The Comprehensive Newbie Guide to LEDs in Miniatures Terrain
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Bored of scavenging tea lights for your DIY Warhammer and Dungeons and Dragons terrain? Time to graduate to custom LED circuit design and construction. This video is intended for absolute beginners with zero electronics experience.
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I am an electromechanical engineer and I was a professor at the University for 25 years, of course I know what you taught in this video. But it is the clearest, most direct, useful, enjoyable teaching I have ever seen. I congratulate you, because it will be of great value to many and an example of how to make a teaching video
Thank you kindly
@@WylochsArmory Somebody said that only Americans are born camera-ready. (And at least one Canadian, of course.)
I knew nothing about installation of LEDs before I watched this. I donʼt see how the material could be explained better.
Bill Wy the Science Guy... Bill Bill Bill :) Great vid
@@WylochsArmory I have looked into doing custom LEDs for stuff, even got it working with a bit of luck. (I have a master in computer science and wired/programmed custom circuits for stuff like Cloth touch pads) this is the first time I actually understood exactly what was going on and I've been through quite a few tutorials. Really great presentation !
As an electrician and hobbyist, I approve of this video. Good show.
Thank you kindly
Understood more in 14 minutes than I did over entire units on electricity back in high school. Thank you for this.
Thank you for actually explaining this. Most videos on this subject are basically just adverts for products. This is what UA-cam should be.
This has been the clearest, more directed and amazing electrical tutorial I have seen! This simple concept always makes my brain wrap into knots and I constantly have to relearn it. (Never learned resistors before). So my goodness! Thank you. You're a fantastic teacher! Both in regards to the information presented but also in providing a low stress alternative with the resistor test towards the end. I'm adding a breadboard to my cart as we speak thanks to this. (Also don't worry. I still want to get to know how to KNOW what I'm doing and not just doing it. So I'm excited to start understanding and using the spec sheets with my LEDS for more immediate control too)
Oh man thank you for this no nonsense demo. I've been so confused.
Thank you! I used to put together Radio Shack kits in my youth, but since I'm not an engineer, I forget a lot of what I learned then. Easy to understand, great explanation.
Dude...thank you so much for the class! This is awesome! Must have video. No more wasteful led light strips or annoying tealights. Saved to my terrain crafting folder!!
Thank you for the solid state electronics class refresher
Late to the party, but just in case anyone is confused about "I" being used for current, and then immediately being denoted in "A" or "mA" - "I" is the way of denoting electrical current, which comes from the French word for "Intensity" ("intensité").
Typically, "I" is used in mathematics where we're just talking about the concept of electrical current, but when we actually measure, we use the SI unit "A" for "Amperes" or "Amps"; This can be modified like "kA" to show kiloamp (1,000Amps) or "mA" to show milliamp (0.001 amps). Consider that when we talk about the "Speed" of something, we might use "S" in an equation, but "mph" or "m/s" to measure it.
Great video Wyloch, I'm so happy you're back, and producing frankly - amazing quality content.
Keep it up man. ♥
This was the best teaching video I've ever seen for electronics basics
First of all, awesome teaser, got me really excited about upcoming build. Secondly and most importantly, the guide is great. I was avoiding the led lighting in my own builds for ages (lying to myself that it is not that great feature anyway) but now I feel empowered to try. Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you for going into some basic theory, not just "do this, it's cool!" More crafters are doing this sort of work, it's great to have resources on it from you, as well.
Best teaching video i have ever seen.Love Your knowlage and peace in Your voice.Im a car mechanic and start learning electronics few months ago.Even my english its not so good i inderstood everything You say.Love it.Btw diorama looks great.Hope will finde more videoas from You about electronics.Cheers from Poland.🥂
Best video on this subject I have seen! Thank you!
Thank you for providing a straightforward, clear presentation on not only using LEDs, but the basics behind them. I need to watch this a few more times just to take notes.
An Excellent Video making for much easier working out of lighting. Many thanks for producing and posting this video.
Thank you. I knew jack about this stuff. Now I’m scratching the surface. Woohoo!
Well, it's the first time I followed avideo about electronics and stayed to the end AND understood everything, you're good man ^^
Thank you for making this video simple. I have seen many videos either on You Tube or during my days in class watching those almost broken film shows before videos. They were hard to follow with heavy formulas. Or the film broke. At least class was over because off that
I have been watching your videos since I found your first dungeon tile videos. While your crafting techniques and video style has evolved what you have kept and what always keeps me coming back is how systematic, clear and thorough you are. Excited to see the finished cyberpunk build!
A superb presentation - both myself and my 10 year old son were mesmerised and inspired! We are now thinking of wiring up a Landraider tank based on this!!!! Thanks!!!!
Great video Wyloch! I just got done with a bunch of LED work too and I've learned you can never have too many! Cheers
I just decided to make the leap into using led's and I can not express enough gratitude for you tutorial. It was easy to understand even for someone as thick as me.
Love the videos, new and old.
This one is GOLDEN.
Great stuff! Gave me some serious shake-and-bake USAF electrical engineering flashbacks ;-)
The Aircraft Electrician in me is delighted by this explanation. Simple, easy to understand, and useful to anyone trying to build circuits. Also, the basic explanation of the theory helps so a basic hobbyist can build further upon what you've shown. Amazing work, and thank you.
I have started using LEDs in my builds. This video made me a lot more comfortable doing so. Nice job!
This video is fantastic. I rarely work with electronics so I have to review all this material every time. This video is a great refresher that covers all the important material quickly.
This is probably THE most helpful video on LEDs that I have ever watched. Seriously, thank you.
The best electrical circuit primer I have ever watched. Well done sir!
I appreciate the video! Been watching quite a few LED videos over the past day. Yours was very helpful!
As a robotics major in a DC/ac circuit course with a husband that love miniatures I love this video!!!! Thank you for the clear explanation!!!
I'm almost immediately reminded that I want to disassemble a vacuum cleaner for bits..
There's treasure troves in them things.
Scratch Bashing doing what Scratch Bashing does best
Thank you! You are so great at communicating this!
Great Video, learn a lot about foreword voltage and usage of the right resistor. Thanks
Dang! I've definitely been illuminated. Will have to refer back to this video when I use more than one LED.
Fantastic video. A+ presentation and delivery!
This is the best demonstration I've seen on this topic. Even though I'm already familiar with everything taught - except the tip about the chritmas light LEDs - I watched the whole thing through, instant subscribe.
Excellent quality video presented in an easily understandable manner. Clear and concise. I would suggest that since the soldering technique portion of the video is glossed over slightly, that a link to another video specifically dedicated to soldering be included. Since we are dealing with components that generally are not sensitive to heat, many first-time solder-ers may still apply solder incorrectly (causing bad connections), or apply heat too long (causing melted wires/fried components) and both these errors can easily create shorts or open circuits.
I just love your videos! Gets my brain going and starts my own terrain creativity!
Oh man, when I unpack my Christmas decorations this year I may have to sacrifice a strand to the gods of crafting!
Thank you for giving such nice definitions of terms before launching into the explanation! This video is definitely staying on my reference list.
The best time to get Christmas lights is the days after Christmas, in my experience. Also, if you end up with a few broken LEDs you can sometimes swap them in from a sacrificial strand, which can also be picked apart for hobbying...
Thank you so much for this... I've been wanting to get into LED lighting my diecast creations... and have been struggling to find a concise yet complete tutorial... this was perfect!
AWESOME! I've always been raised in the wise mindset of "It'll shock you to hell and back so don't mess with it" so seeing a really nice, concise video explaining the basics is really encouraging to see. Will definitely use this video later in my projects!
Right back to physics class :) Thanks for the flashback, and cool video. BTW... this would have been a great video to collab on for my video tomorrow.
I speak English at an intermediate level, even this text I write with the help of a translator. But you explain everything so clearly and pleasantly that the language barrier did not stand in the way of understanding. Although you forgot about capacitors. Thanks for the video!
God so much better explanation then the AC/DC books I have read.
I've had a project in mind and this helps a lot
Yeah! Notification gang! Looks interesting, always wanted an updated version to your old tutorial!
Also, just saw the cyberpunk terrain, looks awesome!
That's the best tutorial on LED wiring that I have ever seen.
Dammit! I came for fun and ended up learning stuff! Perfect timing for my crafting as I'm diving into LEDs now. Also, I did still have fun! Great vid!
greatest video in all youtube explaining this... awesome!!
Thank you. *This is the most approachable explanation I've seen.* Way too many beginner arduino or lighting tutorials jump ahead to the end projects or assume a preexisting level of knowledge.
Problem glossed over in those not so entry level tutorials is way too many of us never learn any electrical schematic information. Too many of us never got that 4th level algebra since lots of districts pushed it off as a middle or high school level math, making it optional after 9th grade. My school was small so we never had math beyond algebra 1 because there were not enough students taught core math beyond basics to even begin to understand higher levels required to enter many STEM fields, and we were the smarter school in the region (focused on chemistry, biology, politics). This creates a barrier that can be embarrassing to even admit we have. US school systems suck as a rule, especially in rural and red areas.
Thanks for a video on this that is basic and makes sense. Best one I have seen on it for a non electrician.
So many things make sense now, especially the batterylife diffrence between lights ive had
Thanks for the fantastic overview!
Excellent stuff. Thanks Wyloch
What a great video. It was clear and concise. You've got a great voice for this kind of work; enough warmth to keep things interesting.
this was so well done and clearly explained. thank you
Excellent video, I'm an electrical apprentice and warhammerer and I approve of this message.
This is a great guide, thanks! I recently put a LED eye in an Ork Deff Dread and people love it on the table.
Brilliantly explained. Thank you for this video!
THANK YOU so much for this video, after watching numerous videos that just left me confused and feeling like a fool , yours was the first that was truly clear and easy for me to understand
I used to work at Digi-Key! Literally all of it ships out of a single facility in rural Minnesota that employs like half the town, lol.
Love the shirt!!! Also great clip for the video! Love that meme! Looking forward to catching up on your videos!
I haven't played with breadboards, resisters, and LED's since 1998. Collage/Tech School was about the last time I used a Soldering Iron.
I am actually wanting to work in a cyberpunk board for opr and infinity. Really looking forward to your tutorial.
Thank you for this! Exactly what I was looking for.
A year back I payed almost $100 for a vendor LED lighting mail order kit for a model build because I couldn't get my head around all of this. After watching your video I am laughing at how wasteful that was because this is so darn simple, it has just NEVER been explained to me so darn simply. You have my unending gratitude for this, not least for giving me the relief of knowing that I can, in fact, understand this!
So helpful thank you. This made it so much easier to understand.
Dude! This may be the perfect video. We'll done. You've made something I've struggled to get my head round for ages make perfect sense. 👏👏
Thanks for this video. I had an intro to circuits in college and remember enjoying it, but not nearly as much as when professor Wyloch teaches it.
Thanks for the refresher on on basic electronics, been a minute since I have designed any circuits. But had to draw out Ohms Triangle to figure out stuff on my daughter's beginner's electronics kit.
This was so easy to understand!!! THANK YOU.
I’m a little late to the party here but - this is just about the best video I’ve seen on this subject. Thank you much for your clear and easy to follow info!
very clever use of simple lighting and electrical!
Great introductory tutorial! Better than I got in either my electronic tech classes, or my engineering classes!
Thanks so much for this. I’ve been looking for a simple electronics project for me and my son. Building some tabletop terrain and adding some lights is a perfect place to start. This guide explains things so much better than I could - thanks again!
Thanks! I just put some pre-wired (with resistors) blinking LED's in my cart on Monday. This makes me feel a little more comfortable doing this.
It's weird how I knew most of this and still feel like I learned something! Well done!
I am just starting to work in more complex LED's (more complex then tea lights) and I was super unsure how to go about this, thank you so much for this video it cleared up a lot of questions I had, this is the prefect style for a beginner like myself.
Thank you. I've been looking for a video like this.
This was so helpful. I'm just getting into model building, customizing, and dioramas. I've been wanting to get more into lighting now, but had nonidea where to start. This was amazing ❤
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Did electronics for years in the Navy working on Sonar systems. Wish you had taught the Basic Electronics course.
this has helped me greatly i was thinking on how to start using leds for my projects and didnt know how to go about wiring them and this video has helped me thank you
An amazing tutorial and now I'm interested in adding lights to some sort of crystal terrain.
Oh man, I’m so sick of using tealights. Saved this to my ‘game changing info videos’ playlist XD. Thank you so much for this.
Thank you!!! I'm only just starting with working on LED lighting in dioramas...and this was SUPER useful!!!
This is a great video. I had learned all this stuff about 5 years ago but never used it. This was very easy to pay attention to and I enjoyed that very much. Thank you
Thank you so much for this! I’ve been apprehensive about graduating from tea lights, but with your help from this video I think it’s time!
Yes you can add batteries in series/parallel... BUT they have to be the same type (lead-acid, LiPo, NiMh, etc) or same like AA/AAA/C/D etc and also the same voltage! So don't mix them and even tho you have a 6V lead-acid and a 12V lead-acid, don't combine them. The result is that they exchange an internal currant from 1 battery to the other and will destroy the battery/cause fire... Don't mix non-rechargeble AA with rechargeble AA (1.5V vs 1.2V)
Also putting LEDs in series will work with lesser amps, thus resulting in longer battery life, but if 1 LED dies, the circuit is open and ALL light will go out. If in parallel an LED dies, the rest will still burn.
Yes the long leg of the LED is the +, but what if they bent and broke off? A few things you can see to determine what + and - is on a LED. All + is: longest leg, smallest anode inside bulb, round side of the bulb. All the - is: shortest leg, biggest cathode, flat side. I'm Dutch so we used KNAP to remember it (Kathode Negative, Anode Positive) --> Knap is the Dutch word for handsome 😉
NEVER put a LED to a power source without a resistor!!! The LED is an Diode so it will be like short circuiting the voltage source with a wire... (but because the internal resistance of CR2032, and not capable of delivering high currents, in this case it's "OK" to do this test... Don't do that with say a 6V lead-acid battery or you will burn the legs of the LED in your flesh... I know...
This was perfect resurrection of my grade 5 physics classes!
Wow. My physics teacher, lovely as he was, could have used this as a 'how to teach basic electronics' lesson. What a superb video - and one I shall use and return to regularly, until the basic rules have properly sunk in. Thank you SO MUCH!
Awesome, took a class on computer architecture in college that went over all this but haven't actually used it in years, now I kinda wanna get into using arduinos in terrain.
as an electric engeenier i wish that you were my circuits teacher on the university, easy and at the point thats the way to teach that
Great job with this video! Makes a ton of sense and it will be a great resource for me when working on projects. I also hope people outside of the hobby take the time to watch this one. It explains everything really well. Cheers.
Thank you, for this excellent, concise extremely helpful video.
I teach Physics middle and high schoolers, this was a great explanation.
Thank you mate I was struggling with this nice and simple 👍