Red Echo

November 23, 2012

192 LEDs in a wire lattice

Making progress on the chandelier for Michael T: one LED matrix finished, six more to go!

2 Comments

  1. Gorgeous work. What wire are you using? Any sort of jig, or just free-standing?

    Comment by MikeG — November 25, 2012 @ 5:28 am

  2. Thank you. I’m happy with the look so far. It is plain, uninsulated 28AWG copper bus wire. I made a jig for the columns: a piece of wood with thin dadoes at regular intervals, wire brads at either side. I drop one LED into each slot, between the pair of brads, then solder down three strips of vertical wire. Once I have twelve such strips, I zip-tie them on to a second “jig”, which is just a vacuum-cleaner extension tube which I’ve covered in masking tape and marked off to indicate where the columns ought to go. Then I make one ring at a time, soldering the wire to one LED at a time and rotating the tube.

    Comment by mars — November 25, 2012 @ 10:52 am