8 year outdoor test results of LED sign pixels

Footery (awkward to do). Many of the small 2-pole sockets can be used with LEDs. The tiny JST connectors have a history of being used for panel indicators in older PCs and in some very shady wire frame vase-lights that had strings of series LEDs stuffed in amongst ungrounded metalwork.

Big Clive

It was easy with these ones. They had a fluted pattern that helped with spacing and also with drilling.

Big Clive

I think I'll give it a try. How does one divide up the circumference of a plastic planter? ;>)

Andrew Donaldson

I've never really found a great way to swap out leds like you do with the molex connectors. I just haven't found to right combination to fit all the different styles. So far my best option is a heavier gauge wire and jamming the leads straight in a clean cut. I started off of my custom bulb creations following your designs a few years ago and they are all going strong. I wish someone someone could design a micro wago for easy swaps but I suppose that could get fittery. Fittery? Is that the word? Not sure I hear it right.

Jim

8 years is pretty impressive, considering that you are on the IOM and the weather can be quite ferocious there.

Mike Hughes

They just put up a bunch of those (useless) signs here that light up if youre going too fast. Half the LEDS were gone within a few days

Raven Luni

Just watched the original video. I wonder what happened to the red ones?

John Russell

with smart pixels used in the christmas lighting hobby, it tends to be the control chips that go out. the general advice is to replace the first dead one and the last working one. You can't really tell if its the output of the working one or the input of the dead one, so you just swap out 2.

Kate Cole

Woo!

Michael Thompson

After 8 years outside.. = a pass to me :)

It isn't in the manufacturer's interests to make them easily serviceable. They would much rather sell you a new unit. It's classic built-in obsolesce.

Gadgetman