MINIATURE WIRING: How to light your Diorama, everything you need to start!

[@dannywiley4072]

In parallel the voltage stays the same but amp hour increases. So add more battery’s in parallel it adds the amount of time it will last. Capacity isn’t exactly how I’d describe a battery. The voltage and amp hour of a battery is what the battery is made up of ( material) and the surface area of the battery. Capacity to me would be a capacitor. A capacitor and a battery are 2 different things. Another thing, when stripping wires you don’t go 2 gauges on the strippers. You went to small and damaged the wire. On that note!!! This is a great video! Just has some wrong information. Keep to the basics yes but the proper basics. I know it is just some little leds for some miniatures But, why not at least do it correctly.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Thanks for the pointers

[@dannywiley4072]

@stizelswik3694 you’re welcome. In reading what I wrote I said about a battery and a capacitor aren’t the same thing. They both store voltage but how they use it different. A capacitor releases the voltage right away. It is like a jump start, a jolt of voltage right away. A battery does it slowly in order to get power to run something for a period of time. Simplest way I can put it.

[@JERRYR708]

Professor, I learned more about wiring in this 30 minute video than my whole life. I'm ready to finally add lights to my shelf layout. Thanks.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Well thanks!

[@Akiko-31]

Ditto lol

[@doris777dog]

At last!!! Someone explaining LED wiring in clear English!! Thank you!!

[@OilersWorkshop]

You are welcome!

[@bbondsie2]

Thank you, electricity Wizard. I can't say how much this was EXACTLY what I needed as a complete electricity newb.

[@OilersWorkshop]

😄

[@just_sterf]

omg same thank you so much

[@codkiller6820]

This is by far the most straight forward guide for simple lighting

[@OilersWorkshop]

I love you too....😆

[@wraith1701]

“Sokath, his eyes uncovered!" 😲😮😃 THANK YOU for creating and posting this! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽❗️😃

[@OilersWorkshop]

Darmok and jalad at tanagra baby!

[@dodgydioramas]

Planning to add lights for the first time in my next but one diorama and I knew nothing about model lighting so this has proved immensely valuable thank you.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Hey you’re welcome! Should be a good starting point

[@DaleLadDaz]

this is THE single best vid for an absolute beginner like me I have found...many thanks good sir. In the first 30 seconds you answered a question I have had for ages about parallel circuits and it just carried on from there...ty sir...subbed

[@OilersWorkshop]

Glad it helped!

[@Badgerinthenight]

I have watched so many videos on how to do this and this is by far the most clear explanation. I have so far watched 13 minutes without completely zoning out, which is a record for me. Thank you

[@OilersWorkshop]

Lol you’re welcome! I feel ya

[@Cheburashka_420]

How many videos ive watched and just you drawing it and using a simple layman explanation made everything make sooooooooo much sense. Instant subscribe. Thank you so so so so so much.

[@OilersWorkshop]

You're very welcome!

[@CyntMcMa-vr5yy]

This is the best video for newbies on how LED lighting works. I went through countless videos that were way too complicated and I almost gave up... until I found this gem!!

[@OilersWorkshop]

That’s why I made it!

[@CyntMcMa-vr5yy]

@@OilersWorkshop thank you SO much. Your instructions and explanations were detailed enough to provide an understandable logic flow at the same time simplifying the process so that it was manageable to a lay person. Appreciate your thoughtfulness.

[@rossknowles5608]

definitely one of the clearest no-nonsense explanations i've seen on this topic. excellent stuff.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Thank you

[@someofmyfavoritethings6787]

You are, undoubtedly, the best at explaining this particular topic. I can say that because by now I have watched countless of these videos on KZbin; and I have always wired in parallel. You take the award. Thank you!! Subscribed, of course!

[@OilersWorkshop]

You rock thank you!

[@tavilopi8677]

@@OilersWorkshop yeah man that was pretty entertaining as well!

[@baljazz]

This is all I asked for. For someone to talk to me stupid so I can feel confident and understand. Thank you.

[@OilersWorkshop]

😆 mee too my friend

[@franciscomagalhaes7457]

Dude, this was *exactly* what I've been looking for. I was getting ready to resort to reddit for a way to plan this stuff out without having to do calculations. What a wonderful little tutorial, thanks a bunch!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Yes! Make something amazing!

[@annjohnston3510]

With this video I think I may succeed lighting my street lights in my Xmas village!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Neat!

[@vickylavender8401]

Thank you ! That was the best easiest video I've watched so far on how to wire these little lights.

[@hideakiiwayainnoxitocsr4119]

This is GOLD! found this explanation to be the most comprehensive I've encountered in my existance about simple electronics. It's incredibly fulfilling, very helpful information. You're admirable. Keep it up! and for that, You earn my sub man!!🎉

[@OilersWorkshop]

Wow, thanks!

[@elysianfields84]

Man, you distilled this in such a clear and accessible way. Very charming and fun video to watch too. Never felt like you were wasting my time. I feel enlightened and I really want to start messing with arduino/electronics 🥴

[@elysianfields84]

Wondering if you could help me with something @Oilers. I'm wanting to hook up a 12v govee programmable strip similar to the last example you showed. I'd like a setup where I could change the colors/patterns from a control mounted onto the diorama, and hook up to both a battery setup and dedicated wall outlet. Like I could use battery if I take it to a show or something, but just leave it plugged in when I'm at home etc. This is one of those things where I 'don't know what I don't know', but I feel astronomically more informed after watching your video. Thanks again !

[@OilersWorkshop]

Awesome

[@OilersWorkshop]

As long at the output voltage/amps on your power adapter/converter you’re plugging into the wall does not exceed the battery add up or voltage rate of your LEDs your good, like if you use all 12v LEDs just make sure you don’t hook up more than 8AA batteries and you use a wall plug(adapter/converter) that sends output max of 12volts, you should be ok as long as the amps are low(typically they will be especially if you order all the pieces from the same place)

[@karinulery3491]

You are amazing! Every question that has ever confused me about electricity, in this 30 minute video you have made it make sense. You are a god.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Great to hear!

[@nicolemitchell446]

You’re a champ! So easy to understand. This was exactly what I wanted to know.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Thanks

[@jakemeyer8188]

I've been doing hobbyist electronics for years and already understand the concepts laid forth in this vid, but this is a perfect example of why it's always a good idea to go back over concepts you "already know" from other knowledgeable creators. You never know what you may learn, and I learned some great tips from this video, all presented by an excellent teacher! So, thank you! I'll definitely recommend this video to others!

[@OilersWorkshop]

YOU ARE AWESOME thank you for this comment

[@galaxyfarrahway]

You have excellent teaching skills. Explained perfectly so that even a technical dummy like me can get it

[@OilersWorkshop]

Thank you, I’m a dummy too

[@hearhisvoice4155]

Easily one of the most helpful and informative videos I’ve watched on this subject.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Thank you! I’m so glad!!!!!!!! 😄

[@goblinad1]

This was easy to understand, detailed enough to get me going, and covered just the right amount of information that i needed! thank you so much, great video!

[@OilersWorkshop]

You are welcome!

[@alexandrerobert6542]

Can't wait to try this on a diorama! This is one of the best and easy to understand tutorial i have watched ,thank you 🙏

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome

[@one-step-further]

@@OilersWorkshop absolutely perfect. Thank you kindly.

[@dennishicks4608]

This was the most easiest understanding of diorama led lighting and so helpful. Thank you for this great video..

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome

[@kevinward261]

I have searched for explainations for a while now. This is by far the simplest and easiest to follow and understand. Thank you

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome

[@Morgan-yl3ou]

The best teaching mini lighting systems .... Exactly what I wanted ... My polymer sculptures need lighting up.... Love all the links to materials as well. ..an absolute must for me. Oh well done mate. Top one 😄👍

[@OilersWorkshop]

Thank you

[@DarKKlusteR]

Even though this video is a year old at the time of making this comment. It's helped me actually figure out what type of battery I need to light up my LEDs! I recently got 3 different LED packs(Red, Blue, and White) for a Starship Model Kit 1:1000 scale. At first I thought a 9V would be enough and ended up blowing 3 of my LEDs. Assumed I had to do some complicated thing with capacitor's or something. Now with the information of knowing all I need is a 3V battery. I was able to turn on my LEDs! Thank you so much for this little bit of information. I now plan to continue my model kit and hopefully get it to a good lighting that I like!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Awesome!

[@tomaaron6187]

Thanks. I found this perfect level of instruction for my level of projects. I dropped by the thrift store and dollar store and picked up my supplies for next to nothing…repurpose existing ‘stuff’ like battery holders, switches, motion sensors, wire etc for Hallowe’en, Christmas. Fun to take apart various low voltage gizmos.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Absolutely perfect

[@TechChucker]

Exactly the tutorial I been looking for. I'm finally getting started with using lights on my dio projects now. Using the strip LED lights which was the easiest to get started but I wanna use those 3v ones next to get a little more control.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Great! I have made all the mistakes and this seems to be the simplest way to get a job done that can be versatile and also the most efficient, just takes time to run all the wires

[@juanlopez3624]

Thank you I’m not an electrician at all, can say I’m a gardener but you explained it well and understood well. I leaned from you today.👍

[@OilersWorkshop]

Cool

[@christopherbolin9768]

So I have watched so many tutorials on wiring leds for many different purposes, I finally find the most informative and easy to understand video I have ever found and it's for dioramas, who would have guessed. Great content man I am already a huge fan of your style, subscribed.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Awesome, thank you! My Brain likes to absorb tons of information and then reorganize it into the most efficient and useful tidbits, hence this video, Im glad it worked

[@megamanmedia]

Thank you! This tutorial was incredibly easy to follow, informative and has encouraged me to add lights to my dioramas.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Awesome! I’m so glad it helped you!

[@iwishiwereaghost]

Thank you so much for this, i know this is an older video, but since i've been following you and making Dios, i've learned soooo much from you and your techniques i have been so hesitant to add lighted signs to my dio

[@OilersWorkshop]

You are so welcome!

[@Akiko-31]

I agree with everyone here on the lesson you have taught and I have learned lol.... No more countlessly unneeded battery packs of lights lol , thank you thank you !!

[@OilersWorkshop]

😊

[@janegrimshaw9627]

Probably the best lesson in simple lighting I've ever seen!! Brilliant my friend! Love the humour too, keeps it fun. Spectacular dioramas here I come!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Awesome! Thank you you’re welcome

[@mikaelyalov571]

Thanks for the very coherent and noob-friendly explanation! Was overthinking it as well, with ugly wiring and unnecessary resistors. But the idea of two "feed" wires and a parallel circuit is so elegant, I love it! Works like a charm. Even added a "joule thief" to convert a single 1.5v AAAA battery to a 3v output (my model footprint is very limited...), and it still works :)

[@OilersWorkshop]

Cool!

[@Sunflowerby-Kiki]

I watched other videos but didnt understand anything :') now I feel like big brain, thank you so much

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome welcome big brain

[@jameshetherington1]

This is fantastic, I think I already sort of knew a lot of this but I completely lacked the confidence to ever put that knowledge into practice - this feels like a solid grounding to develop

[@OilersWorkshop]

Rock on!

[@starverweij2346]

Thank you for explaining in comprehensive English. I've watched so many video's and only got more confused 😂 I now have more confidence to at least try, I would like to learn to make miniature lighting.

[@OilersWorkshop]

I’m with you 100%, that’s why I made this video

[@joemarksagarbarria1749]

Awesome tutorial! I'm now an LED genius because of you. Thanks!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Glad I could help!

[@warrencann3824]

I had no idea how to start wiring my new project - now I do! So useful! Thanks heaps for making this!

[@OilersWorkshop]

You are welcome

[@sleepyscustoms7247]

This is so cool! I have been so educated after watching this video! I'll be using this tutorial for my diorama wiring when I get to them!!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Amazing! So glad it helped

[@markwilliamson4006]

Thanks for this well-explained, well-illustrated video on wiring LEDs. Just what I was looking for to help me get started on some lighting projects I have in mind. I also appreciate your emphasis on the old KISS engineering principle. If more designers kept this in mind, for just about any sort of project really, they could avoid a lot of problems caused by making things over complicated!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Hey! You’re welcome thanks

[@loisseeley5039]

I LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU!! At Last, found someone who has made it simple enough for me to understand a little about wiring. I am so techno-challenged about this it's sad as my ambition certainly does not match my knowledge!! I will be watching this many times so that I can learn how to do it!! Thank you. Just subscribed!!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Hey! You’re awesome!

[@DS-sh5we]

Great vid...very informative...and I especially liked the little Star Trek tension "homage" at the end.

[@OilersWorkshop]

😆🤝

[@LEDewey_MD]

Incredibly helpful video! I've recently gotten into creating resin art, and I'm figuring out ways to light them, and this video was great!

[@OilersWorkshop]

I’m so happy it helped you! I would love to see what you do with lights in resin!

[@rotagilla1481]

I'm just getting into adding LEDs to my projects. I've been researching components and your tutorial has answered a surprising number of my questions.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Soo glad! It’s the result of literally 10+years of floundering around on my own

[@JuJuAleksa]

What a great video! You are a phenomenal teacher, very entertaining and easy to understand. So glad I found your channel - subscribed!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Thank you so much

[@serrathewaz4566]

Thank you, good sir!! So simple, but so thorough- I had no idea where to start with wiring and this just gave me so much peace 😂

[@OilersWorkshop]

Awesome

[@mwinchesterjr6862]

Great Video! The “there are four lights” joke made me laugh out loud.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Lol

[@Mreikimom]

I've been looking for this information for so long. Thank you!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Glad it was helpful!

[@corporaterobotslave400]

Thanks for breaking this down for us non-technical artists. I've been building models for decades sometimes putting mini flashlights or pre-wired christmas light systems in with limited results. Now I've got some Evans Designs gear and some basic understanding because your explanation was so easy to follow [compared to several other wiring videos out there which were dismally bad]. Cheers.

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome and you’re awesome

[@josephcabaddu695]

Thanks for teaching the Basic ...now i can light up my Diorama ..very easy to learn ..

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome!

[@supernova8962]

My first time here and the introduction is AWESOME ...Im a hoarder !!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Welcome aboard!

[@AngelBomb5000]

THANK YOU!!! I am a complete noob when it comes to all of this and your straightforward explanation of wiring, voltage, etc is exactly what I needed! I tried someone else’s tutorial in the past, thought I had calculated the voltage, resistors, etc, bought stuff at radio shack and IMMEDIATELY fried the LED’s. It was so sad and completely ruined my confidence on doing anything like this. But thanks to you, I just may have the courage to try again! 😉But I must ask, why is hot glue the devil??!! 😆

[@OilersWorkshop]

It isn’t really glue, it doesn’t always STAY put and it burns you. It’s awful

[@missylynn9180]

You are a fantastic teacher!!!! I learned so much in just 30 minutes

[@OilersWorkshop]

Wow thanks, and great!

[@SCARYxKITTY]

THANK YOU this tutorial was the most helpful and easy one to follow that i've come across and exactly what I was looking for!

[@OilersWorkshop]

You're very welcome! I have done my job...I must go NOW! lol

[@ciscomonsivais7961]

This video is so simple yet explains so much. Thank you for the information, you helped me out a lot.

[@OilersWorkshop]

You're very welcome!

[@mangef3040]

Thank you for straighten out some ? in my head about led lights and wiring. Have look at many videos on KZbin in this subject and the most of them is just bla bla bla im on KZbin bla bla bla. But when I looked at your video it's more like aha this is how it works do now i will purchase some wires and leds and use in my dioramas. Promise not to burn down our house. Have a great weekend and see you soon on KZbin.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Yes be careful but I agree many of the videos don’t present info to people who don’t know anything about electronics

[@renep5008]

Thanks, now I get it!! An easy and simple explanation for beginners … Awesome! 👍🏼

[@OilersWorkshop]

Glad it was helpful!

[@zeroone5097]

Many thanks , this video has helped me a lot especialy with the understanding of the + & - on the bulb leg

[@OilersWorkshop]

Awesome, I’m glad it helped

[@shadygrey7143]

Thank you, this video was exactly what I needed to know. Very helpful.

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome

[@bigboylittleman]

Thanks a lot Jordan! I gotta say I owe it to you to be able to start wiring (and lighting) my diorama finally. Before that I was at a loss on how to make use of the led circuits I have started hoarding 😅. Now my question is, is it possible for me to wire (from scratch) old LED strips with varying voltages (for the sake of example, say 5 volts), make it a USB type connection that then connects to the wall outlet of 250V? I have been doing research but am afraid it gets more complicated upon each video I watch. I love that you keep things simple enough for electronics noob like myself. Thanks man and I look forward to your advice.

[@OilersWorkshop]

That’s a LOT of steps, I don’t feel qualified to answer that in the comments for you, I would encourage you to keep researching and then in a future I can make a follow up video, but probably won’t be for quite some time though

[@bigboylittleman]

@@OilersWorkshop hey man thanks again! You'd be glad to know I have gotten past the first scary step and finally managed to live-circuit my dioramas, using the principles that you taught 🙂 I now make my own LED circuits from scratch and power them with varying voltages (case by case) and amperage. Man this stuff is addictive! Made me wonder what was I doing during middle school when all this is being taught 😅 Anyhoo, please keep the cool vids and tutorials coming, at your soonest convenience I might add (hope you don'tget too swamped!). We need more like yours.

[@MBuchanan0119]

THATS EASY! I've been planning on wiring up LEDs for my next diorama but have been totally overthinking all of it. Didn't realize it was so simple.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Haha! Glad you enjoyed the video, of all the levels of wiring from 1-100 this is like level 4 😆 but it will get you started

[@elvie9633]

I agree with Lois. I love you. Just subscribed. The lightbulb just went on. It finally makes sense!!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Hey hey! That’s the goal! Light those bulbs!

[@njtree]

Very educational I think that's going to help a lot of people out in the future I'm working on items

[@OilersWorkshop]

Happy it helps, I tried not to make it too complicated, there is ALOT more to learn but this is a good place to start for anyone

[@bobbypierce7608]

Best explanation ive ever seen. Thankyou!

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome

[@phishnetcreativestudio300]

This was very educational! Thanks for showing us this.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bobdylan5705]

I did not realize hot glue was the devil...but thanks for these tutorials!

[@OilersWorkshop]

You are welcome and hot glue is the devil incarnate

[@Rustyrailhead]

Bravo.I model in N scale with a module and need to light up buildings and street lamps and I think I can get it done now after watching your talk. I have these very tiny street lights in 160 scale and really do not want to burn them up.SO as long as I keep the voltage the same, I can run these in parallel with my 2, 1.5 v batteries. whoopy

[@OilersWorkshop]

Don’t up the amps either

[@lori416]

New subscriber here. This video was incredibly helpful because it’s so “basic”. Oh and “there are 4 lights”…I got that…🖖🥰

[@OilersWorkshop]

ALRIGHT!!!!! You’re awesome

[@amandajones6481]

Hi, I just want to say thank you very much for this great video tutorial. I've just started making Book Nooks and Dioramas, but I don't know anything about lighting them up. 😅 I bought a couple of miniature lamps from Temu, and they arrived with 2 wires coming out of them, one red and one black, but I had no idea what they did, or what I was supposed to do with them. 😅 I ended up contacting Evan Designs LEDS because I'd seen a couple of their videos which were really helpful and easy to understand, and I bought 2 of their tiny LEDS and a battery pack with a switch to go with them. I plan on using the LEDS to light up the Book Nook I'm making at the moment, but the box I bought to use as my Book Nook didn't come with any where to put lighting inside it. It's basically just a tall box that I have to glue together, but I don't know where to put the battery pack or how to get the LEDS inside it. I would really appreciate any advice you could give me. Cheers, from Amanda Jones in Melbourne, Australia

[@OilersWorkshop]

Gonna have to get creative, hide it in a mini trunk or under a table or something

[@stop619]

Thanks for the video. This was very helpful, especially the part on switches.

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome I’ll eventually do a follow up video with soldering and more detail down the road, so stick around 😄

[@angelawright8490]

Your explanation was amazing. I Love it and I understand everything. Can I add more Leds on this parallel set? Thank you.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Yeah I mean the more you add the faster the power will get drained from your source if it’s batteries. But if you have them plugged into a wall wort with matching voltage to the LEDs you should be ok

[@briankeys5259]

Very helpful and very easy to understand, how long can you make the stand of LEDs on the first segment?

[@OilersWorkshop]

As long as you want but the more LEDs the faster it’s gonna drain your power source

[@Dimetropteryx]

Very cool video. I prefer christmas lights, they've been the cheapest source of both LEDs and battery packs. The battery packs are so simple to adapt, and often come with handy 6h/18h timers.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Great point! Thanks for sharing

[@erinancientelements]

Thank you for explaining things soooooo well! Amazing video!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Thank you

[@jessicatipton0414]

Thanks for putting out an easy to understand video. I decided to make a dollhouse of my childhood dream for my little girl and found blinking leds for the fireplace I planned to put in clear polymer clay fire in that flickers but no idea how I was gonna make it work now I do

[@OilersWorkshop]

Rock on

[@BLCKNR]

Such a cool tutorial, it's gonna make my life easier.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Wonderful! that was my goal! I've watched thousands of hours of video and made dozens of mistakes so YOU don't have to! LOL

[@t.c.251]

This has been the only video that has actually helped me. Thank you so much. I do have a question though. If I did want to use a larger battery and resistors would that make them last longer. Also, is there a way to wire a lighting system up that plugs into the wall while still using the 3v LEDs?

[@OilersWorkshop]

Larger capacity batteries at the same voltage will make it last longer, like instead of using a AAA battery use a D size battery, it’s bigger but they BOTH put out 1.5 volts. Yes you can get wall worts(power adapters) that are rated to decrease voltage coming out of a wall down to YOUR voltage. You want a power adapter that has an OUTPUT voltage that matches your Setup.

[@t.c.251]

@@OilersWorkshop Ok Cool. Thank you so much

[@magicmeister3209]

Thanks man! U teach me what i want to learn!

[@subconsciousfool]

This video was massively helpful. Can't thank you enough 🙌🙌

[@OilersWorkshop]

You’re welcome

[@Ginal2011]

This is great, thank you. I’m just starting to make shadow boxes, haunted houses and other things that light up and this is very helpful. What are the sockets called that you use on the strip lights (near the end of the video)? Often times I know there’s a “thing” I can use, but I don’t know what it’s called so I don’t know how to search for it.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Glad it was helpful, LED “connector” tape to tape or tape to wire

[@samsami1155]

Jut love how simple you make it. Great master. Please i want to make a lighting on a landing deck for a boat kit ( tamiya CVN-65) keep playing like the real landinf floor in airport. How i can do that?

[@OilersWorkshop]

Look into FIBER OPTIC LIGHTING

[@donnalarson7805]

Thank you so much for this lesson. I've been wanting to know how to do this for so long. Can you make mini lights that plug in? Can you give us a lesson on that. Thanks again, that was great.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Great suggestion!

[@TheCombatartist]

Fantastic job explaining!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Glad it was helpful!

[@trimmin420]

Okay sir this was a lot of verry useful information packed into this video thank you. I am looking for ways to light miniature models that i am making. I know zero about "lighting/wiring/powering" so i am looking for people like you for information. I am trying to figure out how to use wifi to turn lights on and off and how to power it all...

[@OilersWorkshop]

Thank you, the WiFi part may be above my pay grade

[@federicoottavio]

Great tutorial! I have just one doubt.. Can I connect how many LEDs I want to a 3V battery? Of course I think the more LEDs, the quickest the battery will drain out

[@OilersWorkshop]

Yea you are correct so you need to use larger batteries, c size or d size, same voltage but more capacity

[@valentinat6214]

Pardon my ignorance, but I have two questions: how do you know which color is positive regarding wire? Is it always the red? And second question, how do you set up lights so that they flicker, like for a miniature computer hard drive light? And I second the comment someone else said, I’ve learned more from you than from anyone else regarding electricity. You clearly have a gift for both light and teaching!

[@OilersWorkshop]

Regarding wire color It technically doesn’t matter all the wire is fundamentally made the same, it’s just best practice to use 2 colors of wire for the side you use for negative and the side you use for positive simply for your own safety, eyes, and organization. You could use purple wire for positive and yellow for negative if you wanted. But standards are usually black is negative and white or red is positive, for flickering you need a little pre setup board in the circuit. Go to evan designs website, they sell pre wired flickering LEDs

[@camiloaldama2965]

Do you have a video on how to build the monitor screens?

[@OilersWorkshop]

Batcave series part 2 I believe I show pictures and speak about it

[@oxxusthebim]

That was great. Really helped solidify some concepts I’ve been struggling to understand! Re. using LEDs of different voltages in parallel, can you not mitigate that by adding resistors to the circuit?

[@OilersWorkshop]

Yes you can, it’s a matter of sorting out the higher voltage LEDs and strategically placing them down the line of power so that they allow the proper amount of current to flow to the next one. You’ll have to lookup resistors here is a good webpage to start wrapping your head around it www.evilmadscientist.com/2012/resistors-for-leds/

[@oxxusthebim]

@@OilersWorkshop Great, thank you!

[@thetoysurgeon]

Best video to date. I am getting ready to light a 1/144 aircraft carrier. I like the 3v system. How many lights can you put on a 3v battery that is in parallel like you made in the video.

[@OilersWorkshop]

I don’t know the exact number but basically the more lights you have the faster the battery will drain so the higher capacity 3volt battery you go with the better. I don’t claim to be an electronics engineer, I’m just a miniaturist fan ho sorted some helpful information out

[@orianm3043]

Ok I can help but you need more information like the type of led the voltage their rated for also the current they draw it will all depend on that

[@thepursuitofawesomeness]

Thanks this helped me fix the lights on the Falcon couch

[@OilersWorkshop]

Awesome

[@JeusKingGamer18]

Can you make tutorial in series led wiring

[@OilersWorkshop]

Good suggestion, when I catch up my other projects I will try that, maybe summer or fall, thank you

[@Hector-yl1kh]

Thanks for the VID, great for the absolute basics. Some help needed where you don't want to use a battery power supply. In my circumstance, I'm building a PC case mod that will use a SATA cable connection from the PC supply itself providing different voltages for multiple lights of each of the type you showed here. All the different physical sizes (and voltage options) allow for discrete effects with tiny lights to brighter bigger lighting options like lighting a sets of windows in a building. The SATA cable has a 3.3V, 5V and 12V rail that allows all these options but I need help to employ the resistors in the circuit. I know about the online resistor calculator you can use and already have a collection of resistors from other projects. I just want to be sure it will all work. the circuit will be in parallel of course. Any help appreciated.

[@OilersWorkshop]

Sounds like fun! Yeah it’s overwhelming to try and organize what is essentially a wiring harness that needs to send different voltages to different areas from the same source for custom layouts. Maybe explore switchboards or power distribution boards or even boxes that are already pre soldered in place that provide multiple inlets and outlet ports that have the voltage ins and outs already established and the manufacture has already put in the appropriate capacitors and resistors and then you don’t need to worry about even calculating resistance

[@TheDjBreakdown]

Amazing explanation. Subbed just for this vid 😅 Thanks buddy

[@OilersWorkshop]

You rock thanks

[@paulmaybury5700]

I have look at led for my diorama for same time your video bang on may be now i can get them in 1/24 truck thank you

[@OilersWorkshop]

Awesome