bother me.
Would/could this be as simple as using something like this?
https://www.amazon.com/6800mAh-Rechargeable-Protable-Lithium-DC12680/dp/B074TC4XW4/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=12v+battery+pack+for+led+lights&qid=1684775364&sr=8-9.
If the barrel plugs happen to match up to a set of lights/controller I already have, cool. If not I have enough experience soldering to rig something up. Ideally I'll set it up using a wireless controller/remote that is common with LED strip lights. I've messed around with stuff like this before but it's always been wired directly.
If the battery makes this more complicated than I'm expecting, just let me know. Any simple (or complicated) advice would be appreciated.
Hello friends :)
Before I start please know that I don't know anything about power, volatge or amps, so apologies if some of these questions don't make complete sense :)
I'm thinking of adding some LED strips to a costume for a party that's coming up and needed some advice. I already played around with adding two Govee 5v strips to a costume and powering them with my 20100 mAh Anker battery and it's been working really well.
However, these 5v strips are pretty short (6ft each - assuming it's because the 5v battery can only power so much strip?) so I'm thinking of using a longer strip, but anything longer than 6ft seems to be 12v.
I found this DC 5V to DC 12V USB Voltage Step Up Converter Cable online that seems like could do the trick powering a 12v strip from my 5v battery, and was wondering the following:
Is this even a safe thing to do? Does that adapter look sketch? I'd be keeping the battery pack in my pocket, most likely.. could it overload or anything like that? I got that battery pack 4 years ago so it's starting to date a little.
How fast would this drain my battery pack when used? The battery pack outputs 4.8 amps and has two USB ports. The 12v light strip shows 18watts, but nothing in terms of amps.
If the above isn't the right way to go, I also found some 12v battery packs (this or this), but those are definitely bigger and a bit more expensive.
Any reason to believe this would be safer or more recommended than the above?
Now let's say I wanted to power two of those 12v strips.. could I use two 5v > 12V adapters on the 5v battery pack or is that really pushing it?
Any other advice on what to do or not to do?
Thanks!!
As the title says, I want to build a 12V led strip powered by a 18650 battery pack. I was thinking about a 1S6P, TP4056 as a "BMS", solar panel to charge it and a buck-bust converter to increase the voltage output.
But during my planning I thought, what would be better, 1S6P, 2S3P or 3S2P? I would appreciate any help with this and if anyone have any recommendations plis help.
Pd: the lights are going to be on my apartment balcony, so I'm planning to do this build as waterproof as I can.