How To Use LEDs In A Custom Build - The Easy Way

I wanted to show how I use LEDs in my custom builds. This is a super easy how to video on using the LED from a tea light and incorporating into your custom build. I hope this is helpful to you in your next awesome creation!
I hope you enjoy this easy How To video!
Thanks for visiting DR Toys, and as always...
"It's a great day to be a toy nerd!"

[@adamunknown]

best sodering lesson ever right?

[@paulaneary7877]

I watched half this video this morning, just now finishing it this eventing. Thank you AGAIN, I am so excited to go try and do some lighting in my bulds! YAY!

[@DRToysCreations]

AWESOME!!! Have fun!😀

[@johnkelley9877]

This was extremely helpful and it is a tutorial I will reference again in the future. You make the process very clear and easily understandable and your results speak for themselves. I hope you will do more tutorials like this in the future. Thank you for sharing this information.

[@DRToysCreations]

You're very welcome! Glad it was helpful.

[@Sarges_Toybox]

Thank you so much! Such a great demonstration.

[@DRToysCreations]

Sure thing! Happy to help.

[@ericrylands2860]

Thank you! You are the best at explaining things to us that are new to this hobby!

[@DRToysCreations]

Happy to help!

[@maskedmarvel7869]

Thank you for the video. The dollar tree has a string of led lights for 1.25 that I’m using for a build and I was able to use it with no modifications. Just placed electrical tape on one of the bulbs I didn’t need. In the Halloween section.

[@DRToysCreations]

Awesome! Thanks for watching!

[@paulaneary7877]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! I have been through the same thing where I feel like I have NO idea what they are talking about, like it is Quantum Physics or something and I am thinking, "It only has like 2 wires, how hard could it be?" Plus, often the crafters have done it so many times that they explain it really fast, AND often I can't see what they are doing bc there hands are kind of in the way. GREAT JOB on this video, I am sure it will help a lot of people!

[@DRToysCreations]

Thanks so much... That totally why I made it. All the other videos made me feel like a total dummy! 😂 Glad it was helpful!

[@MrCros1970]

Absolutely appreciate your work, best explanation video i have seen, thank you so much.

[@DRToysCreations]

Glad it was helpful!

[@brett70115]

Great video Dave. Super helpful. Thanks!

[@DRToysCreations]

Glad it was helpful!

[@th2306]

Thanks dude! And thanks for keeping the tinning mistake in. Seeing problems solved in realtime like that is so helpful.

[@DRToysCreations]

Sure thing. I like to leave mistakes In because I’m sure I not the only one make the same mistakes.😅 Thanks

[@garzilla7123]

Great tutorial, my friend.

[@DRToysCreations]

Thank you! And thanks for always being so supportive, I really appreciate that!

[@garzilla7123]

​@@DRToysCreations Always a pleasure my friend, just keep putting out the cool stuff and ideas and I will be more than happy to watch and comment. Rock On!!!

[@BattleBornFLB]

Thank you! That was extremely helpful!

[@DRToysCreations]

You're welcome! Glad to help.

[@jodezero]

Wow! I think I solder after all. Thanks so much

[@DRToysCreations]

You’re welcome 😊

[@WylochsArmory]

ILL-YUMINASHUUUUUUUUUNNNN!!

[@DRToysCreations]

😂

[@Britondemand]

Thank You. This was so useful.

[@DRToysCreations]

Awesome, glad to hear!

[@jimi1701a]

This is a great video, I have been struggling with leds for a while, thank u for this. 👍

[@DRToysCreations]

Glad it helped

[@thotparnassus2617]

Very helpful ❤

[@goatintuxedo2206]

i use the same candles for my built but i don't change anything. they can last for 300 hours so no need to ever change the battery unless you keep it lit all the time. love your customs btw. great idea with the guitar cord and rubber tubes for adding details.

[@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy]

I did a diorama about 10 years ago and uses a battery that is used for small solar panels, it hadn't been changed ever since, at least that is what the owner told me. But I do believe him, if the item is preserved in good conditions then it can last decades. Same as how I have a 1st generation PlayStation that only needed it's 1st laser replacement 20 years later while some people complained about theirs maybe 5-10 years later. I keep the motors and plastic rails lubed every 3 years or so and they are all still fine. I seen consoles that were basically caked in dust cigarette residue it's basically like someone took dirt mixed with some toxic motoroil and rubbed glued everything all over it's insides ... took forever to clean them and put them back in working order so as it needed replacements. Point of the story again depends how people preserve their things and how smart they are with their custom builds-mods too.

[@Miguelangel6784]

Great video dude 👍🏽 been looking for ages for a video like this.

[@DRToysCreations]

Awesome, happy to share!

[@craftymoss]

Thanks for the tutorial ! It's gonna be really helpful. I was kinda scared to add LEDs to my project but you made it a tiny bit less scary ^^

[@DRToysCreations]

Awesome, glad to share!

[@iscogblackscale5777]

That does look easy. Time to find a okish sodering iron.

[@talaferrosingleton6965]

Jut bought some tea lights. From the Dollar tree yesterday.

[@DRToysCreations]

Did it have the soldered switch or was it like the one I got at the Dollar Tree?

[@msx80]

Perhaps you can even reuse the trasparent "flame" in a build, looks like an interesting shape!

[@DRToysCreations]

I love that idea!!!

[@thechillsergeant]

Thanks!

[@DRToysCreations]

🥹thanks!❤️

[@JessyWilliamson]

Thank you!!!

[@DRToysCreations]

You're welcome!

[@JessyWilliamson]

@@DRToysCreations Any chance you have an Amazon or eBay link to tea lights with those components? Last two I bought are like to Dollar Tree ones....

[@Iskelderon]

Gotta admit, I often use tea lights and the LED strips from the dollar store just because I'm a laza bastard and I get a battery pack, switch and lights all in an easily re-solderable package. A short while ago, my store even started carrying standard 5V LED strips with a battery case, the ones you'd usually buy on a spool.

[@DRToysCreations]

So the tea light at my Dollar Tree have been redesigned and it like a plastic slide that pushes the wire to make the connection. I’m turn there’s nothing to solder to so I can’t use them.🥲

[@expansionestelar]

muchas gracias!!!!!

[@DRToysCreations]

Sure thing!

[@Jay-ql4gp]

It's been awhile since I've been to Hobby Lobby, but if you have their app you can get 40% off a single item when you're there. I didn't know about tinning, thank you!

[@DRToysCreations]

Yeah, unfortunately our Hobby Lobby quite the 40% off program.😢

[@Crimsomreaf5555]

i really want to get my sanctuary three model let us and painted and these tea lights would be perfect for the back of the engines, how would you go about doing multiple lights in a daisychain fashion.

[@DRToysCreations]

Great question, I haven’t really done more than one light. 🤔

[@TheTBolt]

Cool Good to know the Dollar Twenty-Five tree lights are not too usable.

[@DRToysCreations]

😅 yeah, is that now false advertising…?🤔

[@natalee8713]

Great video. Do the colors around the wires mean anything (like red positive) once you take them out of the cable, or only when you apply them to something? Thank you.

[@DRToysCreations]

As far as I know in this case no. there are same wires that will have a wire thats a little thicker but I think that means it can carry a higher load. In my case the wires were the same size and I just used the color to know what went where. I think... 😂

[@OutlandStation]

Yeah, copper wire is copper wire. I personally *suggest* staying with the red-pos/black-neg scheme in case you get help from someone who does electrical tinkering, but otherwise color of the coating is irrelevant. Especially on something this simple and direct.

[@urushi-art]

💡

[@MrVidal96impalass]

Do you have any 1984 marvel secret wars figures? If so could you demonstrate how to repaint them? I won't to try but don't know how

[@DRToysCreations]

Unfortunately I don't. I'll keep my eyes out for them. Thanks.

[@jmchocolaz5420]

😮😮😮

[@OutlandStation]

One of the "advanced" aspects is, if you salvage the metal shims that contact the battery, you can create a battery holder in places that are otherwise too small for the base of the tea-light.

[@DRToysCreations]

That a great point! Thanks.

[@platonicbuu7454]

Lol I saw the gundam piece and said to myself "I can always spot a gundam piece.... lol... I'm so full of sh.." then you said "gundam piece " and I said "HA! I KNEW IT!!" Also, I thought all those lights were built the same. I've eonly tried dollar tree ones. Lol. Now I know they're junk

[@DRToysCreations]

😂

[@paulie6446]

Led chips is the way to go..those diodes are useless 👍

[@darthbuzz1]

Thank you Dave. I too hear gobbldeegook when electronics is explained and my first 2 LED attempts didn't work well. You make it look and sound very easy.

[@DRToysCreations]

Awesome, glad I can help!