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Title: speaker leds help!
Post by: COD3-BRKR on June 18, 2010, 01:26:06 PM

I have these speakers that you can hook up to anything that has a headphone jack.
Prob: I want sound reactive leds ,but when i solder them it does nothing.
Is there anything im doing wrong ? :help:
(not a newb)

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Title: Re: speaker leds help!
Post by: driftking99 on July 07, 2010, 09:34:37 PM

hey, i did a project similar to that. it works off a 9v with 9 leds 3 rows of 3 parallel leds. and a female jack for headphones and male jack for ipod/mp3. heres a diagram for just male jack running off a 12v. il post up a schematic for the one i did aswell later.
http://hacknmod.com/hack/led-light-box-thumps-to-your-music/ (http://hacknmod.com/hack/led-light-box-thumps-to-your-music/)

Title: Re: speaker leds help!
Post by: Modded Matt on July 08, 2010, 04:38:30 AM

you need to determine what power supply is being provided to the speaker. you may be over/under powering the led which is why it wont light

Title: Re: speaker leds help!
Post by: COD3-BRKR on July 12, 2010, 11:17:55 PM

thanks guys i though it was impossible or somthing.
i will try it now.