# First time WLED through counter lighting
**URL:** https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033
**Category:** Projects
**Created:** [October 10, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033 "2020-10-10T01:14:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Rednecknerd](https://wled.discourse.group/u/Rednecknerd)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033/1 "2020-10-10T01:14:09Z")
This is my first time using WLED. It’s everything I was going to try to do and much more. Perfect for me to be able to hand off to a non-tech person or customer for easy app controlled lighting.
My only issue so far will hopefully be fixed tonight when I tweak and compile it manually. 1500 led limit.
I already had the light board built and installed before I found WLED. The data line is not accessible now that it is installed. I was using an esp8266 with the fast led library and the patterns hard coded during testing so didn’t realize that 3610 leds was going to be a problem.
I have upgraded to an esp32 so don’t expect any problems. I don’t need fast frame rates.!
First time using this many leds, first time doing through lighting a countertop. 5x8 Island. I usually do edge lit acrylic signs.
esp8266 minus a couple of the rows.
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### Author:  [@srg74](https://wled.discourse.group/u/srg74)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033/2 "2020-10-11T13:48:12Z")
Very unusual setup. Question is why do you need more then 1500 LEDs? What is density of your LED strip?
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### Author:  [@Aircoookie](https://wled.discourse.group/u/Aircoookie)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033/3 "2020-10-11T15:12:22Z")
That looks amazing!
What kind of mineral stone is it?
@srg74 i guess that many are needed so that the light appears uniform. And it is easier to lay the LEDs in a matrix layout even beneath the opaque parts.
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### Author:  [@Rednecknerd](https://wled.discourse.group/u/Rednecknerd)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033/4 "2020-10-11T15:24:43Z")
The obvious answer to your question is I have more than 1500 leds. 3610 to be exact.
When I was building it I was testing with an esp8266 using fastled library and all my patterns hard coded. It’s update rate was slow. But still perfect for the project.
I had planned on upgrading to esp32 all along. So wasn’t worried about the web interface eating to many resources. And could always move up to a raspberry pi if needed.
I tried soulmate but wasn’t able to get past a few hurdles fast enough. (all instruction are for a mac and on an older release of espressif ide, that was where I got tripped up.)
But then I discovered WLED project. It is better than what I had planned on trying to build and the only problem I have is the limit on how many leds I can control with one esp. Had I known about WLED and its 1500 led limit in advance I would have build the led matrix where I could get at the data line in multiple places. Hindsight and all that. I learned alot on this project that will be fixed going forward. But none of that helps me know.
All I need to do is up the limit to 3650 in all the appropriate places in the code so I can compile it and load my esp32 up.
I found the 1500 limit and changed it to 3650 in const.h, but apparently their are more locations to change. I am looking for them now and would greatly appreciate any help in this. I am in crunch time to get this done.
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### Author:  [@Aircoookie](https://wled.discourse.group/u/Aircoookie)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033/5 "2020-10-11T15:28:39Z")
> [@Rednecknerd](#):
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> I found the 1500 limit and changed it to 3650 in const.h, but apparently their are more locations to change. I am looking for them now and would greatly appreciate any help in this. I am in crunch time to get this done.
Line 76 in `html_settings.h` 🙂 Good luck, I believe no one has tried that many LEDs before
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### Author:  [@Rednecknerd](https://wled.discourse.group/u/Rednecknerd)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033/6 "2020-10-11T15:28:53Z")
It is a granite top with Quartz mixed in.
The biggest reason for the unseen leds is this is the second slab.
The first broke in transport. So I made it so a third slab would be able to be used.
I am using 60 LED/meter strips. It would have been only slightly harder to wire with only the quartz sections lit. More soldering.
I am loving your WLED so far. So much better than what I had planned in the beggining.
I have spent way to much time fixing a problem. I still don’t have the first two rows lit from that mistake after slab install. but you can really tell unless you know where to look.
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### Author:  [@Rednecknerd](https://wled.discourse.group/u/Rednecknerd)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033/7 "2020-10-11T15:37:17Z")
Awesome! Thank you so much! While this portion has been a little frustrating. I have learned alot.
Compiling now!
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### Author:  [@Rednecknerd](https://wled.discourse.group/u/Rednecknerd)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033/8 "2020-10-11T15:59:39Z")
That did the trick. I will upload the results when I go install the new brain!
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### Author:  [@Rednecknerd](https://wled.discourse.group/u/Rednecknerd)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/first-time-wled-through-counter-lighting/1033/9 "2020-10-14T13:51:19Z")
New brain was installed and it worked beautifully!
Then I hardware killed it again.
But the silver lining is that I now know why my first two rows would not work and it is fixable.
I only took short videos of it working. But I can’t load videos.
After the final fix I will upload to youtube and then can point to that.