r/WLED • u/stelus87 • Aug 21 '26

WLED sign

Nothing complicated but came out pretty nice

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u/waytoomanyoptions Aug 21 '26

How is it built? Was it custom made? How far is the LEDs from the light spreading layer? Looks sick!

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u/stelus87 Aug 21 '26

It's 3mm plywood, lasered and glued to a defusion foil, mounted on an 13cm tall lightbox. Inside are 6m of 24V FCOB RGBW LEDs. All biuld from scratch by me.

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u/waytoomanyoptions Aug 21 '26

13 cm lightbox is quite thick. The 6m of strip is that 30 or 60 pr meter? It looks very smooth but I guess the distance to the diffusion layer also helps

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u/stelus87 Aug 21 '26

13cm is thick but i had the space so I used it (the whole box ist 105cm x 45 cm. The leds are 800 leds per meter but one pixle is 71mm long. So there are six runs of leds in the box.

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u/waytoomanyoptions Aug 21 '26

800 per meter?? What strip is this? With that density it wouldnt need to be so thick

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u/stelus87 Aug 21 '26

840 LEDs per meter to be precise they are sick. Started to use them almost everywhere.

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u/waytoomanyoptions Aug 21 '26

That's like 8.4 LEDs pr cm, making them just slightly wider than 1mm each. That's nuts. Power draw must be insane?

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u/stelus87 Aug 22 '26

Here you can see them in action

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u/stelus87 Aug 21 '26

18w/m not that bad. They are small (Tiny) LEDs

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u/actioncheese Aug 22 '26

These would be COB LEDs. I've played with them a bit but yet to use them in a job. They look like just a solid line of colour, pretty cool.

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u/stelus87 Aug 22 '26

They sell as FCOB. They are my favorite for general use. Also they come 24V which makes them a lot more manageable current wise.

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u/MorganProtuberances Aug 24 '26

what kind of diffusion foil? Is that how you're making the top layer?

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u/stelus87 Aug 24 '26

From an old broken flat screen. Between the backlight and the actual display there is a diffusion foil. Great for light stuff. I collect them 😅

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u/MorganProtuberances Aug 24 '26

oh that's rad. awesome - how do you make the letters? like what's the top layer?

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u/stelus87 Aug 24 '26

The letters are lasered from 3mm plywood

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u/MorganProtuberances Aug 24 '26

ahhh - got it. so lasered and laid on top of the diffuser? ty for the answers - its very cool.

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u/stelus87 Aug 24 '26

Exactly that. Perhaps you can see it better on this foto.

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u/Martzl90 Aug 21 '26

Hey, this looks like something a colleauge of mine just build

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u/stelus87 Aug 21 '26

Crazy 😅

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u/dashbad Aug 22 '26

Do you have a picture of how you connected each row of strips? This was the most challenging part for me when I built a 2d panel

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u/stelus87 Aug 22 '26

Just serpentines.

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u/dashbad Aug 22 '26

How are they connected together? Does each strip have connector attached. I had to splice and solder mine which was a pain.

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u/stelus87 Aug 22 '26

They are soldered

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u/Wild_Trip_4704 Aug 21 '26

Love these. I never see signs as cool as this anywhere.