BEHIND THE SCREAMS: DIY LED Mini Spotlight
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Just a quick proof of concept video for DIY style LED mini spotlight using RCA/phono connectors. The RCA/phono connectors allow for a quick color swap when needed and help to keep connections compact and low profile.
The final version of this setup will use speaker wire, rather than in individual red and black spool wire.
Additionally, the cost to make each mini spotlight is about $1.00 and to make a set of 8 spotlights and the power supply to run them comes it at just around $15.
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MATERIALS:
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3.25" piece of 1/2" CPVC pipe (found near hot water heater section in your local Home Depot/Lowes)
#10-24x3/4" machine screw
#10-24 washers
#10 lock washer
#10-24 wing nut
1"x1/2" corner brace
pre-wired 10mm LED - Lighthouseleds.com
male RCA connector - amzn.to/3Bhh2zW
female RCA connector - amzn.to/3l1RvFm
Jack Box (no longer available - Here's a substitution: amzn.to/3ux51nA)
Credit to haunttheyard.blogspot.com, toykeeperslair.com, and Nepboard and Hallowennie315 (of Halloweenforum.com) for their own designs that helped get me to this point.
Instagram: @vanoaksprops
#halloween #prop #tutorial #led
This has to be one of the most popular Halloween tutorial videos on the Internet. When this first came out it blew my mind, you keep making wonderful upgrades to the system and I appreciate you sharing, it’s genius.
999
1 - 3.25" piece of hot water PVC pipe
1 - #10-24x3/4" machine screw
2 - #10-24 washers
1 - #10 lock washer
1 - #10-24 wing nut
1 - 1"x1/2" corner brace
1 - 10mm LED
1 - male RCA
1 - female RCA
Thank you!
Ah yes, the video that introduced me to VanOaksProps!!! I used this video and your "ghostlight" STLs to print LED housings for my whole haunt! 999
I was able to find almost all of my parts in bulk, which really helped bring the cost down.
you know I am glad I found your channel. Its crazy I never saw it before. I can see this video was posted in 2013. I hope to learn some technique for when I make some more of my props.
Welcome aboard!
For this build, I just went to Radio Shack and Frys, since I just wanted to buy enough parts to make sure it worked. Now that I know it does, I've found everything in bulk, either on ebay or at Home Depot/Lowes. I figured you'd like the background!
Perfect, just what I need for the Falcon wall pad lights!
Excellent!
Dude awesome Idea! Wholly hell so simple hellz yeah. Thanks for sharing
I am loving this idea. Thanks for sharing!
I love your series of videos!!! Thank you so much!
999
You should make a business selling these, people like me would totally use something like this
Great video! Can't wait for the meeting to make one.
The terminal was store bought. I found them at Radio Shack. Look for "jack box". As for the power supply, it's a 12v 5a regulated power supply. I got it from Monsterguts, but I'm sure you can find them at other places as well.
Very awesome! Love it, Great job stream lining that set up. Once one takes the time to make this its makes for a very fast speedy set up each year. Where do you purchase all your components from? Love your background! LOL!
Would you be able to show a video on how you built this? This is pretty fantastic!!!
I'll see what I can do. Thanks for checking it out.
Nice idea. Quick
Nicely done.
I keep using barrel connectors for my stuff because I have lots of them ready to be salvaged from my world of electronics. But now that I'm no longer mucking about with those particulars, I need a new source of cheap plugs. it never dawned on me to use RCA plugs. Got a bunch of those lying around too.
Yeah, that's the boat I was in when I started down this path. Many years later, they still work like a charm, although I'm considering switching to waterproof connectors since rust will eventually make the plugs unusable.
what a great idea thanks for sharing !!
Man I like that! Thanks!!
Plus, we're talking low voltage, so there's no issue of overheating, etc.
This is amazing and exactly what I've been looking for to use on a project I have in mind.
Do you have any videos detailing the power supply for something like this?
I am a newb and the electricity part is what i don't know, and im nervous enough that its keeping from getting projects done.
I don’t currently, but the way I do mine is to take a few male rca cables, snip off one end and expose the wires, and then join the positive wires together and the negative wires together before inserting them into a female 12v plug adapter (like this one: www.amazon.com/dp/B015OCV5Y8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_aCAKFbHEQ4W3W) and then you can connect it to your 12v 9a power supply.
i think 99% of us have RCA plugs laying around.. great idea.. where did ya get the LEDS??
Nicely done as far as youmwent, but I need to know what kind of LED is bast for a micro spotlight.
This build used a 10mm LED, there are also 5mm and 3mm depending on how micro you need to go.
I am fairly new to your channel but I have to say you have a LOT of great content. I am loving this project with the mini LED spots. My biggest problem is locating a Jack Box. Did you ever find another source for them since Radio Shack is no longer? Thanks again for all the great projects and ideas!!!!!
I haven't, but I have found that the jack box, in the end, is over engineered. You can take a few RCA cables, snap off one end and join the ends to your power supply with a female 12v adapter. I'm going to be making another lighting related video soon and I'll show you how I'm doing it now. Thanks for subscribing!
@@VanOaksProps Looking forward to it. I will be making some PVC candles with flickering LEDs so I am hoping that they can be powered with some of the LED mini spots!
I LOVE this. I set up mini spot lights a couple years back but set up took hours to spice and tape each one. This is so much easier. question... I can see scrap audio cable from a thrift store being usable but what do you use for longer lengths (8' and over)?
I use speaker wire. Although you can buy super long rca cables from places like Monoprice for dirt cheap.
Thanks cool dminor. Nice video...subbed ya
awsome im gonna write this down because in the future i wanna do mini led lights so this is great and how did you make the terminal and what power supply did you use?
This is awsome. What parts did you use besides the pipe and the washers
I am so new to wiring, so I was hoping for some help:
A single power supply is run and connects to a single RCA port which powers the jack box (just a collection of couplers all wired together). Is this correct? If so, how is the power supply connected? Is the jack box wired directly into the supply? Does the power supply connect to the rca cable with an adapter?
I’ve seen the v3 with the eagle eye lights, and plan to use those, but was coming back here hoping for some clarification.
In my first version it was wired directly to the rca jack. In my second version I added an rca connector to the power supply. Either will work.
damn D...Very cool =)
I know you used hot water pvc pipe about 3.25 inches long but what thickness or size pipe looks very small.
Great point. It's 1/2" CPVC pipe.
How is the panel of RCA female plugs wired/connected to power supply? Thanks!
There's a few ways you could do it, but in this example I just clipped off the plug from the power supply and wired the leads directly to the first terminal in the RCA block. If you wanted to keep the original plug on the power supply, you could add a female connector that matches your power supply and then connect that to your RCA terminals with a bit of wire.
I'm a beginner. Can you be more specific on the major materials (i.e. jack box specifically). I googled jack box and don't see one that looks like the one you used. Can you tell me the Brand, model or something?
All the specifics are listed in the video description. The jack boxes may be hard to find, since Radio Shack stopped selling them.
I just check and I have some left over, since I purchased as many as I could when Radio Shack went out of business. If you're interested, I'd be happy to sell them to you at cost. Just send me a message and we can figure out the specifics.
VanOaksPropFoundry since found on eBay. Had more trouble finding RCA 8 plug insert. Thx tho. Costing more than anticipated so scrapped that project.
Love to buy one from you?
what gauge wired did you use for this project? fantastic tutorial!
+C North I think it was 16 or 18.
Dminorsound thanks much cheers
How many volts ur battery to feed all leds? Did u use resistors?
12v 5a power supply lights up all the small LED lights in our display.
eBay. Just look for 10mm pre-wired LED
Haha, let them have a stroke. I'm not asking them to subscribe to my ideas and concepts. The fact of the matter is, no one other than me will have access to it, so I don't see it being an issue. Plus, if you want to plug your audio device into my system without my knowledge of it, then you get what you had coming to you! hahaha
Radio Shack
999
Nice work, I like the idea for the connectors. If anyone is interested in a smaller version I used a 5mm LED and brass tube, here toykeeperslair.com/PDF/LEDSpotlights.pdf
they can be seen in action here at 0:48 to 1:04
haunt pics 2006
Tried to go to your website and a different page comes up.