Electrical Geeks- PCB's

[wesalbert]

Does anyone here make there own Printed Circuit Boards?
I am looking to do something for my LED Christmas lights.

 

[scoobert]

i dabble in LED's what exactly do you want to do. i have been working on making lightbars, but might have some advice.

 

[scoobert]

:elefant: :elefant: :elefant: :elefant: :elefant: :elefant: :elefant:

 

[wesalbert]

Take a look at my website http://www.wesalbert.com and go to the how-to page.
Basically soldering my own RGB LED boards. But thats not what I need to make. I need a simple board to distribute 1 output to lets say 8 lights. Basically a long skiny board, with 4 traces with 9 connectors (molex type or something) all in parrallel

 

[scoobert]

oh.... radio shack has boards... two places i use are....

http://www.theledlight.com/
http://www.futureelectronics.com/en/Pages/index.aspx

 

[scoobert]

http://www.theledlight.com/rgbcolor-controllers.html

 

[wesalbert]

http://www.bigclive.com
Use his boards and solder my own. Last night made the RGB knob kit, the Mini_RGB controller and the Pro_RGB controller.
They go together really quick and they are cheap.

 

[Impulse83]

two ways you can go: photoresist or cnc milled, there are a bunch of companies that will do them for you once you have the schematic (usually better for bulk boards) if your doing one or do better to do them your self: check out jameco.com or digikey.com has the boards and tools....

just search makezine.com or youtube has a bunch of tutorials

 

[wesalbert]

Yea, looks like I will be making my own boards. I have been on youtube and jameco looking at chemicals and boards.
I need like 10 boards. Should make for an interesting weekend project.

 

[scoobert]

i ordered a bunch of leds this week. will post pic when they arrive.