How to make your own DIY Led Light System for Lego builds.

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[@benstoever]

Having these non-permanent connections really fits into the LEGO system, actually. I love designing and building things in LEGO also because you can improve and change things any time without having to discard pieces (as you would have to, e.g., when working with wood). Being able to do the same with the lighting system does totally make sense to me. I'm wondering how stable these wire connections are over time when the elements are moved around or the wires get into contact with dust, though. Would really be interesting in you sharing your experiences in the future on how durable the system is.

[@edwardlees4585]

The new road plates with their central holes are also perfect for narrow runways as you can easily install LED lamps below and put a clear coloured tile of your choice over the top.

[@WhiskeyShred]

Oh yeh cool!

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

Great idea Edward.

[@BrickfordCityFire]

DIY LED? Right in my wheel house! I recently started doing my own DIY soldering and programming of emergency vehicle lighting/strobe systems. It is a really fun addition to an already fun hobby! Great video!

[@neetaneeta6604]

I’m listening and learning, it’s look easy when you do it🥺.

[@neetaneeta6604]

@@BevinsBricksWorld Yes, she is absolutely right and thanks for reply😊

[@WhiskeyShred]

Oh man you’ve got Eddies secret weapon there! (Kind of, he used a variac voltage unit to crank the amp settings to 10 while keeping the voltage low to get that killer sound in a smaller room) EVH 🤟💥 Can’t wait to see the final runway!

[@bricksgt5382]

Great setup for your lighting of your airport runway. And will work Great also for other parts of your city. 👍

[@totofx]

Just started making my own light system to bring my little brick city alive. This video is really helpful for someone like me who don't know where to start. Thank you, everything is well explained!

[@EvansBrickhouse]

Thanks for this how to and showing how easy it is. Can’t tell you how excited I am to see your airport lite up.

[@ethancargill3159]

in my opinion i love animated features in a lego city because it really brings the city to life

[@csahynes]

Thank you for this info. Looking to figure out lighting for a city/amusement park and this is very helpful. Really like you how to vids.

[@alwheeler8302]

Yes, lights video series, thanks

[@Scotts_Blocks]

Wow Lego wire connecters. Very cool Daryl. It looks like knob and tube wiring in an attic

[@PaPasBricks]

This is cool, the run way will look awesome when done, can’t wait to see it

[@stephenphillips6456]

This looks great. A quick suggestion. Instead of alternating red and white, what about for each light using a red and clear cheese wedge back to back. If it works, you will get white when facing one way down the runway and red when facing the other way.

[@kevinwasyliw1574]

Definitely adds a lot to the runway.... awesome added touch

[@silverwhiteknight]

Great idea to make a lightning system!

[@alicakina1179]

The lightings are so good

[@dustylegobricks]

love this! tysm for all the info! had to watch a few times coz i was thinking about how i could use the 1x2 dbg plates for a ballast and how i wish i had the large lbg tiles lol!

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

I wish they would come back.out with the 8x16 tiles. Its one of my favorite parts.

[@johnathansawyer8736]

I swear it's almost like you're making knob and tube wiring method! Love it.

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

It's basically what I'm doing just on a smaller scale. I have sense redone everything though and now it's all soldered and uses plugs

[@johnathansawyer8736]

@@BevinsBricksWorld still bare wire? or is it available with a jacket?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

I use insulated now black and red so I know positive and negative.

[@johnathansawyer8736]

THIS is the vid I was looking for! Thanks for this!

[@God_Is_Good-8-7-24]

This is such a nice idea to lego builds.

[@BrooksBricks]

Oooh that's a great technique!! I may have to consider this too! Nice work Daryl! 👍👍

[@StonewallBricks]

Thanks for the info! I'll have to remember this setup when I get to lighting my city!

[@StillSaber]

Impressive, Most Impressive

[@paparancia5667]

WOW!, that was amazing!

[@BrickRevolution]

Very cool and super helpful! Couple of questions because I know nothing about electrical, what would happen if you put it to 5V without the resistor? How many lights can you hook up to one power supply?

[@lightingbug]

The LED probably wouldn't light up at the higher voltage or burn out very quickly. LEDs work in a specific range, so you put resistors inline to drop the voltage down to what the LEDS need. If you buy a ready made kit you usually don't have to worry about adding resistors.

[@Southwest737swa]

I do exactly that

[@dylanwhite3383]

Wow that's nice

[@johnvocatura1019]

Cool idea buddy.

[@TheRoadTaken]

Can you elaborate a little more on why you added the resistor? If you added more LED, wouldn't they bring down the resistance, too? Or did you add it in this video for the LEDs you had in place at the time of filming?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

When the lights are in parallel you need the resistor to decrease the voltage. But yes using the lights in series will cause the voltage drop without a resistor.

[@samuelhulme8347]

Brilliant

[@bdonaghu]

Your voice is sounding much better in this video!

[@garethsmith2250]

You can get the bricksmarx and Lightaling off AliExpress for a lot less than Amazon .. select AliExpress shipping..all my lights came to UK in like 7 to 10 days that way.

[@garethsmith2250]

@@BevinsBricksWorld make sure you pick the official shops they all have them plus you get raukten points if you go via them to the site..we get topcashback..same sort of thing

[@lawllaygoh]

This method makes wiring up and then lighting up the city a snap. If you need to swap a LED for a different color, disconnect from the bus and color change done. What size resistor did you have on the adapter end?

[@andrewtaylor940]

Hmmm? Now you're tempting me to get cost saving creative with the ton of pre resistored LED's I have around. One gizmo I discovered that might be interesting for your airport is Light My Bricks offers a "Rotating Sequence Effects Board" which seems almost tailor made for runway lighting effects. The LMB sets are expensive, but they make some effects and controller boards that no one else offers and they work with lower cost LED's as well. Anything using that same microconnector.

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

The only thing that could work for at a airport would be the beacon. I plan to get into programming and such soon myself also.

[@uldNdN70]

How about Space Craft and interior lighting of dashboards/instrument panels for the bridge, commander, navigator, captain, etc? I'm trying to scratch-build a pilot's cabin for my 12-inch astronaut figure. I've built 3 and had to tear them down and start over. I never thought to use Legos! Brilliant! All I have to do is find out what you meant by Mills when you were putting the panels on the runway (about 6m:10s). Thank you for any help :)

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

Yeah you can use my leds for a project like this. Mils is a way of building the baseplate here is a video to show how I do them for buildings. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eF6khGCEpseXapI

[@elmedin26]

Daryl reads my mind. Thank you for this video. I have a question, did you drilled holes in this yellow pieces on the side?

[@elmedin26]

@@BevinsBricksWorld Thank you. Looking forward for new content about this topic. 😁

[@andrew1977au]

Awesome

[@serggc]

LED need a resistor, otherwise they will burn up ! I would pair one resistor to every 3 leds in order to protect them ! look up Current Limiting and LED Calculators, for your given circutis led voltage, resitor values, etc.

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

You.are right and I now make and sell my own line of lights aall with the led installed

[@D_2_M]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@JakubSK]

Would be cooler with a batter pack.

[@diegolopez6148]

Thanks for the vídeo. One question, how do you managed to light the yellow piece? Is the led small enough to be inside lego pieces?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

With led and yes they are very small.

[@WittlessWonder]

This may be a dumb question but is it any risk having the loose copper wire on the base plate like you do there? Ty for any help. Edit: ops just realized its a 3 year old vid :p

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

Not unless you overload the wire :) I do not make and sell my own line of lighting products as well if you are interested.

[@TwistedSam]

Great video, do you also have a link for that USB plug you use ?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

Such an old video I'm honestly not sure

[@BaconDanish]

Nice setup. But Currently unavailable and unknown if and when the leds will be back in stock. 🥺😢🙈

[@efreimvillena7440]

Hi, this is very helpful! Thanks for sharing. Are the LEDs and copper wires safe for long term continuous use (e.g 8hrs straight)?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

Yes they are

[@joebennett7221]

I would have done chrismas lights

[@TrixTheDev]

I ordered smd leds last week to make my own lego lighting couse the brickstuff etc. They are so expensive and not worth the price. And then, you upload this video😅

[@TrixTheDev]

@@BevinsBricksWorld and experience)

[@TheBluenyt09]

Awzum! 😎👍💪💪

[@oliverdots]

So this lighting is in parallel and not series right? So the lights stay the same strength?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

Yes

[@xt3100]

any advice on how to find good lights for light bars for movable leg sets like lego technic cars?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

Check out blinky bricks or brickloot they both have some awesome products

[@thedriftingsamurai8476]

It feels wierd cementing on your video for some reason. I gues because I haven't watched you in a long minute, but it was a good video. Thanks bevins

[@thedriftingsamurai8476]

@@BevinsBricksWorld I guess you could say you were down with the sickness

[@Blackvenom011]

Do you have a amazon link for that capacitor? ( edit: resistors)

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

No capacitors are used, do you mean the resistors ? This is the linknfor them. amzn.to/45JLvqs

[@Blackvenom011]

@@BevinsBricksWorld oops, resistor yea! I got thinking a bit more about something I dont really god knowledge off but does the copper coil get hot enough to ''melt'' the lego ( even a bit?) And .. the leds, if you put the cables between plates, does it get ''cut'' since if you can strip em with your finger nails, i assume lego can do the same?

[@vhamly]

Hey Darrell, I just got into Arduino and will be using that to power my stoplights and such. I just received my first Brick Loot round flat 1x1 plate lights and they way that they are wired doesn't thrill me. How did you get the little LED's to stay/connect to your LEGO bricks in this video?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

I purchase and make my own leds for my traffic lights. I use 0402 leds and place them between the plates

[@vhamly]

@@BevinsBricksWorld How do you get the LED bulb to stay inside the red, yellow, green trans plate?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

The plates hold it in place

[@CHGOfficial512]

Sadly both, power supply and LED-s are out of stock, is there any alternatives?

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

My preffered power supply I use now is amzn.to/3PDieVz And the led are amzn.to/3vlKrbn

[@CHGOfficial512]

@@BevinsBricksWorld Thank you

[@janetlutter9925]

Are you ok wheres all the live feeds