theWoodWhisperer
- Oct 20, 2022
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Hey there! I am an avid Wood Carver/Sculpture, but a mostly a novice when it comes to LED lighting tech. I'm hoping to get some advice on how to simply add LED's with a color changing remote, but hopefully without a bulky control unit to try and hide (hopefully at an inexpensive price as well).
I had an idea to start making bowls out of old and partially decayed pieces of logs and filling the voids with resin. I decided I wanted to kick them up a notch and add some internal led up-lighting that would be built into the base. I found some cheap chip LED's that change the brightness with the built-in controller, but they only change between warm and cool white light. So to get a color, I have to either color the resin or use a transparent paint like I did on my prototypes.
Not even knowing how many watts I'd need, I used a 10 watt I found on Aliexpress.com and I used a 3" diameter aluminum disc to both mount it, as well as act as a heat-sink. At full brightness, with both the cool and warm LED's on, it reaches about 150 degrees F. up inside the space. The effect is pretty cool, but I'd really like to be able to change the color to whatever I'm in the mood for. Your advice would be GREATLY appreciated!
Here's a link to what I used: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256...tewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US
I had an idea to start making bowls out of old and partially decayed pieces of logs and filling the voids with resin. I decided I wanted to kick them up a notch and add some internal led up-lighting that would be built into the base. I found some cheap chip LED's that change the brightness with the built-in controller, but they only change between warm and cool white light. So to get a color, I have to either color the resin or use a transparent paint like I did on my prototypes.
Not even knowing how many watts I'd need, I used a 10 watt I found on Aliexpress.com and I used a 3" diameter aluminum disc to both mount it, as well as act as a heat-sink. At full brightness, with both the cool and warm LED's on, it reaches about 150 degrees F. up inside the space. The effect is pretty cool, but I'd really like to be able to change the color to whatever I'm in the mood for. Your advice would be GREATLY appreciated!
Here's a link to what I used: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256...tewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US